Hi everyone, I just wanted to know your thoughts about this dilemma that I have with a coworker. Personally I think that there’s nothing wrong to being new to the role. Me and a colleague recently transitioned to role in which we are handling a team together. As their leader, I am expected to act and be a great leader figure and of course good with the responsibility that I have.

I have no problems with my performance to the team and how I handle them. My supervisor has this huddle session with my team excluding me just for the team under me to be comfortable in providing any feedbacks about me whether positive or negative. Of course those feedbacks are also discussed to me by my supervisor for my leadership improvements. The feedbacks received are great and positive. The only passive feedback that I received is about how fast I talk and they sometimes they couldn’t catch up with my pacing but then they told me that it’s great that I ask them if I’m talking too fast for me to repeat it in a slower pace and made sure they understand what I said.

Our team acknowledged and knows that we are new to the role. Stepping up means that you get to have access to more information about the intellectual properties of the company that lower positions don’t have. I have this senior with the same roles and responsibilities as I am. Since accesses are being granted by the company and needs to be process for a period of time. I got my access earlier than my colleage/co-team leader.

There is this senior who casually visits our team to check in with what we are doing or what’s going on with our team. One day when I was talking with my co-team leader about the plans we have for the team, this senior butts in and berated me for casually saying that my co-team leader still has no access because we are still new to the role. Apparently, this senior don’t want to let the team under us to hear that we are still ‘new to the role’ because it will lessen the level of perception that our team has on us. I didn’t say it so loud for everyone to hear just a normal conversation between me and my co-team leader.

What I want to know is if it really will affect our teams perception of us upon hearing that we are knew to the role, when in fact they already knew when we introduced ourselves to the team. Again I personally believe that there’s nothing wrong with being new to the role. This senior berated me as if what I’m doing is so wrong, well maybe I’m wrong but what do you guys think?