Today we will speak about how to bring in our positive attributes or habits from our old company and making sure we don’t pick up any bad habits in our new workplace. So bringing the positive and not absorbing the negative! This always starts with a decision from yourself. Honesty and then a decision. Before we decide which good habits to keep or which bad habits not to keep, you need to have clarity on your habits. Be honest with yourself! Unsuccessful people lie to themselves about losing weight, or going to the gym, or any number of other things. Don’t be one of those people! You’re only betraying yourself. I don’t believe in cutting or eliminating bad habits; I believe in replacing them. This works so the body can replace one habit with the other habit. 

"It is not right to behave like an asshole only because you have the corner office."

First, understand what your bad habits is and then replace it with something else. Transitioning to leadership and management, I am a big proponent of friendliness and being nice in the workplace. It is not right to behave like an asshole because you have the corner office. I recommend a simple exercise: every time you cross a door frame at work, stop, slow down and catch your breath. Roll your shoulders and reset your body and the brain follows! The second thing is managerial tools or techniques. You just simply introduce all of your management tools. Many employees complain that they don’t have a specific time to speak to their managers. If I believe, as the new boss, that this can be fixed by having weekly one on one meetings, then I will introduce it.

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"You need to know where the snipers are."

Regarding the team: find out who you will be working with. Find out who the nice people are, who the jerks are, and who wanted your job and didn’t get it! You need to know where the sniper sits, if there is a sniper.

"Do your job and evaluate and streamline the process."

Push through it in the first week and drink a ton of coffee with everyone. Learn to tolerate that things that go on that you don’t understand. Write them down and keep them to yourself for six months. Don’t re-organize the whole shop in the first week! So in essence: get to your job and evaluate the processes. Then when your evaluations are complete, you offer a proposal in order to streamline the process. Change is good, but learn to do it in a smart way!

Stay in lead!OLAF KAPINSKI 🙂