Management Essentials: A Practical Guide (Optimise) PDF
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You're a successful professional. Undoubtedly, you've worked hard to gain experience and grow professionally, which has made you good at what you do. But, as a manager, in addition to being good at your own job, you have to excel at directing others. And this can be a complex task.
Managing people isn't straightforward and does present challenges. At any time, you may be called upon to act in various capacities – counselor, confidant, peacekeeper, motivator, leader, or disciplinarian, to name a few.
As a manager, you're responsible for developing resources. You don't have the option of coming to work and focusing solely on your own assignments. You must supervise, lead, develop, and direct the individuals under your supervision to help them realize their full potential and better contribute to the team and organization.
Another key role of management is to act to ensure the efficient and effective use of resources to accomplish goals. For you, this means accomplishing organizational goals while successfully directing others and making efficient and effective use of resources.
This book presents information on the key proficiencies required to effectively direct others and accomplish goals. Directing others is a complex and challenging task, but certain practices can help you with this:setting direction and pace by establishing clear goals and objectives with your direct reports organizing company resources to best accomplish its goals, and communicating for direction and clarity by using effective listening skills and overcoming barriers to communicatio
With an improved understanding of your responsibilities to your direct reports, and of the practices covered in this course, you'll be better prepared to direct others as part of your management duties.
Even when managers are overburdened, they can still find it difficult to delegate tasks to others.
Handing off even low-level routine tasks can be time-consuming – it requires explaining how to do the task and giving the person time to get up to speed. This requires focused effort and managers often feel it's just faster to do the task themselves.
Managers may also have difficulty passing off responsibilities when their employees are busy too.
And handing off important or complex tasks requires a high degree of trust in the person you delegate to.
As a manager, you may feel you're the only person who knows how to do the job well. If failure can have significant consequences, it may seem better not to delegate.
So why should you delegate tasks? Delegating tasks that can be done by others frees you up to address the tasks you should be focusing on. At the same time, delegating can be a good way to develop your employees. If you hone your delegation skills and prepare your direct reports thoroughly for success, they'll get the chance to take on new tasks, learn new things, and assume more responsibility. Challenging others leads to increased motivation and better morale.
In this course, you'll learn about the importance of planning when delegating tasks. Planning your delegation includes identifying the tasks that could and should be handled by others, deciding who to delegate to, and determining what information they'll need to get the job done.
You'll also learn about techniques for delegating tasks, which focus on providing all the necessary details to the person you're delegating to and ensuring understanding. The importance of monitoring delegated tasks and providing ongoing support and encouragement is also explained.
After learning about these techniques, you'll have an opportunity to apply some of the best practices for delegating tasks in a realistic scenario.
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