Mantras For Being A Successful Manager

Last week, I had a post on "Mind Management". In this post, I'll share my thoughts on few more subtle behavior aspects related to managing a team.

"Practice makes a man perfect". No one is born as a manager. It is only his perseverance, focus in the right direction along with a flair of management that makes him equipped every day. One of the golden rules to follow is

"Be assertive and be like a rock if you know you are righteous in what you say; at the same time accept any mistake immediately and be humble if a mistake has happened from you"

It is not easy to cultivate this in you unless this is natural to
your behavior and hence need sincere effort. This balance in behavior will help earn the respect as a matured human being and as a matured manager.

It is when you are natural and consistent in your behavior that people will start relating their thoughts to yours. This will bring out a lot of openness in the system and all personal issues in the team will start coming to you as a first resort of resolution.

And that is the first level of indication that you are a successful manager. I.e, when you become accessible, the days when people start approaching you for any thing and every thing with out hesitation.

There are 3 things that comes to me as a basis for good management. These are few mantras a manager should cultivate in him as a habit, if possible before even he steps in to the shoes of managing a team or in all practical sense at least in the early stages f his management career.

1. Managing team's aspirations

• Managing team's aspirations properly will bring out the best in them and will be the biggest contributor in successful delivery.
• Managing team doesn’t necessarily mean agreeing to all requests of the team.
• Prioritize based on the impact of a request and in the best interest of client, organization, project, team and the concerned person.
• Make the team/person understand the positive and negative consequences of the decision
• Educate them and equip them for future to take a call themselves before they even approaching you
• Take the decision which will do the best for both team/person and client.

2. No people related issue originates overnight.

• Hence the time taken to resolve a people related issue is some times directly proportional to its ageing.
• The quality of your management ability can be measured by the extent to which you are able to reduce the ageing of a people related issue.
• This means the earlier you are able to understand the possibility of an issue, better you can manage it proactively

3. Avoid quick fixes for issues as much as possible.

• In unavoidable situations quick fixes are welcome, but prepare for the long term solution at the same time

Thoughts are welcome