Your first leadership role will expose every habit you’ve been hiding. Good. Now you can fix them.

Being responsible for other people removes the places where your habits used to hide. Late replies, vague instructions, avoiding hard conversations: none of those cost much when only you are affected, and all of them become visible immediately when a group depends on you. Exposure feels bad and it is the only way to see the pattern clearly. You cannot repair something you never had to notice.

Ask one person you lead what would make your part easier for them. Take the answer without defending yourself, and change one specific thing. Check back in two weeks to find out whether it actually helped.