Every beginning of the year, most of business organizations consider it the appropriate time to re-organize, move people either lateral or promote the most deserving employee. To the promoted employee, this means being in-charge of particular familiar tasks but the expectation of employer will now be on a higher level.
There are guide to taking charge effectively and these are:
- Be able to set priorities. There is an old teaching regarding setting of priorities. Health comes first, second is family and business comes third. Better acknowledge the first two priorities so that the third priority can be taken cared of.
- Have the ability to take care of tough problems and not delegate them. The leader need to be deeply, personally involved in challenging issues and policy.
- Establish standards of excellence. Anybody who accepts mediocrity is a person who compromises. When a leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.
- Have that sense of urgency. It is better to do something, recognizing that it may not be the right thing, than do nothing at all. When a leader does not have sense of urgency, the bottom drops out of the organization.
- Be diligent on details. Getting the facts is the key to good decision making.
- Get the commitment of subordinates. Pick out the employees who are committed. Example, a person who does not fly into town on the morning of the meeting but flies in the night before to make sure that gets to the meeting on time.
- Don’t waste time worrying about things that cannot do anything about. Don’t try to fix things that are impossible. Concentrate on the possible.
- Have the ability of accepting failure. No enterprise can innovate unless they are willing to accept some mistakes.
- Be firm but fair with people. Being firm means setting standards and asking for acceptable performance.
- Accomplish anything b having some fun.
January 21, 2011 |
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Every person encounters failures along their life’s journey. No matter how hard they try to reach their dreams and aspirations, sometimes there are things that will go wrong along the way. Success, in many cases, is gained through long endeavor, though occasionally, it is achieved with less difficulty. After all, the harder the person has to work for the attainment of an object. The possession of the object will be more appreciated.
Do not be discouraged because of failure, it will be best to begin over again. Throughout the entire planet people are beginning afresh, there is no individual or an entire household who have not learned the lesson of beginning over. There is rebuilding done at all times of the year like: a pulling down of half finished plans, a ripping out of false stitches and a new start being made. There is also rebuilding done in relationships among friends, co-workers, family, business associates and individuals in a community. Take fresh courage, and try again, no matter how difficult it may be.
Try to break a spider’s web and observe, the spider will set work immediately to repair the damage. Rob a beehive, and the little occupants will go on making cells and gathering fresh stores of honey. Brush down an anthill, and the busy little ants will go to cleaning out the rubbish and rebuilding the demolished house at once.
It is always credible for every individual to be willing to begin afresh.
What is to be discussed are the general qualities and characteristics which lead to sound decision-making, and the kind of people who have them.
The characteristic or quality needed above all others in decision-makers is courage. This does not mean physical courage but it means moral courage. This is the kind of courage that enables any individual to face up to responsibilities and accept a position when the situation requires it.
Lack of moral courage excludes many in a different way highly qualified men and women from the executive levels. There was a study conducted by a laboratory of psychological studies among unsuccessful executives. They concluded that the principal reason for these executives’ failure is their inability to make decisions, which is the most common reason than lack of specific knowledge or technical know how.
By nature, human beings detest to make decision. It is generally more comfortable not to make decision. Almost everyone is conscious of this desire to put-off deciding. There are a few that are fully aware of the extent to which habitual inability to make decision interferes with the realization of full potentials and the attainment of goals in life.
Based on psychologists’ further study, they have discovered that every individual indulges in all kinds of unconscious techniques to cover up indecisiveness and these are:
- To procrastinate and just do not get involve in doing things.
- To allow and be controlled by chance, or just leave decisions to someone else.
- To make unclear the issues at times to some extent that leaves no basis upon which to make a decision.
In any organization, there are situations wherein people are unable to put their acts together that usually results to failure or inability to achieve and deliver company expectations. These scenarios inevitably happens when the key people involved in an organization is incapable of building team spirit in their workplace.
Here are some techniques where every employee can help in building team spirit:
- Find a reason for working together. Think of how the success of the team project will be beneficial personally, to the team and the company. Determine what is it about the team goals and objectives that when achieved will bring satisfaction to every team member. Encourage and help others discover the answer for themselves.
- Show genuine interest and concern in helping and supporting the other team members. Fellow team members may withdraw and just leave others to participate in achieving team goals and objectives if they do not feel they are an integral part of the operations. Encourage participation of every team member and attentively listen to suggestion of others.
- Be determine and committed in achieving team’s goals and objectives. For a team to succeed, every member must feel that the group’s goal s and objectives are important and that their success as a team is as important as successfully completing a project personally..
A reminder to every team member: It is better not to wait for the team leader to take action – help by taking the first step personally.
Mr. Webster defines fairway as the mowed strip between tee and putting green for playing golf. A good executive and a champion golfer have something in common and that is, they both know how to avoid pitfalls.
The fairway of delegation is lined with the following pitfalls:
Patience in delegating – The virtue of patience is an important element in delegating. An executive must not expect subordinates to achieve the same level of performance in less time than it took him.
Effectiveness In monitoring – Monitoring, being one of an executive’s management functions must be executed effectively. Delegated tasks are necessary to be monitored but not to the extent of breathing down the subordinate’s neck. Subordinates need a reasonable amount of freedom, independence and trust from his superior to prove his ability.
In Semi-delegation – Delegate tasks according to job functions and corresponding responsibilities to qualified subordinates. These subordinates must be given the necessary support and available tools that are needed to be able to accomplish the tasks successfully.
In communication – The whole process of an effective delegation which starts from the beginning of a project until its completion requires a good communication by enumerating exactly how the project has to be done and what are the expected results.
In previous failures – An executive, who delegated an important task but failed to accomplish it, has the usual tendency of being a do-it-yourself executive. Executives must bear in mind that failure in delegation is rarely the subordinates fault.
