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Being offered a management position is an honour and a clear responsibility. The daily lives of people around you will be shaped by your actions.
Even before you start, you can optimise. The reason for this is that you will always be an actor in you interactions. You need balance. You need humility. You need bravery. With them, you will not just make your own life better, but those of the people around you.
This is the first few chapters of the textbook. You might skip it because it looks easy or pointless, but if you do, everything subsequent becomes harder.
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The chances are good that, at the end of a hard day, you'll head to the pub with your mates from work and talk about work. You probably won't be talking about whether your code compiled or not - it's likely that you'll talk about people. That new analyst on the 3rd floor that wondered whether the people you can see in Google Maps will start walking around. The pointy-haired boss that's annoying you with pointless requests. And if you do pick on negative things, you might do it surreptitiously.
Everyone else is doing the same thing with theirmates, and they're talking aboutyou.
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What is a mentor exactly?
Experience is valuable. You can gain experience by doing stuff yourself, getting it wrong, and learning. Alternatively, you can just ask someone with more experience. So, a mentor is a someone who guides you as a manager. They're probably older than you. They might have a mentor of their own. You might have a mentee of your own.
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As engineers, we probably hate management buzzwords, and with good reason. Why is that?
Firstly, be aware that because we're engineers, and probably nerds, we love using our own little languages.
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