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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