Key points

A change in your work role, particularly a promotion, often necessitates a change in your identity.

Identity blindspots can occur when your identity and your work role are not fully aligned.

An adjustment period is key for navigating the identity shift and determining if the new role is a good fit.

After years of sharpening your skills, attending to company priorities, and achieving stellar results, you’ve received the promotion to manager that had long been in your sights. Now you can lead that tight band of your former peers, and together you all can be rock stars.

That’s the plan, anyway, but it rarely works out quite that perfectly; sometimes, it doesn’t work out at all. And when that happens, often what we don’t see is that our identities subtly sabotage us.

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