Managers - Roles and Responsibilities.

What makes good managers? Let's take a look first at the definition.

A person who manages, conducts, trains, manipulates, directs, deals, supervises, organizes and controls resources, expenditures, an organization, an institution, a team, a household, etc.

What are the roles and responsibilities of a managerial position?

1. Supervise and manage the overall performance of staff in his department.
   
   
   
2. Analyzing, reporting, giving recommendations and developing strategies on how to improve quality and quantity.
   
   
   
3. Achieve business and organization goals, visions and objectives.
   
   
   
4. Involved in employee selection, career development, succession planning and periodic training.
   
   
   
5. Working out compensations and rewards.
   
   
   
6. Responsible for the growth and increase in the organizations' finances and earnings.
   
   
   
7. Identifying problems, creating choices and providing alternatives courses of actions.

If you want cooperation from your team or employees, pay attention. Practice empathy and respect the personal values, opinions and ideas with the people you interact with. Listen and respond and offer praises and encouragements when they make progress. By doing that you will enhance their self esteem build trust.

As the boss, your ability to develop trust and confidence, resolve problems and issues will result in a productive, goal oriented work group. You should encourage your team to ask for help, get involved and participate.

A manager is the middle person in between the top management level and the team that reports to him. He has to ensure that communication is smooth and conveyed clearly to avoid misinterpretations and dissatisfaction. It's useful to develop your negotiation and customer service skills, especially if you deal with clients.

In order for you to achieve long term goals and commit to strategies for substantial earnings, you have to communicate the vision of the company to your subordinates. You break down and clarify the goals that each team or individual have to perform and assign work schedules and strategies.

It also involves thinking and planning out strategies on how to improve quality and also being cost conscious and effective. Having goals and planning out the directions allow for effective time management and saves cost and resources.

The daily routine of making decisions include determining how to approach an employee who is not performing or lacking progress and how to bring about change to the organization and its team. It is essential that your day to day decision is based on what's important, what's right and not who's right.

Your position entails you to guide and give direction so that the team can perform effectively. You offer on the job coaching, training and support. In order for individuals to meet the needs and objectives, they may need extra input, information or skills.

The performance of your team depends on your abilities to empower them. How well a person performs depends on his motivation. Your task as the boss is to encourage and coach others to improve themselves and the quality of their work. You need to instill in them the desire to excel and accept responsibility and self management.

You need to have the capacity to evaluate and examine a process or procedure and decide on the best choice to produce an outcome. You look at the importance, quality and values and then taking the best approach.

You are also expected to track the progress of each individual's activities and effectiveness, review them and offer feedback and counseling.

Provide satisfaction

Your subordinates are happy when they are provided with the necessary tools and resource. They feel secure if the management puts priority on health, safety and cleanliness issues. And you satisfy customers by giving good quality of service or product and take care of their needs.

Keep updated on new and different methods and technologies.

Become the agent of positive change to your team and an expertise in your line of work. Keep yourself updated on methods and technologies that can help make you and your team more efficient.

Become an exemplary role model.

Managers who set high standards or goals and achieve them are great leaders by examples. The ability to tolerate stress and remain poise under job pressures and still maintain a high activity and energy level are contagious. Set the example by being accountable for your own activities and performance. Work harder on your personal growth and you will become a respected and efficient leader.

Additional Resources

The Secrets of Basic Management Skills Training Course

Best Management Books

Hard-Wired For Influence

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