Remember: if you can cause others to strive to achieve high standards, then you are fit to tag yourself an effective manager. The manager’s role is to inspire, support, cajole, exhort, critique, nag, encourage, confront and comfort. The case with some managers in today’s corporate world is such that they only focus on the mistakes from their team members and totally neglect the successes made by the team.
If you want to be known as excellent at something, then you have to be reliably, consistently excellent at it. Here are nine critical beliefs of most successful managers:
- Build your people, and the rest of the results will come.
- It is important how people treat each other: make sure to monitor it and manage it.
- People have to trust management and trust each other.
- Success is about character, respect, integrity, trust, honesty, empowerment, confidence, loyalty, and keeping promises.
- Understand that fun and discipline combined get the job done.
- An effective manager should live up to his/her values every day.
- An effective manager must bet on the long term and not get stampeded by short term pressures.
- The agenda as a manager is to create a great place to work, not to work at making your own star rise.
- An effective manager should balance his/her focus on people, clients, and finances.
Use these nine principles to become the person you would want to hire, keeping in mind that you can be the effective manager responsible for creating energy, drive and ambitions in others… … …Today!