If you stay around long enough in an organization, you will find yourself moved to management. This is not a bad thing. Managers have responsibility. They can direct resources to meet needs and to move toward the accomplishment of goals. Managers do more than deal with money, space, and materials, however. They must deal with people When you become a manager, you will have people on your team who report to you. You are expected to be their supervisor. If you look up the word “supervision” in a dictionary, you will find synonyms such as “control,” “regulation,” and “govern.” This reflects one particular approach to being a supervisor, but I suggest that you consider a different paradigm. What if you saw yourself as a coach rather than a supervisor? Both coaches and supervisors are leaders, but they take a different approach to their responsibilities. The synonyms that go with coach are “teacher,” “trainer,” “educato...
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