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Management. Michael Heath
Читать онлайн.Название Management
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isbn 9780007358878
Автор произведения Michael Heath
Жанр Зарубежная деловая литература
Издательство HarperCollins
You local bookshop is stuffed full of books claiming to help you manage better. So why add one more? Because I’ve done the job. And I’ve written it so that you get quick practical advice about the every day challenges I know you face. If you think academic theories are going to help – this ain’t the book.
As well as doing the job, I’ve spent the last 20 years or so working with other people also doing the job of management. Training them. Coaching them. Mentoring them. And believe me, that’s a lot of experience to dip into. I’ve seen the superstar managers – and the managers who would only get a star for being so bad at it. And what separates them? Simple – great managers prepare.
So I want you to prepare to make your management life easier. I want you to experience the thrill of knowing you manage your team well. And I want you to have a reputation as the sort of manager that people imitate. That people want to be like. That’s why I’m sharing these 50 secrets with you. You’ll find these secrets spread over seven chapters:
■ Manage yourself. You’ve got to have a clear sense of who you are before you manage others. Personal credibility is a big factor in a manager’s success.
■ Empower your people. People can be powerful – but only when the right management behaviours enable them to tap into that power. How you prepare for crucial interactions with others will determine your success.
■ Make things happen. A manager gets things done. Getting things done means applying the right tools and techniques that make sure the right things get done.
■ Communicate in all directions. Many don’t realise just how much skill a talented manager uses when they communicate. Not just to the team, but every key person they interact with.
■ Recruit the very best. You want a great candidate to say ‘yes’ to your job offer. A systematic approach to recruitment makes this a reality.
■ Build a great team. Great teams don’t happen by chance. A manager works carefully on the composition, skills and motivation of their employees. And they also turn team meetings into events that people look forward to.
■ Treat the budget with respect. Whether you’ve a budget or not, you will make crucial decisions that affect it. Understanding something of the process will help guide your decision making.
Time and again I’m going to talk about the need to prepare. Don’t short-change yourself on this. Thinking about and preparing for the management situations you face is often the deciding factor between the great manager and the mediocre.
Great managers anticipate and prepare while others merely react and repair.
I love the saying, “That which I understand, I control. That which I don’t understand, controls me.” This chapter is about deepening the understanding you have of yourself and how you come across to your team. These secrets address subjects that many managers do not get right. So give the questions serious thought and decide how successfully you manage yourself. Then you’ll be ready to move on to managing others.
Role modelling starts when you’re a child, when you start to look around for someone to copy. As you get older you start to move your target. You want to be more like your friends, your heroes, your boss…
Guess what? There are people who want to be a manager like you. To do what you do. They watch you closely and even start dealing with stuff the way that you deal with stuff. Recognize it? You probably do it yourself. You’re either using approaches that your boss uses – or making sure you do the opposite!
■ What’s the great thing about role modelling? Role modelling is imitating the success we see because we want to be successful. Well,
case study At the start of my training career I delivered a workshop for my organization’s customer services staff. We covered the usual things, including how you pick the phone up to customers using a proper company greeting. A few days later I was surprised to find a delegate from the workshop picking up an incoming call with a casual “Hello.” I asked why he hadn’t used the professional greeting we agreed on the workshop. He pointed to his boss on the other side of the room and said, “As soon as he starts answering the phone properly, I’ll start answering the phone properly”.
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing” Albert Schweitzer, German-French philosopher
if you want your people to be enthusiastic, attentive to detail, great time managers, hard working, etc., then you have to be enthusiastic, attentive to detail, a great time manager…I’m sure you’ve got it.
■ The flip-side. You can’t ask your employees to do things you’re not prepared to do. Need people occasionally to work late? Then you need to be seen occasionally working late. Want them to meet your deadlines? Then keep your deadlines with them. Want people to show respect for each other in the team? Then you must show respect to everyone – inside or outside the team.
By demonstrating high performance behaviour, you’ll be challenging your employees to raise their game. You don’t have to say, “Be more like me”. They’ll soon pick up the message.
Demonstrate excellence and professionalism at all times.
It doesn’t take long for people to spot a fraud. You’ve probably already spotted one or two at work yourself and already know how important it is to be authentic and honest with employees. But how do you build the real trust between manager and staff?
What your team wants from you is consistent behaviour. They need to see an underlying logic to your decision making. They need to feel that you are always fair – even if they don’t like a decision.
This consistency always comes from a stable character. But what is character? Character is usually a combination of the qualities that make up an individual. Some qualities can be attributes such as ‘determined’, ‘persevering’ or ‘enthusiastic’. Other qualities are more to do with your moral code: ‘honesty’, ‘integrity’, ‘fairness’.
case study A recently promoted manager called me to ask for advice. “The trouble is I don’t do small talk, Michael. I know that managers should, but