Most advice for new managers focuses on whether you are ready. Far less attention goes to whether the role is set up for you to succeed. Before you accept a promotion into management, the conversation should run both ways. These are seven
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Mercy was the most accurate senior auditor in her firm. Partners asked for her by name. When she was promoted to Audit Manager, she kept reviewing every working paper herself, rewriting her team’s findings late at night. Within a year her team
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Otieno is a Head of Supply Chain with 15 years of experience. His LinkedIn inbox is busy: a “Procurement Officer” role, an insurance sales opportunity, two network-marketing invitations and a recruiter asking if he would consider a Supply Chain Coordinator position. Not
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Wanjiru has spent six years as Finance Manager. She sits on the executive committee, leads the budget for a business with three subsidiaries and presents to the board every quarter. Her CV says she “manages the finance team and prepares monthly reports”.
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Nelson was the best sales executive in his company for three years running. So when the Sales Manager role opened, nobody was surprised when he got it. Eight months later, his team had missed target twice, two of his strongest people had
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Rose had been Head of Customer Experience for 6 years when her role was eliminated in a restructure. She spent the first three weeks sending her old CV to every vacancy she saw. Nothing came back and her confidence dropped with every
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Mercy, an HR Manager with 11 years of experience, spent months scrolling job boards that were full of entry-level remote roles and scams. She assumed senior remote work was rare. It is not. It is just found in different places and won
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Nafula reached the interview stage for an INGO Country Programme Manager role. She knew the STAR method. She still did not get the job. Her answers had a Situation, a Task, an Action and a Result — but the panel could not
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Charles is a CFO with 18 years of experience. His LinkedIn headline read: ‘CFO at [Company]’. When a headhunter searched for ‘CFO, East Africa, manufacturing, IFRS’, Charles did not appear on the first five pages of results. The Most Valuable Line on
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Paul is a General Manager with 19 years of experience. When the panel asked him to tell them about himself, he spoke for 7 minutes, starting with his first job in 2006. By the time he reached his current role, two panel
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