Managing a company is a demanding and difficult job. As overseer, you are in charge of the daily running of everything from printers, to security guards, to major meetings with international clients.

Balancing all the things you need to do in a day can become a nightmare job, however, if you've been promoted to the position of manager, chances are you're well equipped to get it done well. For the nervous and the new: adhering to a few straightforward guidelines should get you through the worst of the first week.

To begin with, you need to get your attitude right. A balance between firmness and approachableness is key. You want your employees to respect you, but not to fear you. In order to strike this balance, you will need to ensure that all goals you set for your staff are reasonable and attainable.

Demanding too much from them and using threats and aggressive techniques to exact it will only result in the failure of a project and a decline in your reputation. Another key feature of good management is simply presence.

A lot of managers today spend hardly any time at all in the offices they oversee. If you want the place run in a certain way, it's necessary that you are there to make sure this happens. In short, managing a company is founded on your capacity to administer tasks that are doable and to oversee these in a way that makes employees keen to work. In addition, you should establish connections with your staff by maintaining a regular presence in the office you head up.