What to Say When Your Friends Suddenly Report to You — Leadership Development

Leadership development skips the hardest part of the promotion: the first time you have to tell a friend their work isn't good enough.

Friday you were venting about the boss together. Monday you are the boss. The Center for Creative Leadership surveyed 295 first-time managers and found the most-cited challenge, at 59.3%, was adjusting to people management and displaying authority — and 58% got no training for that transition at all. This episode is the script for it: what to say so the standard holds and the friendship survives the promotion.

What you'll learn:

- Why naming the change out loud in a one-on-one beats letting the team read tea leaves

- The first time manager trap of overcorrecting on a friend, and why it punishes loyalty

- How to close the side door so decisions stop getting made at lunch

- Leadership skills for taking the first hard conversation the same day instead of next month

- Team leadership habits that keep the friendship by moving the venue, not ending it

Jason LeDuc's new manager tips and leadership programs are at

https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram

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