As a manger and the leader of your team, you have the authority to authorise, encourage or restrict most aspects of your employees working day, and this places you in a position of power and responsibility.
Sadly, the way many organisations approach the management of people and projects kills the incentive to be creative and stifles creative ability.
Some of you will recognise this business model:
Always pretend to know more than everybody around you.
Get employees to fill in time sheets
Run daily checks on progress of everyone’s work
Ensure that highly qualified people do mundane work for long periods
Create barriers between departments
Never speak personally to employees, except when announcing increased targets, shortened deadlines and tightened cost restraints
Ask for a multi page documents to justify every new idea
Call lots of meetings
Place all the emphasis on the budget
Buy lots of computers
To get the best results you have to be good at managing people. Yes success is all about people, great managers make it a priority to build relationships and spend time listening to their people.
What great ideas do you have to motivate your team?
As a Manager and the leader of your team, you have the authority to encourage or restrict most aspects of your employees working day, and this places you in a position of power and responsibility.
Sadly, the way many organisations approach the management of people kills the incentive to be creative and stifles ability.
Some of you will recognise this style of management:
- Always pretend to know more than everybody around you.
- Insist employees to fill in time sheets
- Run daily checks on progress of everyone’s work
- Engage highly qualified people in mundane work for long periods
- Create barriers between departments
- Never speak personally to employees, except when announcing increased targets, cutting deadlines and tightening cost restraints
- Ask for a multi page documents to justify every new idea
- Call lots of meetings
- Place all the emphasis on the budget
To get the best results you have to be good at managing people.
Success is all about people, great managers make it a priority to build relationships and spend time listening to their people.
Do you have some great ideas to motivate a team and get the best out of them or how you deal with a manager who stifles your creativity?