Management 101

Tuesday, April 14th 2009 @ 12:21 AM

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Wikipedia definition is...Anyone who uses management skills or holds the organizational title of "manager"

By Management skills they mean: in all business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal.

So how do you become a Better Manager

1. Core/Key points:

• Select the best people
• Be a motivator
• Be a Leader, Not Only a Manager
• Get Better at Managing Time
• Improve Yourself

2.Tell people what you want, not how to do it.

• You will find people more responsive and less defensive if you can give them guidance not instructions.
• You will also see more initiative, more innovation, and more of an ownership attitude from them develop over time.

3. Don't DO Anything.

• Your job as a manager is to "plan, organize, control and direct."
• Don't let yourself waste valuable time by falling back on what you did before you became a manager. We know you enjoy it and you are good at it. That's why you were promoted.
• Now you need to concentrate your efforts on managing, not on "doing".

4. Managing and motivating people

• A manager's most important, and most difficult, job is to manage people.
• You must lead, motivate, inspire, and encourage them.
• Sometimes you will have to hire, fire, discipline or evaluate employees.