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Many
of us often feel we get more done when the boss is out of
the office NOT managing us. At the same time, Senior Directors
frequently find themselves wishing everyone could
Manage
without Management!
Why
does Management take so much time?
In small
organisations, management is minimal. Everyone sits together,
and gets on with the work at hand.
There
is usually great clarity about what must be done, and there
are few formal performance management processes, because everyone
can see all the time what is happening.
In
larger organisations, however, huge amounts of time and energy
are devoted to try to re-create the clarity and immediacy
of a small organisation.
Clarity
Many
of us have ‘task clarity', fewer of us have ‘results clarity'.
Try to make sure that all your team know what the end result
of their activity is meant to be. That means, everyone has
a clear Line of Sight between their activity and specific
departmental organisational goals.
If
you need help with this, check out the
Line of Sight Wizard™.
Communication
You
may think your team already know exactly what they need to
do and how they contribute to the big picture, but the chances
are they don't.
Most
managers over-rate their communication and goal setting skills,
and believe their teams are much better informed than they
actually are.
Creativity
Encourage
everyone to use their brain to think about what they are doing,
and how it could be done better/ faster/ cheaper or perhaps
not at all.
Use
Management
Development training to drive an attitude of ‘what must
be done to get the results' rather than ‘what must be done'.
Process is important, but it's a means to an end, not an end
in itself. Problem solving is a driver of innovation.
If your
managers are tough with themselves and others on these three
Cs, you will find that the need for ‘management' reduces significantly.
Your managers will be less stressed and have more time to
drive the business forward:
- Having absolute Clarity about the ‘big
picture' results
- Communicating both the big picture and
the daily progress effectively and repeatedly to their team
- Demanding a Creative, can-do approach to
delivering the results
No prizes for guessing where our name
‘3C' comes from!
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