How to become a successful manager

How to become a successful manager

1. Motivate your emploees

• Motivate people. Why are the employees there? What keeps them with your organization and stops them from going somewhere else? What makes the good days good? What makes them stick with the organization after a bad day or a bad week? Don't assume it's money - most people aren't that one-dimensional (имеющий измерение).

• Remember, If you manage by respecting your team's values, they will give you 110 % of their effort.
• Offer perks that your employees will value. If health is important to them, give them time to go to the gym and work out. If their family is important, respect the time they may need to send their kids off to school in the morning or pick them up in the afternoon.

2. Set goals

• Make sure each employee knows what's expected. Having concrete goals empowers your employees and keeps them focused on work.

3. Delegate responsibility

• Delegate. You're a manager because you're good at what you do, but that doesn't mean you're supposed to do everything yourself. Your job as a manager is to teach other people how to do a good job.
• Start small. Give people tasks that, if performed incorrectly, can be fixed. Take the opportunity to teach and empower your employees. Then gradually give them tasks with greater responsibility as you come to understand their strengths and weaknesses.
• As your workers begin to take on more responsibility and demonstrate that they're capable, give them tasks that will expand their skill sets and help them take more ownership of their work.

4. Communicate

• Keep the door open. Always remind people that if they have any questions or concerns, you're ready and willing to listen. Maintaining an open channel of communication will make you aware of problems quickly, so that you can fix them as soon as possible.
• Take an interest in your employees. Don't make every interaction with your workers strictly business. Ask after their well-being, chat with them about yourself, and establish a personal connection.

5. Learn from mistakes

• In order for people to think for themselves, they need to learn, and in order to learn, sometimes we need to make mistakes. Trust them, and give them a fair possibility of error.

6. Embrace egalitarianism

• Treat everyone equally. Most of us aren't as egalitarian as we'd like to be. Many times, favoritism happens on a subconscious level. The tendency is to give more positive recognition to the people who actually like us, rather than to the people who make the biggest contributions to the organization. So you should this fact.

GOOD ADVICE:

• Celebrate success with your team.
• Avoid making employees stay after normal working hours. Respect their time and personal commitments.
• Never reprimand an employee publicly.
• Forget about your credentials. Education didn't make you a better manager. But experience can contribute to becoming a good manager.
• If termination is absolutely necessary, don't automatically give the employee a bad reference. Emphasize the employee's strengths and skills.