Effective Supervisory Management |
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How does a manager or an entrepreneur pass the 8 tests below?
1. PLANNING – Prepare to overcome obstacles before they occur. Develop clearly defined objectives a then make sure that they are achieved.
2. ORGANISATION – Combine the right amount of time, manpower and funds for any given project, while keeping waste to a minimum.
3. CONTROLLING – Supervising subordinates and their work.
4. SETTING PERFORMANCE STANDARDS – Determine what results might be expected from his subordinates.
5. APPRAISING PERFORMANCE – Assessing the performance and the value of each employee to the organisation.
6. COMMUNICATION – Can he indicate to his subordinates precisely what he wants? Can he maintain a liaison with his own supervisors.
7. MOTIVATION – Getting that “extra” effort from subordinates, without compromising employee morale.
8. APPLYING DECISION MAKING TECHNIQUES – Every action (of any consequence at all) that a supervisor takes, involves a decision making process in order to arrive at an effective decision which will achieve the desired results?
Some, of course, never do! Others do it by trial and error; by making mistakes and (hopefully) by profiting from them.But there is a more efficient way than the one above!
We can prepare you and your managers for the job by preparing to “manage”. This means: preparing to plan, to organise and to control; preparing to communicate and to motivate more effectively; preparing to put more quality into our/their decision making. In short, we and they can be prepared to apply the same managerial techniques that other, “first-time” managers have had to learn to use in order for them to make the successful transition from “follower” to “leader”.