Learn the Best Management Practices
Best management practices require certain skills. If you are a
manager, you can improve your current management skills and
develop the others to ensure your success as a manager.


The first step into gaining the best management practices is to
avoid the bad image of managers. We see a lot of bad
managers are work. If you are luck enough to never have
faced one, check a movie. Managers never have to be
flamboyant, drinker, smoker, or loud.



Popular managers are quiet, modest, humble, and listened
well. This makes being a popular manager easy; Yes it is. Just
have the common sense to understand what is required from
you as a manager and what is around you and handle both in
a common sense.

Best management practices depend on the work place
environment. In large organizations, your options to exercise
the best management options might be bounded by the
culture and corporate policies of the organization. In such
situations, implement the best management practices with
patience. Never fight the system. Work with it instead. Do
what is possible and suggest what is best for the corporation.
Remember, you just an employee number if large
organizations.



In smaller companies, your options might be smoother to
implement the best management practices as smaller
companies tend to have a more flexible culture and company
policies. Once your prove yourself to be a milestone,
implementing your learned best management practices will be
easier for your and for the company, because you are
milestone rather than a number.


Exercising these best management practices boils down to
your management level that you are currently in.

During our long working experience, we believe popular and
good managers practiced best management practices because
they possessed the basic management skills. Also, we noticed
that good managers have the leadership characteristics. This
might lead your to question the management vs leadership
differences.



In summary, these are the best management practices that
could make you the sought after manager at your work place:

  • Protector from office politics
  • Provider of information
  • Facilitator of career development
  • Sensitivity to your team members
  • Compassion
  • Determination
  • Courage
  • Commitment
  • Motivate
  • Confidence
  • Wisdom
  • Expertise and knowledge
  • Integrity
  • Honesty
  • Fairness - treating everyone equally and on merit.
  • Caring for team members
  • Never getting emotionally negative with people
  • Firm and clear in dealing with bad or unethical behavior
  • Be a good listener
  • Neutral
  • Decisiveness in making all types of decisions
  • Keep your promises: Never renege
  • Friendly
  • Praise loudly and blame softly. Never ever shout!

Good balancing ability between your team’s capabilities,
making profit and the social and environmental responsibilities
of the corporate.

Leading by example - always be seen to be working harder
and more determinedly than anyone else.

Come first to the office and leave last of possible.
Big shoulders: Accept the blame the responsibility if things go
wrong on behalf of your team. Backing-up and supporting your
team members.
Give your team the credit for your successes.
Never promote your self, promote your team members. Your
success promotes you.

Be honest but sensitive in the way that you give bad news or
criticism.
Learn to become expert at what you and you team are
supposed to do technically. This enables you to appreciate
your team’s abilities and challenges.

Encourage your team members to grow by showing them the
way, train them on the job or formally at the pace they can
handle.
Stay positive no matter how the situation is bad. Keep smiling
and encourage others to be happy and enjoy themselves.
Break down the barriers and get to know your team members
closely, feel their problems, challenges to understand their
capabilities better.
Planning and prioritizing.
Exhibit your time management skills and teach others to do
the same.
Involving your people in your thinking and especially in
managing change.




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