Your first manager will teach you how to lead or how not to. Either way, take notes.

Either version of that is an education, as long as you are paying attention. A good one shows you what it looks like when somebody is clear, backs their staff and deals with a problem directly. A bad one shows you how it feels to be on the end of favouritism, vagueness or blame, which you will not want to repeat.

Keep an actual list this year, with two columns, and add to it when something lands well or badly. Write down what they did, not just how it felt. In a few years you will be somebody’s first manager.