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Developing Yourself and Others |
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By Vadim Kotelnikov, Founder, Ten3 BUSINESS e-COACH – Innovation Unlimited, 1000ventures.com
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"It is vision and moral responsibility that, in the last analysis, define the manager" – Peter Drucker |
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Knowing Yourself Know your innate qualities - ask yourself: "Whether I produce results as a decision-maker or an adviser?" If you are not a decision-maker, don't take decision-making assignments. Understand your learning style: how you absorb information better – through seeing, reading or through listening? Knowing your style is the first thing to know about how you perform. Once you understand which is your naturally dominant learning style you are in a position to improve the way you perform. "Don't try to change yourself – it is unlikely to be successful. But work, and hard, to improve the way you perform. And try not to do work of any kind in a way you do not perform or perform badly", advised Peter Drucker. The awareness of how we do what we do is the key to self-management and influence. Study what works for you and for others by practicing NLP technology of achievement principles in order to realize your true potential. Developing Yourself Developing people starts with the self. Aim to be the kind of manager who gets the best from staff, and who does the best for them.
Consider your values as well as your strengths,
weaknesses, and personality. Carry out a
Strength-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (SWOT)
analysis on yourself. One of the essential values is honesty. If you are
honest with yourself, you will treat other people honestly too. Never work
with an organization whose values are unacceptable to you. Do the feedback analysis to show you where your strengths and weaknesses lie. Based on this information, form an action plan. Concentrate on your strengths and waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. Ask everyone who works with you to form and adopt an action plan. Test your knowledge to develop your abilities for managing and being managed by considering the following questions:
Work towards a positive answer to each of them. Use "the mirror test" and make sure you pass it. It consists of one question: "What kind of persons do I want to see when I shave myself, or put on my lipstick, in the morning?" Building Your Cross-Functional Excellence
Developing people is achieved by careful, planned and motivational delegation of responsibility and duty. Trust and know your colleagues. "Organizations are no longer built on force. They are built on trust." Rather than relying on your powers, provide a spur, use the powers within people. You also have a "relationship responsibility" for those with whom you work. It is an absolute necessity and it is a duty. Personality conflicts arise mostly because "one person does not know what the other person does", or how that is done, or its contribution, or the expected results. Make sure everybody understands what your business is really about and what is their role and the role of their colleagues in it. Coaching One of the "hot" areas of personal, professional, and business development is coaching. The coaching is all about helping others to identify and define their specific goals, and then organize themselves to attain these goals. Coaching deals with building an individual's personal skills, from setting the goals, to communication to management style to decision making and problem solving. Coaches draw upon a client's inner knowledge, resources and creativity to help him or her be more effective...More
Develop Yourself: The Six-Step Action Plan... Bottom-Up Learning... Coaching Yourself... New Management Model... Helping Every Individual to Find the Right Fit... Five Key Experiences That Help Employees Develop and Grow... The Eternal Tasks of Management... Two Common Traits of Great Leaders and Managers... Four Keys To Great Managers... Building Management Team... Management Is All About Perceptions... Advanced Management Program (AMP)... Employee Empowerment... Systems Thinking... Knowing Yourself and Others... Harnessing the Power of Diversity... Emotional Intelligence (EI)... Persuading People... Instant Payoff Coaching... Inspiring People... Energizing People... Flat Organizational Structures The Fun Factor... 360 Degree Evaluation and Feedback...
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