[scewDeasp]

Okay...

I am cruising along comfortably here at work in my newly promoted position as Team Leader (Desktop Publishing and Graphic Design). Have had this position for a month and have been rather enjoying it.

But...

here's what I have noticed:

• People no longer treat you as one of them
• Everything you say or do they deliberately assume you are there just to piss them off
• Unlike before where everyone was civil, you now ask for help and when they do help you they act like utter tools becuase apparently I'm no longer in a position where I should ask for help (the whole, "we'll you're a big shot now, figure it out yourself" mentality)
• When someone needs help, you give them a solution and they never fully appreciate it (because let's face it, it kills them to have to ask me for some reason)
• You make suggestions and they assume you are pointing out their flaws rather then providing options
• Nobody really likes you

...thankfully not everyone is like this. Most of the people who are still developing their skills are appreciative of guidance. It's the ******s who think they are gods gift to designers that can't hack constructive feedback. Although I did shut a lot of them up when I came back and told then that none of them were using a proper native resolution on their LCD monitors (when they kept whinging that their imagery was no WYSIWYG enough).

It's no wonder people in positions like this become jerks... but I refuse to go down that road. It's probably a teething process and a matter of earning the team's respect. I just never expect such a change in the people I used to get along with so well.

People are so fickle!!

[hiedeemom]

Ive had experiance in low-mid level management. I found it was best to treat everyone as equal to you/your authority, ie. asking them for their help instead of ordering directions, people normally notice this and respect it. It's only when they take advantage of this approach would i treat them different and apply a more assertive approach.

However, having said that, I would imagine there would be added difficulties in a creative environment such as the OP's where personal opinion's play a more significant part of the professional environment.

[SzefciuCba]

So where's the "cop ****"?[thumbdown]

[intisgunkas]

"Cop" here means "to pick up" or "be given", not as in "an armed, uniformed member of the law-upholding establishment".

[scewDeasp]

Ive had experiance in low-mid level management. I found it was best to treat everyone as equal to you/your authority, ie. asking them for their help instead of ordering directions, people normally notice this and respect it. It's only when they take advantage of this approach would i treat them different and apply a more assertive approach.

However, having said that, I would imagine there would be added difficulties in a creative environment such as the OP's where personal opinion's play a more significant part of the professional environment.

I agree, hence why I do approach it with a positive attitude, never putting myself above anyone. So usually, I offer guidance, more than ordering about.

For example, if something is not done to the best of someone's ability, instead of saying "That's terrible" I say "why don't we try another way and see how it looks then?". I never really try and tell someone what they should be doing, rather, I say that if something does not work, user their imagination to apporach it differently.

It is hard in this particular field because a lot of it is based on personal taste, and so it's hard to provide feedback that people are not going to act upon defensively or as an attack on their personal judgements.

I guess it just a process of everyone getting used to changes. All I can do it keep doing my best and hopefully ditch this 'big-shot' stigma.

[clubcughSheet]

Everybody hates bosses.

[alenbarbaf]

Yup, welcome to management. I have operational control over two staff members in my office, although "offfically" they report to the office manager.

I'm also responsible for 50 contractors working at my client site.

Thats an aweful lot of stress I can assure you. I've come to realise very quickly that its impossible to please everyone all of the time.

When my old boss used to do the job I do now, I used the think "what does he do all day?, that looks so easy". Now I am doing the job, I've never worked so hard in my life, its crazy.

[Biassasecumma]

It's resentment, pure and simple, because you got the promotion and not them. This is extremely common and the primary reason most larger businesses will promote from other departments or locations, if they have an internal promotion policy.