What shifts when you become a manager for the first time

“The biggest change after I moved into the new role was that I no longer spent my time in the field and with communities the way I used to. There were meetings, planning, review calls, reporting, and the responsibility of taking the team along. At that time, I had no idea how to manage all of this at once.

Sometimes it felt like the whole day had gone by, but I had not actually done anything.” This is how Biraj Krishna Upadhyay, Senior Manager at Network for Youth Development and Healthy Environment (NYDHEE), recalls becoming a manager for the first time. If you have recently become a…