Tips For Managers

Learning how to be a good manager is a long process. Much of it comes with experience, but much of it also comes from introspection. How many of us have worked for someone who’s been a manager for twenty years, but still doesn’t really know how to manage people? Here are some tips to fast-track you on the way to being a great people manager – and avoid waiting those same twenty years.

Here are some great tips for managers:

• Motivate – Learn the motivational buttons for your people – some care about quality work, some care about recognition, some care about time off. Find out what each of these motivatinos are from your people (ask them!) and use this to motivate them to do a great job.
• Delegate – Learn how to delegate! Your job as a manager is to delegate work. So don’t try to do it all yourself. Learn how to trust your people to do a good job.
• Transparency – How many managers go throughout their careers with their employees whispering behind their backs about decisions they’ve made? Tell your people how you make decisions (consdier letting them participate in the criteria).
• Fail – People only learn when they fail. Let your people fail – and make it OK to do so. The best way of doing this is to fail yourself, and show your people that it’s not the end of the world, and that you’ve learned not to do the same thing again.
• Access – You can’t manage from an Ivory Tower. Give your people good, timely access to you.
• Help – Help your people to grow in their jobs. Publish that accounting manager job description and any other jobs on the bulletin board, and ask if anyone in your group would like to pursue the job – you can help!
• Replace – Have a plan to replace yourself. Nothing motivates your people to shine like the opportunity to have your job. Your bosses will think this is a good idea too!

Those are just some of the things to think about when you’re a manager. But dare I say that if you can handle all of these, everything else is “icing on the cake”.

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