Line managing your colleagues

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If you get an internal promotion, and then have to line manage staff who were previously your peers, how would you approach this? Am very good friends with them, however realise that being a manager means a more professional and formal relationship. How do I help them through this transition? How do I personally manage it for myself too? Thank you.

Is there anything as a team you've moaned about that you're now in a position to fix? Do you have issues with any of their work? Take it lightly at the start.

They've moaned about lack of 1 to 1s, current manager just has one team meeting with no Personal Development Plans.

I really like the "take lightly" advice cos sometimes I do go in 100% and for various reasons I will be their third manager in a year so they are definitely feeling neglected by the larger organisation, so I need to consider their general wellbeing too. Thank you.

I'd get it out into the open during our first one to one session, as I would with any new line management responsibility - identify possible barriers and how to get around them. I would also identify a plan for if you can't reach agreement on a particular issue (raise it with your own line manager maybe?) also I'd explore their experiences of being managed, what worked well, what they hated, to try to pull that in. Also if you feel you need to out any boundiaries in eg WhatsApp is for non work stuff only etc