YOU CAN NO LONGER DO IT YOURSELF
The moment you become a supervisor, the production work you do yourself becomes secondary to the relationships you build with the people who do most of the actual work. Even though you may be able to do the job better or faster than those who work for you, and even though you would enjoy doing it yourself, you must turn it over to your employees. You must achieve productivity by learning how to direct, train, create, and maintain a motivating environment. You can seldom afford the luxury of doing it yourself. In other words, in terms of production work in the department, you will contribute more by doing less. Here is how the process works.
If you remain an employee, you are primarily responsible for your own ...
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