The promotion nobody prepares you for
You get promoted because your work won things. Then the job changes completely and the skill that got you there — doing it yourself, brilliantly — becomes the thing you have to stop doing.
Almost nobody gets management training on the way up. The assumption is that craft judgement converts into people judgement. It does not.
The first habit to break
Rewriting someone's work so it matches how you would have done it. It is fast, it feels like quality control, and it teaches the team that their judgement does not count.
The alternative is slower and works: say what the piece needs to achieve, let them solve it, and only intervene when the outcome is genuinely at risk.
What good looks like in practice
Protected one-to-ones that do not get cancelled for a deadline. If they always get cancelled, the deadline is not the problem, the staffing is.
Direct feedback given early rather than gentle feedback given late. Creatives can handle a hard note; what they cannot handle is finding out in the final review.
Explicit credit. Name who did what, publicly. It costs nothing and it is the single cheapest retention tool available.