Managers have a huge role to play in the success of any business. Whether you are a one-man-band lookinbg to bring in a little help to start to grow your business, or a leader in a major organization, good, solid people management skills are the only ways to get the best from your people.
Here are a few to help you on your way:-
1. Develop Others Effectively
Your people are your major asset, so it makes sense to treat them with the respect they deserve.
Great people management is all about watching out for any value-creating opportunity that helps you do your job, as well as helping keen, interested and ‘developable’ people in your team stretch and learn, on the job.
This is a true win-win, with you getting much more work done – this time by others – whilst stretching them as well to new skills they can bankl for the future too
2. Be Very Accountable
Respect for any manager has to be earned. It comes from people seeing your integrity on show with every breath you take.
So, when the chips are down, it’s up to you to use your people management skills on yourself as well as with others and accept that the business success or otherwise, is down to you, and you alone.
No excuses. Nobody else. You.
Your people will only learn that there are no excuses in business – only indivuduals who stand up to be accountable, win or lose.
3. Set The Standards First
It’s a funny thing, your people need you to tell them the core fundamentals of ‘how’ you will allow your business to be run – and then they want you to let them get on with finding the best way how to do it!
In fact there is no people management conflict here. The standards you set for your people enables them to get all creative with their solutions – once they have the criteria of what’s allowed and what isn’t. The standards you create with them in the ‘way’ your business wilol run is vital.
A seemingly restrictive environment frees up the thinking and enables incredible success. Sometimes there are rules – then inside those rules there are no rules.
4. Be Very Determined
It’s important to stick with your guns when results and achievements are concerned. You have greated the standards which are immovable, and now it’s time to keep your eye on the ball. On a very clear target.
Sometimes when things aren’t going as well, it could be tempting to compromise with your people management skills, on both the standards of your business, as well as the goals and targets.
Yet this just leads to sloppy discipline and an acceptance that you aren’t for real. Then you bend under pressure – and even give way.
So now is the time to be very determined.
5. Be Trustworthy
If you want the best from your people management skills, you have to earn the trust of every one of your people. Trust can take years to build and but a few moments to destroy.
Trust is about:-
- Keeping your promises – or not making them
- Telling the truth
- Appreciating others needs and circumstances
- Sticking with what you say you will
- Listening to others and saying less
- Sharing information
- Having no favorites
- Being consistent
- Telling people to their face, not to others behind their backs
- Being sensitised so that your intuition works
- Assuming nothing
- Saying sorry when you’ve been in the wrong
People management is quite a challenge for many, yet if you get a few ground rules just right, you will be able to leverage the value of each and every one of your people without doing anything to their disadvantage – in fact they will be positive winners as well. Not to mention a very successful business indeed.
What more could any manager ask for?
By: Martin Haworth
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People Management – 5 Simple Steps To People Management Success
April 21st, 2010Environmental Issues
November 25th, 2009Our world today is being affected by a large variety of environmental problems. Globalization has managed to successfully connect people from different countries but this along with the earth’s natural processes has also managed to convert many small local problems into international issues. As such, today there is not a single society that is not being affected by the consequences of these environmental problems.
However, due to the untiring efforts of many institutions and individuals, there has also been growing awareness of these problems. There is a strong desire in an ever-growing number of people to contribute towards the environmental movement and in the movement to make the earth green. Despite this, the gap between the number of people who are aware of the environmental issues and the number of people actively doing something about it in their lives is enormous.
There are two main causes for this – a busy lifestyle that makes it very difficult for an individual to take time out and keep himself informed of the ways in which he could be helping to make the earth green. The second cause relates to the lack of easy-to-find and easy-to-follow practical suggestions that an individual can use. Small wonder then, that even well-meaning, environment friendly citizens of the world are not sure, as to how they could make any contribution towards protecting the environment.
Our world and our lives are getting increasingly busy these days and when it comes to managing that balance between work life and home life, it is not surprising that even a true eco-minded person will not be able to follow through on many environment friendly actions. Information about the significant role that each person has to play when it comes to making the earth green or what kind of earth-friendly solutions one can adopt is not easily available. And even when it is available, it is always in the terms of more abstract solutions rather than a set of simple steps that an individual or family or even a community can follow.
Let’s make a more diligent attempt to make it easier for people to take earth-friendly steps in their everyday lives. While there are many books written about the environment, its problems and possible solutions, there are not many that suggest practical doable solutions to individuals or families. We need to motivate environment conscious people to actually start practicing green living. With the help of constructive tips and topical resources, we may encourage individuals, families and communities to start taking earth-friendly steps.
At first, we should raise awareness of the various environmental problems, how our actions can end up causing serious harm to the environment and in very simple terms explain how each one of us can make a difference. The emphasis should not only be on awareness of issues but on getting people motivated enough and providing them the help needed to start taking action. Towards this end, it lists practical solutions that one can implement in everyday life, without having to spend too much time or putting in too much effort.
So if you have been an environment enthusiast but have not followed through on your good intentions because you did not have the time, or thought it was too difficult or simply because you did not know how, here is a fresh chance to get motivated about helping our environment, our fellow man, and ourselves!
Scott Wells writes for http://AllThingsPondered.com/2092 where you can learn about environmental issues and what you can do to personally make things better.
By: Scott Wells
