I walk around the office look at people’s faces, their sitting posture and how they do their work. It sometimes bother me when I see someone who seems to be doing because he has to. To most people a job is just a job. It’s most probably because I am one of the pioneering employees [...]
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Better Management: Have A Plan B
My number one rule is hope for the best, plan for the worst.
~Ezra Kramer (Bourne Ultimatum, 2007)
If you have been in management long enough, you would have probably experienced a situation that everything went wrong. I have. And it’s always so frustrating. It seems that everything is working against you and planned for you to [...]
Better Management: Set An Example
Set An Example
Everyone has a hero. Someone who you look up to. Someone you respect and want to imitate. Some who you would strive to become.
As the manager of a group, you are that person. As a manager, you will need to be an example for your staff. If you go to work early, there’s [...]
Better Management: Learn From your Mistakes
Last time, we discussed how letting your staff make mistakes would result in better performance. The same goes for you. Experience is the best teacher and making mistakes gives you a big, “No, I did this last time. I made a mistake. I won’t do it again” sign.
Mistakes can be missing the deadline, poor execution [...]
Better Management: Use Positive Reinforcement
How do you motivate your employees or staff? How do you make your employees more productive?
Many companies use positive reinforcement help increase productivity and decrease absenteeism used right now to motivate employees to be more productive. Positive reinforcement is any form of incentives or rewards given to employees after achieving a certain goal. For example, [...]
Better Management: Be Ready to Unlearn
Now we gotta make the best of it, improvise, adapt to the environment, Darwin, shit happens, I Ching, whatever man, we gotta roll with it.
~Vincent (Collateral, 2004)
Change has been an ever going thing on this world. It affects everything. Businesses are always changing. With these changes comes new methods and strategies brought on by new [...]
Better Management: Train Your Staff to Bring You Solutions
It’s not uncommon to find your staff telling you problems about this and that and then asking for solutions. Often times your staff presents you with problems that they themselves can answer.
Train you staff to bring you solutions. Whenever your staff presents you with a problem, follow-up with, “What do you think we should do [...]
Better Management: Understand Roles
When I was a new manager I thought I had to know everything. I had to be as good or even better than any of my staff at their work. I thought, “If I am the manager then I should be the best at everything”. Soon thereafter I tried to learn more about the specialized [...]