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Delegating The Right Way
Posted by: | CommentsDo you want to finish tasks faster?
Do you want more free time?
Do you want to lessen your load?
Then start delegating.
It’s time to trust people that they can also do a good job.
It’s time you start distributing responsibilities and make others accountable too.
It’s time to let other people help you.
Effective Managers Manage Their Boss
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This may seem like an odd statement, but managers need managing by their team, just as the team needs an effective manager.
Have you ever worked for someone whom you found difficult, unfathomable and intractable?
Of course you have.
We all have.
People are not born great effective managers – they learn to become one with time, effort and experience. It’s a sad fact that some people who get promoted to senior positions will simply not have the right skills to be great at their job. Many people get promoted based on their product or sales knowledge, but can be lacking in the social skills department.
How To Delegate Successfully
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All of us as managers have struggled with the prospect of how to delegate.
The idea of handing over important, time-critical and high-visibility work to people on your team fills most of us with a feeling of dread. We each of us believe that we are the only person who can undertake a task as well as it should be done, and most managers do not have the luxury of having a number of outstanding people on their team who they know will deliver a project as well, or better, than they could themselves.
Are Meetings Passé In Today’s Business Environment?
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Mention the word ‘meeting’ to most managers, and you’ll be met with an audible sigh of misery.
They may be the cornerstone of any successful business, but running meetings often fills people with dread at the thought of the bickering, unproductive time spent mulling over tasks, and the ensuing malaise that takes place following a poor meeting.
Despite this, meetings remain one of the most invaluable ways to communicate with your team, generate ideas and resolve outstanding issues and challenges. There is a wealth of information relating to meeting best practice – it could take up a ream of posts simply covering the issues around how to mediate, how to run, and how to structure this communication tool.
How to Get Things Done faster
Posted by: | CommentsSometimes you have a lot of things to do or finish but it seems like you’re not really getting anywhere. You are working hard but there’s just no productivity. Your mind’s not working, your brain’s stuck, you just can’t move on.
Getting things done much faster would make you more productive thus more tasks are finished, more projects, more pay.
But how are you going to train yourself to work faster? Here are some tips that you can check out.
50 Tricks to Get Things Done Faster, Better, and More Easily by Dustin Wax
Staff Management: How To Get The Best Out Of Your Staff
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As any staff manager knows, sometimes it can be tough to strike the right balance between managing well, and having a great rapport with your team. There always needs to be a line which isn’t crossed to ensure your staff respect you, and yet it’s often tempting to become friends with the people you spend time with every day.
Most people who work in a corporate environment spend more time with their team than they do with their families on a daily basis, and this close-knit community can make it difficult to know how best to manage your relationships at work, when staff aren’t performing as well as you would hope.
Manager Skill: The Pros And Cons Of Being A Popular Manager
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Management styles differ from person to person, depending upon personality types, experience, beliefs and the environment.
One of the cohesive factors which affect management practice is the age-old question of whether it is better to be liked, or respected, when it comes to managing a team.
Being liked has a number of advantages when it comes to getting the best out of your staff.
The manager who is well-liked inspires some superb behaviour, and doesn’t really have to have any leadership skills, as their personality and charisma will usually work to secure staff loyalty and productivity.
Manager Competencies: Improve Your Manager Qualities With These E-books
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To succeed at Management you need to excel in a number of Manager competencies.
Some of these competencies you will find quite easy and they will be a natural strength…others you will find hard. We all have strengths and weaknesses but to be a great manager you cannot afford to have any poor management skills and that means investing in yourself.
Here are some resources that will improve your competencies. All are priced at just $2.99.
Positive Attitude
In every aspect of your career, your attitude plays a big role. If you want to get ahead then you have to have a positive attitude.
360 Degree Appraisals: Use Them To Enhance Your Team
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If you work in a management environment, you will have probably have heard of 360 degree appraisals / feedback.
Effective performance management techniques can improve staff motivation, enhance team work, inform career progression and support organisational development.
Multi-rater, or 360 degree appraisals is an innovative approach to performance appraisal, which invites feedback from a range of key stakeholders that surround the employee – including managers, colleagues, customers and suppliers.
It’s growing in popularity, as many organisations seek to develop more equitable and inclusive performance appraisal methodologies.
Switching Off At The End Of A Workday
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For the majority of managers, we’re contracted to work around 35 hours per week.
We go in at around nine in the morning, work until lunch, and then leave after five.
This is what we are paid to do.
Why is it, then, that so many of us refuse to switch off when we leave work?
We’re not paid for the time we spend at three in the morning, mulling over issues in the dark. We aren’t offered overtime for the hours we spend over the weekend thinking about work, or the days spent with half our minds dedicated to worrying about work-related issues.
Hi, Andrew Rondeau here. I have over 25 years of hands-on management experience within a diverse range of different industries including retail, manufacturing, finance and IT. I’ve managed teams of up to 1000 individuals, managing numerous $multi-million projects, mergers, acquisitions and company sales.
