December 12, 2008
2 Key Business Management Skills To Build Trust
If you trust others in your team, they will trust you.
A manager must develop an ability to trust others and create an environment of trust throughout the workplace. Really, it is better to assume the trustworthiness of employees to start with, rather than waiting for them to earn it.
Team members find it much easier to trust their manager if they feel trusted themselves.
Being honest In everything will build trust more.
Being open and honest is a key ingredient for generating trust. When you are open about your vision, actions and intentions, you will usually generate strong support.
Both good and bad news should be openly shared, reducing gossip and internal politics.
By admitting mistakes and not trying to cover them up, shows any manager to be a normal human being, just like everyone else!
Filed under Developing Your People, Management Basics by Martin
Because a manager is interacting so intimately with all parties, he or she will instinctively have knowledge of what clicks, who should be made to work together with whom and how to deal with problems.
But while a manager by virtue of the nature of his work has to be an insider, working closely at the sharp-end of the business every day, the leader does not.
He can work from the sidelines and inspire change without even having a personal stake in what’s happening today.
Leadership is needed for future growth and development in any business. It is a strategic activity, requiring vision, creativity and market-wisdom.
Management is what gets work done; what brings today’s cash-flow and ensures the health of the business right now and in the foreseeable future.
It is the true force and inspiration behind any successful organization, without which, there would be no future.
Filed under Building the Future, Focus on Results, Management Basics by Martin
