Want to become an Effective Manager?
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“With great power comes great responsibilities”
We all are very much familiar with this quote, but what we lack is understanding those responsibilities. Most of the time we believe that the responsibilities we have are related to the key roles of the position but every position is embraced with an individual’s personality and traits. These traits can be inherited, born with, or learned with time.
But, if we want to become a successful manager/ effective manager and more like an effective leader, then we should first consider a basic question –
Why do we want to manage?
Is it for prestige? And if you have doubts about your capability to proceed, getting a small experience in effectively managing one or a few reporter/s (could be interns) will be a smart step without being fully committed.
Once, we answer and analyze it, we can acknowledge:-
The traits an effective manager consists of –
1. Proper Evaluation of Organisational Goal
Different Organisation has different goals and visions, and a manager’s role is to analyze them and properly distribute in the plates of the team members. The effective manager makes sure that everybody understands why we need a particular task to be done and creates a clear map of organizational goals.
One should consider that having more than three priorities simply means that they do not have any. Therefore this becomes a manager’s responsibility to evaluate and properly communicate the ultimate goals of the company and how those goals relate to individual employee’s goals.
2. Assessment of Team Members
An effective manager should know about his/her employees, discover what their thoughts are, what they care about, how they perceiving the work, what they find fun, and what they hate. He/she observes and gets the most out of them by adapting and individualizing their team members’ roles by adjustments and let them fit with the needs of employees.
3. Open communication and active listening
As an effective manager, your subordinates should be able to connect frankly, be available and reachable to them. Get yourself accessible for answering any clarifications and inquiries from your team.
However these conversations are not necessary to be of work and related, they can be talking about individual desires or frustrations. Need not be strict about any changes, even if you can’t make anything easy does not mean you won’t listen, hearing is still valuable.
4. Proper delegation and filtering
A successful manager knows how to delegate the right tasks to the right people. He/she acknowledges his/her team member’s capabilities and desires and based on their skills- specialization, strength, and weakness delegates tasks. This benefits, getting the task done by someone who is an expert in that field.
On the other hand, have you ever received an email forwarded from your Boss which was given to him from his/her higher management? And do that feel demotivating?
Now, an effective manager is aware of this and he/she makes sure that not every detail should look like being directly forwarded, there should be filtering and distribution in the tasks.
5. Effective Manger Motivates & mentor
A manager is the first person every team member looks for mentoring, they want to gravitate to those leaders who can guide them to their success and who can advise them on ‘how to’ concerning their key roles.
As a result, managers should invest in employee’s potential through coaching and proper motivation, because a successful manager already knows that an employee’s inner motivation is the key to high performance.
There is one more key tip that an effective manager is aware of, even though your team loses, even though nobody believes in them, a good manager stands with them, no matter what he motivates and makes the person back on track.
6. Avail Opportunities
Successful manager not just commits to and champions a spirit of learning in the working environment but also sends a clear message that individual employee’s growth is the growth of the organization and therefore is of the utmost importance.
Giving their team members challenging projects in their unique frame, let them add additional skills and simultaneously providing them new learning and development opportunities, makes an employee do better than what they used to do.
7. To & from Feedbacks
A continuous flow of feedback from managers to employees and vice versa is mandatory. In this way not only employee gets to know the actual requirements as well they learn and develop for the betterment.
On the other hand, an effective manager should take reviews and suggestions from their employees, peers as well, which helps him/her in improving and being more effective the next time he takes the same action, by keeping in mind consents of both.
But, the weak point here is that managers sometimes become vulnerable, and let their ego get in the way, which acts as hindrances in the process, therefore, he/she should keep that ego side and consider employee’s opinion/suggestions and act on it.
8. Rewards and Recognition
We all know that rewards work as one of the greatest motivating factors, and a manager have the power to encourage their employees through rewards or recognitions. An effective manager grants incentives or recognizes employee’s achievements, even if they are small at first.
These small efforts may give an impression that the manager cares about his/her employees and this makes employees develop a strong relationship with the manager, they are satisfied and inspired.
9. Effective Manager has a Futuristic Vision
It is said, that a Bad manager thinks about past mistakes and what he/she could have changed, an average manager focuses on the present, but the best managers are futuristic and they have their vision for tomorrow.
They not just only, plan – learning from their past and keep themselves in coordination with the developing world in present but they also prepare future leaderships. They make potential individuals, who can take their process successive.
10. Give unconditional respects to Team members
The world’s greatest managers respect their employees, they respect their goals, they led them to feel that they are part of the process. Being a leader does not mean getting your team members to agree and nod to everything you say, disagreements will be also there but an effective manager treats others with respect and kindness no matter what.
11. Healthy Co-working space
A successful manager makes sure that the coworking spaces are healthy and safe for their employees, even if you are working remotely by offering time and virtual space for collaboration.
He/she knows that an employee’s performance at work in a particular moment does not need to be our identity as a thing in which they can be judged, their worth is questioned. An effective manager is completely aware that work culture directly affects individuals and their performances.
12. Maintaining the continuity
An effective manager keeps on learning managerial skills and improves his performance from time to time. With the change in environment, the people we indulge with are also changing and therefore ways of managing them also improves.
With this, you now know what traits are developed and learned for being an effective manager.
But we should know that if you are lacking these traits it does not mean that you are not going to be a good Boss or a leader, the effect on your subordinates may vary but judging your personality and forcefully changing yourself based on other’s expectations is ultimately not what a leader is defined with.
So, do what makes you feel doing.
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Would like to connect with the author? – Nikita Sinha
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