Management Training Courses
Improving Your Management Skills

short courses to develop skills and confidence

Improving Your Management Skills                © 2009. Performance Development Pty. Ltd.

Take time to reflect from a leadership perspective

A common problem when you first start to manage people is that you do not actually think about management issues because you do not recognise them. In other words, things normally go wrong not because you don't care, but more likely because you have never really thought about things from a manager’s perspective.

Improving yourself as a leader is often about pausing to ask yourself the right questions and then taking some time to reflect upon things from a more strategic perspective. Whereas in the past, you had a short term operational perspective to your decision-making, in terms of simply what would work best on the day.

As a manager, there are many more factors than just expedience that must enter into your considerations - for example what is the precedent that you may be setting for the rest of the team.

Find a mentor

Don't think that you have to do it all by yourself. Identify the experienced managers inside your organisation, who are generally respected. Try and cultivate a relationship with these figures, and see if they might be willing to share some of the benefit of their experience with you.

Research has shown that a major source of job satisfaction for more mature successful managers (who no loger feel they have anything to prove) is the feeling that they are guiding and contributing to the development of others who have potential. So don't be afraid to ask for help or advice ...... just make sure that you asking the right people for it! 

By allocating time to learning about how to perform the leadership role, and by patiently working at developing your people skills and improving your judgement – you will end up experiencing enormous job satisfaction as you succeed in gaining the confidence and respect of your staff and subsequently delivering to the organisation the results expected of your team. 

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