Becoming a first time manager means you have no prior experience in a leadership position within an organization. We use the term taking charge to describe the process of learning and taking action that a first time manager undergoes until he/she has mastered their role sufficiently to be able to manage the team and the organization effectively.?
There are several predictable stages to the process of taking charge, each with its own tasks, problems, and dilemmas:?
- Taking hold, the first stage of taking charge, typically sets the tone, if not the direction, for everything that follows.?
- The immersion phase is relatively quiet. It is during immersion that new managers are able to run their organizations in a more informed manner and immerse themselves in a more relaxed and fine-grained learning process than was possible when they were acquiring power.?
- In reshaping, there is a significant burst of activity, and in most cases, it is the largest. Learning continues, but in a more routine and diminished manner. New managers focus their attention on reshaping one or more aspects of the organization in order to implement the concept they developed or made final.?
- As new managers learn and take action during the consolidation phase, much of their effort is devoted to implementing and consolidating the changes they made during the reshaping process.?
- The refinement stage is characterized by little organizational change. It is at this point that first time managers have taken control, and their learning and actions have resulted in the refinement of operations or the identification of new opportunities in the marketplace or in other areas.?
There are a number of factors that determine how first time managers progress through these stages.?
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