Peer Today, Boss Tomorrow: Navigating Your Changing Role

Yesterday you were one of the team. Today, you’re the boss. Now what?

Getting promoted to manager or supervisor should feel like a success—and it is. But when you’re suddenly responsible for leading people who used to be your peers, the transition can be more challenging than expected.

Peer Today, Boss Tomorrow: Navigating Your Changing Role is a practical, straightforward guide for new managers, first-time supervisors, and anyone preparing to move from coworker to leader.

How do you establish authority without alienating former coworkers? What happens to workplace friendships? How do you set new boundaries, earn respect, handle difficult conversations, and hold people accountable when yesterday you were working right alongside them?

This book helps new leaders navigate those challenges with confidence.

Through four practical leadership strategies, you'll learn how to:

• Accept your new leadership role and understand what has changed
• Set clear boundaries with friends and former peers
• Communicate effectively and establish expectations
• Take action when difficult management situations arise
• Build trust and credibility with your team
• Avoid common mistakes made by newly promoted managers
• Balance relationships with your new responsibilities
• Become the kind of leader people genuinely want to follow

Rather than overwhelming new managers with complicated management theory, Peer Today, Boss Tomorrow focuses on real-world situations and practical advice you can use immediately.

It's an ideal resource for anyone who has recently been promoted—or hopes to be—including first-time managers, supervisors, team leaders, frontline leaders, and emerging managers.

It's also an excellent tool for organizations looking for an approachable resource for new-manager training, supervisor development, leadership programs, onboarding, and management development.

The promotion gives you the title. What you do next determines whether people see you as their leader.

Peer Today, Boss Tomorrow will help you make the transition from coworker to boss while building the trust, confidence, and leadership skills you need to succeed.

Laura Elise Bernstein is President and CEO of VisionPoint, Inc. Recognized as a visionary and innovative business executive, her experience includes leadership positions at The Dow Chemical Company, Delta College, AchieveGlobal and American Media. Laura’s 16-plus years of leadership experience are reflected in her contributions to development of award-winning training programs, her reputation as a gifted speaker and master trainer, and in the profound trust she has earned by direct reports, coworkers, clients, and vendors.