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.