The Art Of Mind Management

Management has various facets. At gross level as we all know, it is about managing deliveries – Time, cost and quality. Volumes of books are available off the shelf on this topic which I do not intend to even remotely refer to or repeat.

Mind Management!!

What I really want to share is my thoughts on management of something at much subtler level - Mind Management!! This is for all those ‘On the job Managers’ and ‘Aspiring managers'. The first thing that we need to learn to tackle is not the delivery, team or client, but our own mind, and the mind of the team.

Yes!, this might seem a little off the track but this is a fact. And before you even step in as a manager, these are the ground areas which need to be worked up on. This is as basic as learning the alphabets before you join them together to make sense for others. Let us check out the following few queries

Theory of Empowerment

Empower your subordinates as much as possible. Relate your thoughts to their thoughts, enable free thinking and an calculated space to experiment for them to gain confidence and grow naturally. Empower your reportees and equip them to take up your current responsibilities and free up you to take greater responsibilities.

Elavate their career and hunt for the next higher opportunity. Basic rule, until our hands are emptied, you cannot take up some thing else.

Empower others to empower yourselves.