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Leadership Skills Training Get Serious About Management Training Not enough managers take management seriously. That's the feeling many of my consulting associates and I get while knocking our heads against walls trying to market better management practices. Unfortunately, in some large bureaucracies, "management" is just a job title, a badge, or a trophy and not perceived to be a function. Managers who take management seriously seem to follow these rules. Get to know your subordinates well. You ought to be able to list all their strengths and weaknesses. Make a point of holding regular group and individual meetings with employees to discuss problems, issues, concerns, new plans and to solicit their ideas. Ask your employees for their feedback on your performance, especially on your skill at giving clear direction. Play the appropriate role. Set the example by your own behavior; have a passion for excellence, pro-action and teamwork; but keep your cool. Captain Jean Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Starship Enterprise isn't such a bad role model. Hold all your employees personally accountable for their on-the-job behavior and performance. Bend over backwards to ensure everyone knows what to do and how to do it. Make it hard to misunderstand your directions or to fail. Your job is to make sure everyone becomes a success. Have the guts to confront employee performance problems fast. Never procrastinate or turn a blind eye to poor work or inappropriate behavior. Manage your supervisors and see to it that they all manage their people properly and constructively. Do you really know what they're doing when they supervise? Give everyone credit, praise and recognition when it's earned. Never hog achievements in which others participated. Continuously enhance the self esteem of all your employees, at every interaction, even when correcting poor work. Place "people management" at the top of your priorities; but then plan and spend the time to do it. It's not an add-on but a significant part of your time commitment. If it's your own company, build your good management practices into the business. In today's knowledge society, people are not (surprisingly) your most important asset. Your most important assets are your knowledge, skills and abilities (including your processes) to attract good people to your business, and to manage, motivate, train and develop them. Source: Robert H. Kent, Ph.D. link Related: Management Training Get Serious About Management Training