Assess your management competencies...
Think about how you...
Manage self:
- demonstrate emotional and social intelligence
- demonstrate ethics and integrity
- manage priorities
- able to make and stick with decisions
- master detail
- willing to assume full responsibility
- a keen sense of what’s fair
- doing more than you are paid for
- self motivated
- display drive and purpose
- exhibit appropriate status
- open to learning
- manage yourself well
- self-aware
- adaptable / flexible
- manage and lead by example first
- creating a work -life balance
- managing stress
Manage for the company:
- lead and manage change
- solve problems and make decisions
- manage politics and influence others
- manage risks
- manage workloads
- enhance business skills and knowledge
- understand the market and how to navigate the organisation
- create and exploit new opportunities, products and services
- drive market leadership
Manage others:
- communicate effectively
- demonstrate empathy
- put people first
- inspire others
- build self esteem
- help people to grow and develop
- encourage and facilitate self mastery
- encourage responsibility and accountability
- capture hearts and minds
- create a culture of innovation and creativity
- promote and facilitate work life balance
- help people to manage and reduce stress
- value diversity and difference
- build and maintain relationships
- manage effective teams and work groups
What are the most important competencies for managers in your area of the business? Starting with the list below make a note of the core 5 - 8 competencies ...
- flexible
- entrepreneurial
- able to multi task
- diplomatic and nurturing
- experienced
- enthusiastic
- knowledgeable
- good at networking
- values diversity and difference
- sets clear targets
- knows how to motivate individual team members
- understands their strengths and weaknesses
- gives and invites regular feedback
return to managing upwards, downwards and sideways...