Do You Have the Courage to Rate Yourself as a Manager?
If you have a problem in your organisation, look up the ladder and not down for its cause.
Progress and Management Training – Can you rate yourself as a manager?
One of the behaviours I have been advocating for many years for managers is that they carefully and routinely evaluate the areas where they have made progress and where they have not.
Your results as a manager are evident from the achievements you have accomplished and the challenges, failures, and unmet goals that were for whatever reason not realised.
Self Evaluation
There are many benefits to this type of activity and yet many managers are either too busy or too stressed. Or just unwilling to take the time to conduct a thorough self-evaluation of their strengths, weaknesses, failures, or self-development needs.
I have been sharing ideas, concepts, and techniques with managers around the world for years. On how to improve organisation performance and employee productivity. And it still amazes me how few have the courage or interest in looking in periodically the mirror with an eye on getting better. Do you have the courage to rate yourself as a manager?
Look To Leadership
One of the fundamental principles I teach in my management training is:
If you have a problem in your organisation, look up the ladder and not down for its cause.
If you are not willing to take full responsibility for the outcomes, behaviours, attitudes, or failures in your organisation. Then you might want to consider a job as a Wal-Mart Greeter.
Quarterly Review Process
One easy way to accomplish this activity is with my 3/3/3 Quarterly Review Process.
This simple device is used by managers and line managers as well as employees for both a top-down and bottom-up evaluation of skill and attitude development needs.
It is currently being used by dozens of organisations and hundreds of employees and managers.
It really doesn’t matter what device, system, or strategy you use to determine your progress or development as a manager, executive, or business owner. As long as you use something that has integrity, reality, honesty, and timeliness.
Self Development
You can’t just sit there in a limbo state of performance.
If you are not getting better most likely you are getting worse as a manager.
If you are getting better it is important to determine if you are improving in the right areas and in the right ways.
But if I can see that you are a manager or executive who is unwilling to rate yourself as a manager and accept honest bottom-up feedback from employees, customers, or the marketplace. Then I will show you a manager that is most likely sabotaging the performance and success of their organisation.
New Managers
If you are a new manager it is vital that you develop the right attitudes and approaches to developing yourself and your employees.
Yes, it takes time, commitment, money, and energy to get better. But in the long run, it is far better to improve your people, management, and leadership skills than to assume that yesterday’s knowledge, approaches, and philosophies are still relevant today.
This article was contributed by Tim Connor
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