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What Great Managers Do
What does it take to make a great manager? Being a great manager
requires being a great leader, you must be a good listener and a good
organizer, but what else is needed?
-Sets a good example for their employees, they set clear expectations and goals for their staff.
-Cares about their staff and sees them as individuals, not just cogs in a machine. Empathy comes into play here.
-Offers staff opportunities to learn and grow
-Is a good motivator to staff
-Is good at communication. This is the key to good management (not to mention knowing your audience.
But what about you as a person, what does it take in a personality
to make a great manager? What qualities can you have that will benefit
your staff and make them want to come to work on a daily basis and put
forth their best effort?
-you should have confidence in yourself as a person and as a worker – confident that you are able to get the job done.
-you are somewhat of an extrovert, while you don’t have to be ‘the
life of the party type’, it is good to be a little bit outgoing. Being
a manager involves being a ‘people person’.
-you are honest because the success of your department or area that
you are managing lies heavily on trust. The trust of your employees in
you as a manager and your trust in them, that will do the task at hand.
-you are consistent in your dealing with your employees, but necessarily rigid.
-you are innovative – you are willing to think outside of the box,
you are willing to take risks and don’t apologize when and if they fail.
Remember, almost anyone can be a manager, but it takes a lot of work to become a great one!
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