An internal position has come up, a manager role. It's within the same wider department, but a different team to my own, so I would remain working with the same people overall.
I'm excited to be given the opportunity to interview, but feeling nervous of course. I have had a managerial/head of department role before, but not with as many direct reports, and it was in a very different organisation set up, as a result the responsibility levels were much less. I feel like many questions I would receive would be centred around hypothetical "what I plan to do" rather than actual what I have done.
I keep flip flopping between feeling confident (I know the team, I know the broader goals the depareny wants to achieve, I have ideas on how to move towards those, I want to be the type of leader they are looking for (relationships focused, high support/high challenge, etc)). I have good relationships with people at work, I was recommended to apply by the hiring manager (head of dept).
But last night I was putting together a presentation and felt completely overwhelmed, who do I think I am etc. I need a 60/90/120 day plan, I need clear goals I want to achieve for the team, and I just feel like I'm play acting at all this and I'll be grilled to death in the interview and start crying.
I find interviews much less scary if I don't know the people, but if I fail at this I still have to work with everyone and keep smiling. Ugh.
I'm rambling. I really want to be a good manager, the team has experienced a lot of internal movement in recent times and I want to create stability, I want them to be supported to grow professionally and I want to strengthen relationships across the team, who are spread geographically as well.
Please send me advice and well wishes. 😬😬😬