Many managers over-use certain styles of management, and need to build their strength in other styles.
Monday’s Tip: Determine if you over-use a management style. Think about your performance as a manager in the past month. Have you been dropping the hammer too much? Have you been disappointed by people because you consistently fail to hold them to account? You need to be able to use a variety of leadership styles to be effective as a manager.
Tuesday’s Tip: Act with appropriate urgency. We sometimes like to think everything is urgent all the time, but your business situation will determine your degree of urgency. If you in a turnaround situation, for example, then you should be very impatient. Under normal business circumstances, you should reel-in your level of urgency.
Wednesday’s Tip: Gather the right level of information. Some situations call for a leadership style that requires making decisions quickly. Other situations are better handled by gathering more information before making a decision. Both are correct – which one is most appropriate in your situation?
Thursday’s Tip: Consider your business situation when determining your priorities this week. Your priorities during the start of phase of a project, are much different than those when a project is up and running. Yet some people fail to adjust their priorities accordingly.
Friday’s Tip: Make sure others understand the business situation. You have spent this week examining how you should act and react based on your business situation. Make sure your people, and other stakeholders understand how you view the business situation