<div style='width:100%;  clear:both;'>It's especially rewarding to teach and coach new managers.  We help them get past the initial fears and focus on the steps necessary to success.  We look at the common pitfalls of inexperienced bosses -- and offer them specific advice.

<a href="http://whatgreatbossesknow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/fb16.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-34" title="New Managers" alt="" src="http://whatgreatbossesknow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/fb16-300x214.jpg" width="300" height="214" /></a>

<strong>Take a look at <a href="http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/leadership-management/what-great-bosses-know/118247/what-great-bosses-know-about-6-tips-for-new-managers/">6 Tips for New Managers</a>, part of our "What Great Bosses Know" series of columns and podcasts on Poynter.org.</strong></div><div style='width:100%;  clear:both;'>It's especially rewarding to teach and coach new managers.  We help them get past the initial fears and focus on the steps necessary to success.  We look at the common pitfalls of inexperienced bosses -- and offer them specific advice.

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<strong>Take a look at <a href="http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/leadership-management/what-great-bosses-know/118247/what-great-bosses-know-about-6-tips-for-new-managers/">6 Tips for New Managers</a>, part of our "What Great Bosses Know" series of columns and podcasts on Poynter.org.</strong></div>{"id":37,"date":"2011-02-16T23:49:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T06:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2013-02-13T20:57:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T03:57:50","slug":"6-tips-for-new-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"6 Tips for New Managers"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fb16.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatgreatbossesknow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}