Most employers would have you wait for a long time before you have your first management experience.
Good news – you don’t have to wait. Just pick a side project this weekend, build a team and manage.
Sure, it’ll be different from managing a team at work but the lessons would be more interesting and probably deeper because you won’t have institutional authority. You might just have to *gasp* lead.
PS: If you don’t manage to find a team, it’s a great opportunity to test your leadership skills on yourself. That’s where it always begins..
A Learning a Day 