I have a new job

[Gilly]

So I'm leaving my current employer on the 5th August. This is the first time in nearly 18 years that I will have had a new employer. I've moved around within the company and changed roles many times but never to a new employer.

I've been a technical operations manager, and am currently a service architect. I'm going back into technical people management.

I've been given the message that I'll be free to manage my own way in many things. For disciplinaries and grievances and so on, there are clear business processes but for performance management and pay awards and so on I'll be doing my own thing. These are the new elements for me.

My ethos as a technical manager has always been that I work for my teams, even if hierarchically they work for me. My job is to allow them to do their job to the best of their ability whilst keeping an eye on the strategy of the business and aligning our workflows with that.

Any tips?

 

[Gilly]

Thanks for all the good luck wishes folks I don't have any time in between, I finish a week today and start a week on Monday

As long as you stick to this should be fine Nothing worse than a manager who doesn't have his teams interests at heart.

Have their back and look out for them so they can get on with their job

Am also curious as to who you've moved over to if another services type co

Um. Not sure if I should name them right now, but yes it's a competitor of current employer

I'd be surprised if there isn't at least some sort of framework/guidelines to adhere to for performance management and boundaries on pay reviews, unless it is a very small company. To be honest I'd be a bit concerned if a line manager had total autonomy on that side of things and it could lead to me being treated 'unfairly' compared to the rest of company. On the flipside it would at least take away the 'my hands are tied' excuses when pay rises are not large enough (a previous employer had a 5% cap on annual pay reviews for people staying in the same job, excluding counter-offers).

There are frameworks but it's not as prescriptive as the last place

 

[Gilly]

Cheers I did my level best to move internally but there was no appetite to change it.