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<p>An average manager plays checkers, while great managers play chess. What type are you, a checkers or chess manager?</p>
What do Great Managers do within a group?
A great manager :
· leads from the front and by example and walks the talk.
· demonstrates his competence at every opportunity.
· does not assume that he is visible but actually ensures that it is true.
· ensures that staff know both their role and its importance. Encourages to use their own initiative whenever possible.
· Plans well, is organized and is excellent at follow-up and delegates work diligently.
· Encourages staff to achieve high but achievable targets Pushes them to perform better.
· shows respect to his staff and in turn commands respect.
· is highly motivated and provides motivation stimulus to his teams. He understands different people are motivated in different ways. He works to eliminate or reduce workplace demotivation
· is able to read the behaviour of individuals in his team. He has learnt to see the difference between work problems and personal ones
· is a sincere mentor and develops people under him or her.
· is unbiased and honest
· maintains eye contact whenever he speaks to his team.
· He has unquestionable integrity.
· Is an excellent communicator.
· He understands the needs of his staff and makes genuine efforts to fulfil them. He supports them.
· Is able to measure work place morale
· Encourages staff in decision making.
· He delegates work and monitors progress and praises work well done. Is firm when drawing attention to errors. Makes use of positive elements of each person
· Is aware of office politics and sets an example by never taking part himself / herself
· By finding root causes of repeated complaints he ensures staff cooperation
· Considers ideas from staff at all levels of seniority
· Confronts trouble makers as he becomes aware of their presence.
· Takes the chance to improve himself or herself by asking staff to appraise him or her too.
· Keeps providing training in regular doses than in one long course. Follows-up on any courses and check their quality and staff response . Encourages staff to enrol for regular training to pave the way for future success. Gives opportunities to staff to utilise newly acquired knowledge and skills
· Pays staff for their responsibility and contribution and not for seniority and status. Efficiently controls costs. gives performance related rewards and not just pay rises wherever possible. Uses certificates and engraved presents as reminders of high achievements.
· Takes every chance to preach quality and practice improvement
Some managers under my leadership were endowed with some of the above traits if not all. Collectively the team made up for each other’s short comings and the overall result was more than satisfactory and well above the set targets.
Great Managers Lead, Motivate, Inspire, Mentor, Guide,Steer, Listen, Sympathise, Discipline, Counsel, in a word they MANAGE. My own particular ethos was to use the "carrot" method of management but I was prepared to use the "stick" if I thought someone was trying to take advantage of my more "laid back" approach!!
Inspire them.
Inspiration is the first and most important factor for motivation.
Develop their people
Take full responsibilities of the team
Inspire and encourage
Respect and treat everyone equal
Inspire the team
They are approachable
They safeguard the pawn with king's and knights support, Make use of Bishop and Minister for Defense and move forward, Make meaningful Castling to Safeguard their King, Challenge the opponent with supportive rooks, Unit together to Conquer and success. I meant brain exercise by Great managers.
Great Managers Play Chess
Great managers capitalize on each person’s unique qualities. In checkers all the pieces move the same way, but in chess there are different pieces that move in different ways. Great managers discover what makes each person unique and then takes steps to leverage each person’s unique talents for their group.
Top Five Tasks of a Great Manager
Work is broken down into work centers or groups that are led by a manager of that group.
A manager’s job is to “get the work done” but not necessarily do the work.
Here are the top five tasks of a Great manager.
1.Set Priorities
2.Organize Work
3.Communicate
4.Measure Performance
5.Develop their People
They turn one person’s particular talent into performance.
Great managers create career development urge in team, the appropriate move in this regard would be "suggesting a pattern of career mapping with three core attributes i.e. Achievements, Innovation and Professional development. This will lead team fellows to contribute exceptional performance and even they seem completing tough tasks as well.
Another most important point is, the Manager needs to work on self-development particularly for crisis management being calm and composed, as most of the times team/team fellows look forward to having this attention and prompt support from his/her leader, the Manager.
Great managers demonstrate and play a Leadership role actively with clear vision and direct his team to ensure NOT to let down the organisation and hold the reputation of the Group constructively and jointly.
Supporting the team in achieving the Organizational Objectives.