How To Be A Great Manager

Creating My Own Management/Leadership Training

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I have been with my company for about 10 months now. I was hired in November 2020 as the first (and only) Managing Editor to build a team of contractors/freelancers for content.

My company is a startup and I was employee number 6 or 7, depending on who you ask.

Now we are up to almost 30 people and steadily growing!

In the intervening time, I built the HELL out of my contract writer team. I went from 1 writer who was already working with them doing about 10 posts per month to 19 writers producing 150+ articles per month. I hit 150 by June.

I’ve loved building the team and have enjoyed and embraced the challenge.

As startups so often do, things are changing.

Now, we are moving away from high-volume contractor content and into high-quality, data-driven content from internal full-time staff writers. It’s fewer posts per month by a lonnnnnnnng shot, but it’s compelling and interesting and deep content.

With this new direction, I was offered a promotion to Content Manager to manage all output for our top-performing site.

I eagerly accepted.