Manage things Better As Manager by Shaily Jain

How to Manage things Better As Manager

For most organizations, managers occupy an important spot on the organizational chart, existing between the company’s leadership (CEO, vice presidents, directors, etc.) and rank-and-file employees. As such, managers are responsible for understanding leadership’s strategic initiatives and goals and using that understanding to direct the actions and work of individual employees in a way that aligns with those goals .

While the specific tasks and duties managers are expected to perform vary substantially depending on the organization, business segment, or department they oversee, management responsibilities largely fall into the following categories:

• Managing processes

• Managing people

• Managing expectation

Way to improve your management skills:

1.Define your vision and broadcasting 

2.Get personal to get engagement

3. Recognize the power of influence through personal branding. 

4. Maintain great communication    5.Understand the power of gratitude. 

6. Make work more fun. 

7. Learn how to make your top-performing employees stay.

8. Handle toxic employee

9. Admit your mistakes

10.Learn how to manage former co-workers

      How to become a better Manager

       1 .  Get to know your employees and what they want. Take the time to get to know them both on a personal level and a professional level. Know their career goals but also know their personal interests and passions.  

      2 .  Communicate Try to be forthcoming with your team. Let them know pertinent information and realize the effects that lack of communication can have on your staff.

       3 . Listen to your employees  as much as possible. If an employee comes to you with an idea or concern, try to make time and give your full attention to the issue.

       4 .  Be a motivatorEncourage employees to work hard and give them good reason to work hard.

        5 . Be a leadernot just a manager. Provide a clear direction and goal for your team, show them how to achieve success in your organization.

        6 .Improve yourselfWhile it’s important to improve your team, don’t forget about yourself. Examine your weaknesses and work on improving them everyday. 

       7 . Acknowledge successTry and see the positives in your employees and their work. Don’t focus on what’s missing or what your team isn’t doing but rather on their successes and hard work.

        8 . Lead by example. Make sure you operate with integrity and ethics in the workplace. Act the way that you would like your staff to act.   

      Difference between manager and leader

The main difference between being a leader and a manager, is that people follow leaders, while managers have people who work for them.

A lot of this comes down to three areas; motivation, vision and communication.

In any organisation or group setting, there are individuals that other people seem to just gravitate toward. These people tend to have great motivation, a clear and positive vision and are very good at communicating.

These examples of leadership don’t just appear in business either – it could be on the sports ground, the local interests club or in a not-for-profit organisation.

There is a common quote you may have heard previously about the difference between manager and leader; “Managers have subordinates, leaders have followers”.

Experts agree that those leaders with shining qualities are the ones who not only have a vision; they strive towards it, and get other people to ‘drink the kool aid’ so to speak.

• Key Differences Between Leader and Manager

Another perspective can be found over on Key Differences. This article states;

The difference between leader and manager can be drawn clearly on the following grounds:

A leader influences his subordinate to achieve a specified goal, whereas a manager is a person who manages the entire organisation.

A leader possesses the quality of foresightedness while a manager has the intelligence

A leader sets directions, but a manager plans details.

A manager takes decision while a leader facilitates it.

A leader and the manager is that a leader has followers while the manager has the employees.

A manager avoids conflicts. On the contrary, a leader uses conflicts as an asset.

The manager uses transactional leadership style. As against this, transformational leadership style is used by the leader.

Leaders promote change, but Managers react to the change.

A leader aligns people, while a manager organizes people.

A leader strives for doing the right things. Conversely, the manager strives for doing the right things.

Shaily Jain