how do you get over feeling like an impostor as a new manager I feel like I’m about to get found out welcome to leadership here’s the thing here’s what you’re actually scared of what you’re scared of most likely is them knowing and finding out that you don’t know everything right right that’s what people don’t like to admit when they’re wrong yeah yes and the thing that you need to know is it’s okay it’s okay not to know everything it’s perfectly normal to be in a leadership position and not know everything in the world you don’t have to know everything about this particular job that you’re going into or what you don’t need to know everything you don’t need to what you need to do is go in ask questions listen to people and say ain’t no what I have done this procedure before I’ve never I never worked with this piece of equipment before can you show can you walk me through it you show me how to do it mm-hmm I just want to make sure I understand what you’re doing make sure I get it oh okay now it’s not an excuse to not know anything because if you’re in a leadership position you should be studying and reading and learning about whatever the role you’re in that you can understand it all study the manuals and the regulations and the procedures and I’m not saying to follow all those things blindly without common sense no that’s not what I’m saying but there’s a knowledge base that you should you should acquire very quickly when you roll into a leadership position so put the work in and then apply common sense but this is the same thing that I say every time somebody asked me about how do you lead this or how do you lead that or how do you lead new people or how do you leave senior people it’s the same answer every time be humble hmm listen to them beyond time work hard treat people with respect weigh the decisions carefully talk to people and then make a good decision empower your folks to lead don’t micromanage them but give them at the same time clear guidance about what the expectations are it’s just leadership and when you’re a new leader it’s all good you don’t need to know everything you’re not expected to know everything and showing that you could admit that you don’t know everything isn’t gonna hurt your reputation it’s actually gonna help your reputation so go in be humble ask some good questions learn as fast as you can and it’s okay and you know I was thinking about this um in the 80s and perhaps even in the 90s when guys were losing their hair and going bald right they do a comb-over mm-hmm so they try and pull their hair over their balding scalp so it didn’t look like they were going bald right and I’m telling you as a leader don’t do a leadership comb-over yeah and what guys do now which is they just shave their head right okay good you know what I’m going to get up top all good just gonna shave it off hey I’m your new leader don’t know everything it’s all good you know here’s where here’s where I’m weak give me a hand yeah no big deal that’s a good analogy don’t do the leadership comb-over what tell me if you would agree with this it generally speaking um emotionally demolition man with the best alone Wesley Snipes negative anyway Dennis these names Denis Leary it doesn’t seem like your kind of movie but maybe it was would be I don’t know anyway Denis Leary he’s this kind of underground rebel because basically la is a long explanation okay I’m ready so I’m all about leadership basically the you know it’s in the future whatever and the world is turning into this like over sensitized like you can’t swear he can’t eat junk food it’s the law like you know so everyone’s all nice and real weak and stuff like that but there’s a guru who rebelled against it went underground right and the leader of those guys is called egg Edgar friendly right and so they go down and he’s regarded as this huge criminal right the demolition comes back long story about him but anyway he’s back to help rid the world of these criminals so he goes any encounters Edgar friendly and they’re not Ravel they’re not these evil people they’re just like just trying to live basically a freedom a free life you know and they’re like oh he’s like hey well why don’t you lead these people out of here right and he’s like I’m the leader sometimes I gotta do some shit and people come with me right that’s kind of what he says so isn’t this his so here’s the question sorry for long explanation how this guy’s he’s kind of like worried about people finding him out that he’s not a leader right isn’t that like a huge sign of humility that he’s like on the inside he’s not yeah I know what everything you don’t like that I don’t know at all you know and I’m worried about this it’s actually a good sign you are correct yes a good sign when you got someone’s neck man I want to do he wants to do a good job he wants do a good job and he said worried about it so that’s that is good that is a good thing yeah it’s like his humility is like is so genuine that that’s one of his many worries of being a leader you know it’s a good sign it’s better than someone says you know what I’m about to take over as a new leader yeah I’m on this end I’m good I know everything and no one knows anything that I know so it’s gonna right yeah you don’t be that guy
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