Obstacles You May Face as a New Supervisor Assessment and Action Plan
We have surveyed thousands of new supervisors to identify typical problems they have encountered in transitioning from worker (e.g., secretary, maintenance worker, bank teller, police officer, sales person, assessor, nurse, etc.) to first-line supervisor. The sixteen most frequently cited problems are listed below. Please review and rank them from 1 (most important) to 16 (least important) in terms of their difficulty for you as a new first-line supervisor who has transitioned into this position.
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Transition Issues You May Face |
How You Rank Them |
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Dealing with relationships that existed when you and your staff were peers |
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| 2. |
Trying to please everyone. |
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Employees resisting new ideas and change. |
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Being younger than the staff and not being taken seriously because of your age. |
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Changing your viewpoint toward upper management. |
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Coming in from outside the organization. |
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Difficulty in disciplining. |
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Doing the work instead of delegating it. |
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Expecting too much of employees. |
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Carrying out department policy. |
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Personality conflicts among co-workers. |
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Learning supervisory expectations and skills |
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Being able to make decisions. |
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Dealing with difficult employees and situations. |
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Accepting the new role as supervisor. |
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Gaining recognition as a supervisor. |
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ACTION PLAN
Now that you have identified your top three issues, what steps do you plan to take to successfully deal with them and remove them as obstacles which can hamper your effectiveness as a first-line supervisor?
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