You wanted more responsibility and now you’ve got it. It may feel frightening at first but you’ll rise to the occasion of yourself.
Don’t try reasoning with people collectively. You don’t do well in group situations. Take each aside one by one and you’ll turn them around to your way of thinking.
A shift in the balance of power puts you in charge. This is your chance to be the role model you wished that you had had.
A colleague gets aggressive and your reaction is to put him in his place. Don’t. Nothing compares to the damage that this person is doing to himself.
You know you’ll be vindicated, but that still doesn’t make you happy about the bad feelings. Remember that feelings change; principles don’t.
Are people dead-set on challenging you? Perhaps. But the constant provocation gets you to finally exercise the authority you’ve kept under wraps.
