By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=M_James]M James
If you're a manager who is struggling to reach deadlines, have ever increasing targets that are harder to reach, and unproductive staff, then perhaps the problem isn't with everyone else, perhaps the problem is you.
Here's how you could be a better manager
1. By being better at communicating with your staff, you'll be able to make sure that they understand what you want from them, and they need from you. You'll also know when a phone call, email or visit in person is most suitable, and most effective.
2. You want your workers to be more productive. How are you going to achieve this? Do you need to shout at them, force them to work late, or take away privileges? Or will you do as much as you can to help them, and get your hands dirty too?
3. If you workers are more productive, are they also more efficient? Perhaps you can make them more productive by removing red tape and other things that might be slowing them down.
4. What about improving your time management? Could you make better use of your days? Do you need to travel to all those meetings? Do you need to read every email the moment it arrives in your inbox? How much of your workload could you realistically delegate?
5. How are your people skills? Do you take criticism well? What do you staff really think about you? How often to you talk with other departments, suppliers or customers in order to try and make things quicker and easier for all concerned?
6. How much value do you place on staff training? Should your staff know everything they need to know before they start? What about as and when the industry or technology changes? How can they best help you?
7. Are you open to advice and ideas from your staff? Have you tried implementing any schemes, and how can you make them effective? What about going back to the floor, and spending some time actually working with your staff, and seeing the obstacles that they come up against?
8. Are you good at spotting and dealing with staff issues? Are people late because they are lazy, or because they have problems at home? What about colleagues that just don't get on?
9. Are you making the most of technology? What about for communicating with people in different offices, or in different countries? How much of your production line can you automate, or manage with technology? What about laptops, or smartphones for your field based staff?
10. Why not invest in a management training course? It will teach you lots of skills, and even if you've been a manager for years, you're sure to learn something that will help you be a better manager.
Now you know how to be a better manager, what's stopping you from taking a Management Training Course today?
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