TEN FACTS ABOUT SUCCESSFUL MANAGERS

MANAGERIAL SKILLS AND HABITS


Every field of human endeavor needs great leaders and managers; great organizations are willing to pay what it takes to get good managers; you too can be a successful one only if you are ready to work on yourself. The following are the identified characteristics of successful mangers under three basic categories.

A. Basic knowledge and information that managers must have or may need to use in making decisions and taking action.

1. COMMAND OF BASIC FACTS: Successful managers know what’s what in
their organization. They have a command of such basic facts as goals and plans (long -and –short –term), product knowledge, who’s who in the organization, the roles and relationship between various departments, their own job and what is expected of them. If they don’t have all this information at hand, they know where to get it when they need it


2 RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE: This quality includes
technical knowledge, (e.g., production technology), marketing techniques, engineering knowledge, relevant legislation, sources of finance, and knowledge of basic background management principles and theories (e.g., planning, organization, and control).

Special skills and attributes that directly affect behavior and performance.

3. CONTINUING SENSITIVITY TO EVENTS: Succesful managers’sensitivity
to events enables them to tune into what is going on around them. They open themselves up to hard information (such as figures and facts) and to soft information(such as the feelings of others.).Managers with this sensitivity respond appropriately to situations as they arise.


4. PROACTIVE INCLINATION TO RESPOND PURPOSEFULLY TO
EVENTS: Effective managers have goals to achieve rather than merely
responding to demand. They plan carefully in advance, but they also respond
emergencies .When making such responses, effective managers consider
long term aims and goals. Less successful managers respond to pressures
in relatively uncritical ways. This ability includes qualities such as seeing a
job through, being dedicated, having a sense of mission, and taking
responsibility for things that happen rather than passing the buck.


5. ANALYTICAL, PROBLEM-SOLVING AND DECISION/JUDGEMENT-
MAKING SKILLS: Managers concern themselves with decision making
skills. Managers concern themselves with decision making. Therefore, they must
develop judgment –making skills, including the ability to cope with uncertainty.
they need also to strike a balance between allowing subjective feelings to guide
them without completely throwing out objective logic.

6. SOCIAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Managers need interpersonal skills to
communicate, delegate, negotiate, resolve conflict, persuade, sell, use, and
Respond to authority and power.

Personal Qualities:

7. EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE: Emotional stress arises in managerial positions
positions because they work in situations that involve authority, leadership
power, interpersonal conflict, meeting deadlines, all with some degree of
uncertainty and ambiguity. Successful managers need resiliency to cope.

8. MENTAL AGILITY AND CREATIVITY: Mental agility includes the
ability to grasp problems quickly, to think of several things at once, to switch
rapidly from one situation to another, to see quickly the whole situation
(rather than ponderously plough through all its components), and to “think
on one’s facts”. Creativity means the ability to come up with new responses and to
recognize useful approaches. It involves not only having fresh ideas, but also the
ability to recognize good ideas when they come from other sources.

9. BALANCED LEARNING HABITS AND SKILLS: Successful managers learn
independently. They take responsibility for the rightness of what they learn, rather
passively depending on an authority figure or expert. Successful managers can
think abstractly as concretely. They relate concrete ideas to abstract ones (and vice
versa) rather quickly. This ability sometimes known as a “helicopter mind”
enables them to generate theories and to develop their own practical ideas.

10. SELF – AWARENESS: The way managers view their roles affects their values,
feelings, strengths and weaknesses, an a host of other personal factors. Therefore,
we must help them be aware of their abilities and the part they play in determining
leadership behavior.


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Eight Keys to Success

Who among us does not want to be successful? Everybody wants to achieve some level of success whether it be in their personal life or in the business world. Below are eight keys to success that everyone should follow in their daily routine.

1. Set Goals. By doing this you will be able to work towards success in a logical manner. Most people do not know how to find success, so they jump from area to area in hopes that it falls in their lap. And this rarely happens. Instead, you need to set goals so that you are aware of the direction that you are moving in. After you successfully meet and conquer one goal, you will then want to move on to your next one. After a while, you will see your self-confidence rise and your success increase.
2. Find inspiration for your goals. If you are aspiring to be the top sales manager in your company, look for inspiration from somebody who has been there before. Inspiration can often be found in the most surprising places. Many people turn to books in order to find somebody to look up to. This is a great way in finding someone to look up to that is already successful.
3. Plan out your day in correspondence with your goals. In order to reach your goals you are going to have to know how to get there. By setting out a daily step-by-step process, you will be able to reach smaller goals that will eventually lead you to the big goal at the end.
4. Pay attention to your progress. At the end of every day make sure that you look back and see if you did what you needed to do in order to reach your goal. If you did not, find out why, and then come up with a way to solve this problem in the future.
5. Don’t give up. There is no reason to ever give up on your goal. If you do, it is your own fault. By sticking with your daily steps, you will get to your goal sooner or later. The only thing that can stop you is quitting.
6. Look forward to the end. By visualizing what it will be like to reach your goal, you will be pushed to work harder.
7. Think positive. You never want to tell yourself that you cannot reach your goal or that you are failing. By thinking positive you will always be on the right track to success.
8. Appreciate the opportunity. By appreciating the opportunity to reach your goal you are already halfway to the end result. Do not lose sight of why you want to be successful.

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Kent Jacobson
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