4 skills a manager should have.

This is the almost obligatory step for any employee who wants to take the lead: to arrive at the head of a team to manage. So do you have to be directive, establish yourself as an undisputed leader or bet on a local relationship? Success does not necessarily rest on these qualities.

 

1-Be good to yourself

A good manager is a person who is good with herself/himself, who is happy in her/his job and who values the company in which she/he works. Thanks to these fundamentals, the manager will want to do things well and invest fully in his mission. A manager has to try to fly ahead under the stress and has to focus on his/her missions and accomplish them.  For this, the manager must give positive feedback, encourage people, say thank you for the work done and this on a daily basis.

 

2- A manager does not focus on the results

This may seem surprising, but achieving goals is not what should drive a manager’s actions. The manager must focus on the practices to be implemented and invest in the actions. He has to deal with the strengths of his team and devote his energy to their success. According to some specialists, a manager will not get the best by exercising a constant pressure on its colleagues. This attitude can only disempower them, paralyze them in their creativity and slow down their investment in their job. Nobody is perfect and nobody can succeed in everything but to be a good manager you have at least to give the best of yourself. 

 

3-Know how to make decisions

The manager is not the one who must have the answer to everything and the solutions to advance everyone’s work. His role is more about delegating people on his team so that they can help him to find solutions. He, therefore, has the responsibility to decide on the action to be taken, either immediately, and if this is not possible, he must decide in any case the deadline.

For this, he must direct his questions, not on the state of the problem, but on the solutions to get out of this impasse. A collaborator asks for help on a project that does not go as planned. To banish: “Tell me what is happening”, which will result in a waste of time because, at the end of the story, we will not be more advanced on the solutions.

The good posture of the manager is to direct the conversation towards the future, towards the target situation. To obtain it, you have to start with “how”, which will help you to design the solutions to implement. Or ask the collaborator: “What can you do to unblock the situation?” and then develop with him an action plan that will fulfil his mission.

4- Have an impeccable communication

“What did you screw up, you disappoint me!” This is typically a sentence that a manager should never pronounce. Indeed, he must neither reproach or complain. However, the manager must do cropping when necessary. But it must remain focused on concrete and observable facts, such as the commitments made by the employee, and highlight the consequences of his failure, before directing his questions to solve the problem. The manager must motivate his team, give them positives advises and try to push them forwards.

In all cases, the manager must be present and available to his team and not to be ruminations or stress. It’s up to you!

 

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