BouncyPotato
BouncyPotato
Student

Managing older employees in your team

As a young 22-23 year old working as area sales manager (ASM) how do you handle older employees who’re not ready to accept you as a manager?

26mo ago
Talking product sense with Ridhi
9 min AI interview5 questions
Round 1 by Grapevine
DizzyMuffin
DizzyMuffin

This will be tough. Be kind yet firm with them. They’ll fall in line eventually, or trip over and commit an offence enough to be escorted out the door.

You be you, and do your thing.

BouncyPotato
BouncyPotato
Student26mo

Thanks :)

BubblyBoba
BubblyBoba
Anthem26mo

Lead the sales calls either through product knowledge or general sales skills, until unless you contribute in their closures & add value , commanding respect would be extremely tough!

JumpyWalrus
JumpyWalrus

You need to command respect from such folks, Figure out few things at work that you can help them with and you’ll win their loyalty.

BouncyPotato
BouncyPotato
Student26mo

Got it, thanks

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