How to Manage Your Former Peers After An Internal Promotion

You got promoted, and the people who were at the same level as you now report to you. The relationship you built with them will need to be reset, and how you handle that reset will determine whether your team ends up working with you or around you.In this episode, I decided to take a slightly harder, more political look at managing former peers after an internal promotion. I talk about why being likeable won't be enough to earn their support. How the balance of power has shifted, and why people start managing what they let you see now that you control their pay and their career prospects. I also discuss how to work out what each person actually wants, using what you already know about them from years of sitting alongside them. Office Politics, Unpacked gives senior managers and directors honest guidance on the human side of leadership: influence, visibility, stakeholder dynamics, and the unwritten rules that decide who gets ahead.