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Readers Respond: Share Your Management Success Tips

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Have you worked successfully as a manager of people? Share your management success tips so all of us can learn more about how to be more successful managers. What management success tips work for you? See More Reader Responses. Share Your Success Tips

Willingness to work

I believe that you shouldn't ask your employees to do something you are not willing to do yourself. This shows the employees that you don't think of yourself as better than them.
—Guest Rita

Customer Service

Customer Service, whether to your boss, co-worker or CLIENT is the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT issue which determines a company's success or eventual demise. Most people never get this thinking, especially if within a large company, that their behavior will never be noticed. Remember the next time someone you know is promoted over you or someone else. What's their Customer Service attitude, both inside and outside of their company.
—Guest Goldy55

Good and Efficient Managers

To be a good and efficient manager, you should be in a position to know yourself and be capable of doing things first, before your subordinates, so that they will never get misled or mislead you
—Guest gopal rao yadow

Empowers their teammates

Informs them of what is going on in the organization and includes them in important meetings. Assists them in being recognized by Senior Management groups and helps them develop their skills.
—Guest Pat

Coordination

To regard every worker who works with you. Define her/his nature for work and be loyal.
—Guest nitu

Management Success

Communication is key in management. It goes beyond verbal to nonverbal. Colleagues often react to what you mean that you did not say verbally. Therefore, self awareness of spoken and unspoken words is key to driving any workforce!
—Guest multiderek

Share/own the blame

As a leader, do always take the accountability tactfully, this creates a very conducive work environment for staff innovation and company success. Do never blame your subordinate because this does not make a lot of sense if you are to be a successful leader and a role model.
—Guest Lawrence Kinyua

Manager Job Description

I like the definition by Edgar Wille: "Management is risking yourself in mobilisation of resources and relationships to add value to the enterprise" I believe that the word "mobilisation" contains the best job description, because if there are some resources and/or relationships which are not "in motion" the management job is done badly. The risk is: that if the mentioned mobilisation is successful - it is normal, but if not - the manager is guilty.
—ladislav8

Management Success

Share the Management Success tips with your colleagues and get better results.
—Guest Khalid khan

Honesty is a key for manager

Skills of communication or listening, planner or decision maker in a manager, are good, but not sufficient if he isn't honest...so honest is the main key to be a good manager..!
—Guest Suk limbu

Managing Your Staff

A good manager should be able to manage his reports, amidst his tolerance, and should possess a high level of intuitive perceptions as to understand individual differences and harmonize them for greater achievement.
—Guest odey martins ogar

What Did I Learn?

Ask yourself everyday what did I learn. If you find yourself not learning anything most of the time, chances are you’re not excelling in your position. Keep your eyes and ears open for learning opportunities. What might seem like useless information now, could turn out to be vital in the future.
—Guest Paul Gibson

Communication Is Key

Communication is a cliche but there is so much truth behind it. Effective and good communication between a manager and his/her team can not be stressed enough. This encompasses listening to their ideas and sharing yours in a positive way. Speaking respectfully and non-dismissively is a style that every manager should hone - a team appreciates being respected - and listening to their ideas helps.
—Guest Nisha Ramroop

Management Success

Sucessfull management better for business: leadership, communication, attitude, personality, culture, type of business.
—Guest MUHAMMAD AZEEM

Laid Back Approach

In the end, it only matters if the tasks were completed. Team members enjoy working under me because I get the same amount of work done as other supervisors, but not lighting a fire under their ass.
—Guest Clint

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