How Do You Become A Successful Manager?
Becoming a success manager is an inside job; to become a successful manager, you must first manage yourself. • Become a practical visionary. Successful managers have a clear vision of what success means to them, and they share their vision with others. A vision comes from your soul and touches your heart. It influences your decisions and actions. For example, if your vision is to help the environment in every way you can, you will use supplies that are environmentally conscious and will recycle everything you can. Your staff will follow your vision, and your example can influence your peers to adopt conservation strategies. • Develop your communication skills. Two-way communication is a necessary element of authentic interaction. Success managers are good listeners who seek out and give appropriate feedback to achieve the results they want. Provide employees and customers outlets for expressing ideas, voicing concerns and making suggestions. By encouraging and practicing open communica
It’s pretty easy to look at your manager and think, “What’s the big deal? Anyone could do what she does; in fact, a trained chimp could do her job!” Actually, it takes lots of effort to become a successful manager. We’re not talking about the manager who plays up to the big boss; we’re talking about a manager who keeps her department running smoothly, whose staff show up to work every day with a certain amount of enthusiasm, and who demonstrates consistently positive results in terms of productivity. If you want to be that person, you can take steps now to become a successful manager. Step 1 Know your department. What exactly is it that you and your department do, produce, fix or litigate? You are more likely to be successful when you are familiar with your department’s mission and goals. If your area doesn’t have a mission or goals, you might need to get the group together and identify one. It’s pretty easy to highlight successful outcomes when you work toward measurable goals. Step 2
