Hi Everyone,
My venue has just gone through a change of ownership and, seemingly with change comes a whole lot of negativity, especially with what direction the new owner wants to take venue.
My biggest questions is
How does one deal with staff who not deal well with the change?
Any suggestions, books, reading material to help with this situations, as the only person who I report to is the owner and all I have is guidelines to run on.
Thank you
Bill
Wow, that sounds like a tough start to your new job, but congratlations on your promotion!!!!
I don't really have any recommendations on books and things like that but I would say two things:
1) The best way to bring the other staff on board is to do your job as well as you can and help them do theirs as well as they can. It sounds cheesy but it will hopefully earn you a bit of respect if they are not showing it now. Sounds like you will have to lead by example.
2) Don't be too sure that the other members of the management team don't like the fact you have been promoted. How do you know that? You may just think that's what they think. If it's a big step up for you, are you sure you are not just expecting them to think that way? Even if they do think that, don't worry. Once again, just do your best in this job and hopefully your efforts will go some way to proving the doubters wrong.
You obviously deserve to be where you are otherwise you wouldn't have been promoted. Good luck!
Thank you for the reply
Well,
That is exactly what I am doing at the moment. Being the change that I want and putting in as much effort as possible. Perhaps its a cheesy approach, but I like the lead by example concept and lets hope it works, otherwise try try and try again and finally come up with an approach that works.
As for my managers, well, I am 90% certain that they wish they got the promotion, not because they deserve it, but because of the money. Yes I know, money is a great if not the best motivator. In my defense I would say that i do what i do because I love this industry, and any perks I get out of it is because my hard work paid off.
Lets hope I can get to where I need to be with running the shop besides, nobody said it was gonna be easy.
If anyone has any reading material on anything related to my post then feel free to contact me.
Regards
Try a good old fashioned team building activity, not one of those cheese filled ones that involves group hugs and trust falls but a "bus trip" maybe pizza beer and a comedy show. People like to be shown they are valued, trusted and respected. Take the staff on pre Christmas drinks to say hey its going to be flat out and we respect that and leave them with the promise of a big old new years blow out and you will find the troops will be ready for the tour of duty on wont be playing toss the grenade at your fox hole...
All the best in your job, keep us up dated...
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