Consider you have an issue with another person. Is your first instinct as a manager to take any action or you will try to make a negotiation session with the other party to find acceptable solutions for that issue? Great managers use a win-win negotiation process to find solutions when what they won’t conflict with…
Building self-confidence is an extremely important skill and it helps you to succeed in your life. The people who lack self-confidence struggle in their life and they find anything difficult and they always are afraid to do something different. And the people always don’t back any project with a person who doesn’t have self-confidence. On…
As the manager you have many issues; you confront questions and problems, your decisions usually make big impacts and it is your responsibility to accomplish the organization’s objectives and motivate and mentor your team. With all these issues How to be a good manager. To be a good manager you should be focused on how…
Decisions are made constantly at every level in the organization. Decision making includes strategic decisions, managerial decisions, routine operational decisions, and even personal decisions. So any person makes decisions but only good people make effective decisions that make a difference. Many people find it hard to make effective decisions, but unfortunately, we all have to…
How Managers Become Leaders. Few career transitions are more difficult than making the jump from unit-level manager to company-level executive. Career transition expert “Michael Watkins” interviewed executives, leadership mentors, and HR professionals, and identified seven key changes new leaders need to be successful. He calls them seismic shifts. 1- Managers become leaders by shifting from…
Being a great boss means recognizing that each employee needs something different from you. Marcus Buckingham examined Gallup surveys of 80,000 managers and found that the top performers discover and capitalize on what is unique about each employee. What great managers do. Great managers think carefully about people’s strengths and quirks, and figure out ways…
All managers face issues every day that need decisions; decisions about managing employees, and resources, and setting plans and strategies. And to do that, there are two ways to make a decision, the Intuitive way and the rational decision-making way. In the last article (Effective decision making) we’ve discussed how to make Effective decisions, and in this…
Every day I work with leaders who ask me how they can find great leadership, great leadership in themselves, and great leadership in those around them; and they’re not asking how they become the next Mandela or the next King or the next Gandhi. They’re asking how they in their own lives can find the…
All right! It’s a good place to start obviously asking the question what is leadership? When we look at leadership, that’s easier sometimes to start with what it isn’t? Leadership is not about position or title or seniority: I think it’s important to show that leadership definitely has nothing to do with your position or…
One of the million-dollar questions that organizations want to know is: How do I motivate my workforce? How do we engage the employees that work for us? If we’re going to think about how to motivate employees; we need to understand and get underneath the hood of what drives human behavior in the workplace; why…
In this article I’d like to share with you the 6 ways to motivate employees; that will actually help you hire and motivate top performing individuals. Now when you think about employee motivation I personally think a lot of people miss the boat; how to get people all fired up; that’s all great; but I’m…
Hold on for a minute. Are you one of those 92 percent of people who never achieve their goal? A person who never becomes rich in his life and does not live a quality life. Such people who always blame their surroundings, parents, school, and Govt. for their failures. I bet you are not of…