Kit Barber explains why newly promoted managers panic: they're high performers thrown into a role they never trained for, so they avoid conversations and redo work instead of leading. A concrete 90-day plan separates those who survive the transition from those who struggle.
I had a drink with someone last week, few months into managing a team. Second drink in, he goes quiet. He says, 'Can I tell you something I've not told anyone?' I knew what it was before he said it. 'I'm just hoping nobody asks me something I can't answer.' And here's the thing, that doesn't make you a fraud. It makes you completely normal. The trap is simple. You're brilliant at your actual job, so they promoted you out of it, and the new job is a totally different job that nobody bothered to teach you. So you avoid the awkward conversation. You redo someone's work at midnight because it's quicker than explaining it. You stay stuck in the doing because the doing is the bit that you're sure of. The managers climbed out of that aren't cleverer than you. They just had a plan for the first 90 days instead of guessing their way through it. That plan is a course now. It's 8 short modules, a workbook, me walking you through all of it. It's £99, it's one payment, and then it's done. The link is below. Stop guessing.
