Whether your new position is external at a new organization, or an internal move; following your successful application and interview, you are likely to have a settling in or transition plan. This plan will be agreed between you and your hiring manager, with the primary purpose of the plan being to set expectations and a reasonable timescale for you to familiarize and truly establish yourself in your new job and environment.
One of the first steps – if not the very first step – will be to clarify what your new managerial role really means. This might sound strange because you've just been through an application and interview process, where you were asked specific questions to ascertain how you would perform as a manager. However, there is another level of detail that needs to be worked out. Unsurprisingly perhaps, in quite a lot of cases,...