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Personally, getting a promotion gave me anxiety. Don't get me wrong, I was grateful for the new position. With my promotion came not only a raise, but more responsibilities and new tasks that I never thought I'd be capable of doing. Becoming an administrative manager from being a server was a big change for me. I was comfortable with being able to clock in and out only having to deal with customers. Now, I don't only deal with customers, I deal with all of the employees. I struggled with doing the inventory and being responsible with the food order. How many cases of ranch should I order? How many shredded lettuce bags do we run through a day? Maybe I can be faster in placing the order? Thankfully, I have a really good general manager who kept me motivated and positive when I let the stress get to me. She taught me her tricks and her ways of remembering certain food units and how I can properly read the labels in case I did forget. I focused in giving myself short term goals. For example, if I made a mistake on the inventory and counted ranch by the case instead of individual bags, I'd make sure the next time I did inventory I'd count by the bags. I made sure I stayed persistent in order to ensure I wouldn't make the same mistake twice. Once I got the inventory and food order down, I was excited to learn to do the invoices. My next step is to get promoted to being the assistant general manager.

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Answer 1

One of the most important factors is that as one grows one need to take-up more challenging responsibilities because life is a long journey and there is more to learn and experience. People are the biggest resources one may have in one’s life in terms of encouragement, support, comfort, guidance etc. It would be always helpful if one learns to widen one’s people network because they would be the one’s who would provide us with vital information and help us when we get stuck. Secondly, one would always fear doing something new and it would take time for one to get used to the new ways of doing things because one need to unlearn in order to learn something new while some knowledge could be built on the previous learning. This would mean that one need to be enthusiastic enough to learn and do new things. I have always wanted to take-up challenging tasks because it would bring us to the attention of our superiors who would recognize and help us improve in order to take-up more challenging tasks in the future.

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