With the joy of getting a promotion, comes the tension of how things can change around the work place. However, if you keep a level head, there is no reason for any imbalance in your relations with colleagues to take place due to your getting a senior status at the office. If you apply our true and tried advice on handling a promotion, you are likely to maintain both work place position and also enjoy the respect of co-workers. So, read on and apply these tips to your work-life and enjoy the fruit of your labor without any resentment from colleagues:

Firstly, it pays to remember the responsibility that goes with a new work status. You may have got a fatter paycheck and greater progress chances, but with the ego boost comes envy of colleagues. Avoid this by still laughing and joking with co-workers and team mates much like you did before your raise.

A promotion is actually important in any office environment so if you’ve got one, do not forget to try and remain the same person you were before the raise: e.g. maintain the same rapport and interaction with old coworkers in the office to avoid offending anyone.

Also remember if you are supervising those you worked with before, do not boss over them but lighten the work atmosphere with some polite, small talk about family or work issues and avoid talking about the promotion. Be cool when asked about it, not boastful or falsely modest, as this can be off-putting too.

Your honest and humble demeanor after a promotion will only win you more friends and respect from colleagues if you can show you’re not overly influenced by the fancy title and bigger pay; keeping communication channels open with ex-team mates will help avoid clumsiness in social and official interaction and also foster better understanding of a mature manager, so do follow respect for others from the first day.

These tips will help you fit a new job role perfectly. Finally, its prudent to observe your seniors and how they handle teams; then apply their best techniques to your new job and treat all your prior team-mates in a similar manner.