How do I know if I am a good manager ?
Ask yourself these questions:
- When I give instructions or feedback, how is it received? Sometimes poorly?
- Have I ever felt so challenged about giving instructions or feedback that I was unsure about whether I did it in the right way?
- Do I care about the person, and my organisation, enough to give feedback, even when it feels uncomfortable?
- Am I unclear about the skills I need to use?
- Do I need to develop the skills and the approach I need to take?
None of us is perfect and we all have hidden areas of ourselves that we cannot see.
Work Scales can help you develop yourself as a person and as an effective manager. Coaching is becoming widely recognised as a powerful tool for increasing performance within organisations. Stress management is also high on the agenda and all people managers need to be able to recognise stress in their staff and deal with it promptly before staff start losing effectiveness, making mistakes and taking sick leave. Introducing a stress management policy within your organisation can pay huge dividends – nipping problems in the bud before they develop. Prevention is always better than cure. Once a staff member has gone off sick with stress, it will be much harder to get them back to their optimum level of performance again, and some employees will never return to work. This can be prevented.
An autocratic style of management often increases stress and decreases performance. Encouraging your staff to take responsibility and to contribute towards your organisation’s success is a must in today’s market. Most “problems” with staff are due to poor management.
You may be an excellent lawyer, accountant, IT manager, technician, builder, surveyor, engineer, doctor, scientist, analyst or statistician, but this doesn’t necessarily equip you with the right skills to manage staff. In fact, it is often within these kinds of professions that most staffing problems occur. Generally speaking, people who are skilled in working with facts, figures, concepts and technical material are less naturally inclined towards people skills. You may not be aware that your behaviour and management style can lead to resentment and disharmony in the workforce, which in turn leads to stress-related illnesses, poor performance and a decrease in productivity.
You are responsible for the behaviour and productivity of your staff. Poor performance reflects on your skills as a manager. WorkScales can help you change your attitude and behaviour and, as a result, alter the outlook of the people you manage. Your line manager will also notice the difference and credit you for the improvement in your staff’s performance. It’s a win/win formula that benefits everyone, maximising potential and tearing down the obstacles to your success, boosting your company’s profit, productivity and performance. Yes, it will bring financial rewards, but better still, every person in your team will know they are important, respected and appreciated. They will generate good, creative solutions, and have the confidence to communicate them to others and make them work.
