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Knowing Yourself
Know your innate qualities - ask
yourself: "Whether I produce results as a decision-maker or an adviser?"
If you are not a
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Decision Maker, don't take
decision-making assignments.
Understand your learning style:
how you absorb information better –
through
seeing, reading or through listening? Knowing your style is the first
thing to know about how you perform. Once you understand which is your
naturally dominant→
learning style you are in a position to
improve the way
you perform. "Don't try to
change yourself –
it is unlikely to be successful. But work, and hard, to improve the way you
perform. And try not to do work of any kind in a way you do not perform or
perform badly", advised
Peter Drucker.
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Work
Smart and
Hard
The awareness of how we do what we
do is the key to self-management and
influence.
Study what works for you and for others by practicing
NLP
technology of achievement principles in order to realize your true
potential.
Develop Yourself
Developing people
starts with the self. Aim to be the kind of manager who gets the best
from staff, and who does the best for them.
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Leadership-Management Synergy
Consider
your values as well as
your strengths, weaknesses, and personality. Carry out a
Strength-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (SWOT)
analysis on yourself.
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Learning SWOT
Questions
Do the
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feedback
analysis to show you where your strengths and weaknesses lie.
Based on this
information, form an
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action plan...
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Bottom-Up
Learning
For a manager, acceptance of the
status quo is deadly. You must demand honest and continuous
feedback from your constituencies.
Subject yourself to the 360 degree evaluation
process: ask not only your supervisors, but also your employees, customers,
and peers to rate your management performance. Promise anonymity to
encourage honest opinions.
Develop Others
Developing people is achieved by
careful, planned and motivational
delegation of responsibility and duty. Trust and know your colleagues.
Organizations are no longer built on force. They are built on
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empowerment
and
trust. Rather than
relying on your powers, provide a spur,
use the powers within people...
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The Tao
of
Leadership
Help Every Individual to
Find the Right
Fit
The manager's responsibility is to steer the
employees towards roles where they have the greatest chances of success...
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Coaching
One of the "hot" areas of
personal, professional, and business development is
coaching.
The coaching is all about helping others to identify and define their
specific
goals,
and then organize themselves to attain these goals.
Coaching deals with building an individual's personal skills, from
setting the goals, to
communication
to
management style to
decision making and
problem solving.
Coaches draw upon a client's inner knowledge, resources and
creativity to help him or her be more effective...
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