Good and Bad Managers

A friend of mine, Doug Walker, author of the book, A-ha! Performance, shared something with me that I’d like to share with you.  In a discussion about managers – and without getting into an argument of whether people are inherently good or evil – let’s just say we’re all human and have basic needs.

Managers have such needs, but when they meet their own needs at the expense of their employees, we consider them bad managers.  When they meet their needs without adversely affecting their employees’ needs, we consider them okay.  But when they meet their needs by helping employees meet their needs, we consider them good managers.  And when managers on occasion meet their employees’ needs almost at a cost to their own needs, we consider them outstanding, even sometimes heroic.

Think about this and ask yourself what kind of manager you are, and what kind of manager you want to be.  It should cause you to pause and possibly even redirect your attention to what is important.  For a manager’s job is to get results for a business by helping employees be part of the team’s success.  The question is, are you doing that?  Are you doing all you can to help your employees be successful, or do you take advantage of your position and let your needs or your ego get in the way?

Here are a few Business & Life Tips to think about….

Business Tips:

• Tension and fear in the workplace impact performance. By relieving the tension, you breathe life back into your business.
• It’s a leader’s role to use resources in such a way as to benefit customers and ultimately benefit the business and its employees.
• Even good managers need a disciplined approach to their daily routine. We all need to be accountable to someone.

Life Tips:

• A healthy ego leads to success. An unhealthy ego leads to failure and destructive relationships. Check your ego to ensure its healthy.
• If you continue to beat people up over mistakes they make, it will cause them to take fewer risks and to contract instead of grow.
• Extraordinary people are ordinary people who put in extra time and attention to accomplish extraordinary things. Period.

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