UNDERSTAND THE CORPORATE CULTURE

TO UNDERSTAND MANAGEMENT

IS TO UNDERSTAND CORPORATE CULTURES

It’s an establish fact that one cannot be a better boss or manager until one first learns how to be a better person.  The right business vision with wrong management focus is worthless.  Managing people and their work is not simple, it need proper training.

ATTRIBUTES OF A GOOD MANAGER

·         Effective decision making ·         Strategic problem solving ·         Maintaining a conducive management style ·         Efficient planning and administration of work procedures ·         Managing productive meetings ·         Professional staff training ·         Quality work performance ·         Inculcating creativity and innovation ·         Articulating corporate vision effectively ·         Stress management through emotional intelligence ·         Formulating an effective appraisal system ·         Analysing demographic characteristics of management team ·         Recognizing key sources of sustainable competitive advantage

Quality managerial staff with substantial expertise and professional ethics, add more value to any organization.  Having the right personality becomes an important factor.

To be an effective boss and strategic leader, you need a solid foundation in diverse management skills.  Management is not about power and politics, it’s about style, skills, strategy and result.  Management spreads its influence in every corporate culture.  Managers have to create a climate of motivation and staff empowerment.

It is a well-known fact that failure is a first step to success.  There can be no measured excellence without managerial level headedness or prudence.

MANAGERIAL TYPES
Commander	Authoritative, stern and forceful
Avoider	Set low goals, not ambitions, astute and prefer routine work
Pleaser	Typical public relation type, prefer to be the popular type and applies “placebo psychology
Bully	The person is argumentative, hot-tempered not supportive and demotivating.
Performer	Likes to hog the limelight seek prestige and recognition, and very impressionable.
Achiever	Sets high objective, very dynamic and workaholic
Strategist	Skilful, calculative, diplomatic, suave, typically intelligent, stand out in a crowd with individual showmanship qualities

There are many chapters in our life as managers, but the last chapter must surely be the legacy we leave behind.

Shared From:

Management Savvy by Treror Gordon

Better life,

Accountants Today,

November 2005