Case Study--- Personalize Your Management Development
As I am reading the case, Personalize Your Management Development, I really touched by the author and I really learned a lot from the case. As everyone knows, different people have their different characteristics so they will have their own principle and procedure to deal things. Therefore, the different characteristics made the different working styles as manager. As a company, you will have a lot of different managers so personalize the specific management development projects are really essential to the company. After I read the case, I have a general sense about the different kinds of managers in company and I can imagine what they will do in management. In the case, the author
…show more content…
The author told one of them that they are really talented but they are not fooling anyone. After that the author tried some other ways to change those people and the more they proved themselves able to learn from others, the more successful they would be. At the end the author found out that most of those managers are using a self-deprecating honesty to replace the phony self-confidence.
Thirdly, the author introduced a kind of people who are unknown leader. Those people have the right blend of confidence and leadership skills, but they fail to develop relationships outside of a small circle of colleagues. In my opinion, those people are something like the reluctant one. Because they all have the ability to lead the team but they lack a necessary confidence of leading. What is more, this kind of unknown leader are seldom make network to other staffs in the company. So the author firstly tried to let them aware that they will not get promoted if they didn 't begin to network. Namely, asking them to start talking and networking with others so that they could market for themselves. Therefore, the author tried to train them from the first beginning, which is make them become more comfortable meeting and talking with new people. After a period of exercise, those managers aware that they are natural ability to think analytically and drive to a deeper level in conversations impressed others. Besides, the people who are talking with them will also feel
This concept of being a manager who leads is a continuous blend. In clarification she goes on to say that a manager deals with present day issues and concerns. This is a very important aspect of managing and quite a lot can be accomplished with this focus in mind. In order to be a leader you must look beyond today and focus on the future. A leader must be a true visionary. Being able to handle everyday issues and problems while planning for the future are qualities that all leaders must master if they are to truly be successful. For this reason it is vital to have insight, practice forward thinking, and demonstrate the ability to make strategic decisions further improving what is already established. In addition a leader must develop, initiate, and promote their ideas and values. A leader must possess the ability to unite a group of otherwise separate individuals into one humongous group. Most importantly they must focus them to work under a common philosophy with valued goals in mind. Leaders must be proactive in collaborating with others around them. The collaboration must take place with individuals that are equal in position as well as those above and below them. In other words a leader must listen and acknowledge all suggestions, while taking an active part in coaching or developing them further if appropriate. Lastly but equally as important, as a leader you must have authority. This power if you will should not be exerted routinely as it should be reserved
The management development programme will be based on each issue related to a typical organisation and their requirements in order to operate successfully and consistently. 3.1 Motivation: --------------- The success of an organisation is mainly reliant on the capability of a manager to offer an appealing atmosphere for which the remainder of the organisations can work peacefully and strive towards success. In most cases, the performance of employees within organisations can
What matters the most is what you do day by day over the long haul, explains the author. If you continually invest in your leadership and let your ‘assets’ compound, the inevitable result is growth overtime. While some are born with greater natural gifts than others, the ability to lead is really a collection of skills, with nearly all of which can be learned and improved. You can be a good leader if you want to, since everyone has the potential to be one, you just have to understand that you can’t accomplish it overnight. Leadership is complicated and has many facets, and it takes a lot of ‘seasoning’ to actually an effective leader. Whether you do or don’t have the natural ability for leadership, the author states that in the development and progress process probably occurred in the following four phases: Phase 1 being ‘I don’t know what I don’t know’ here a person doesn’t realize how valuable leadership is and believes it’s for people up the corporate ladder thus passing up the opportunity to learn how to lead. Phase 2 is ‘I know what I don’t know’ here you begin to realize the importance of learning how to lead and the learning process begins’. Phase 3 is ‘I grow and know and it starts to show’, in this phase you realize you lack skills and begin daily discipline of personal growth in leadership. In phase 4 ‘I simply go because of what I know’ is when you’re knowledgeable and your ability to lead
Managing people is not easy, because everyone is an individual personality and everyone has their own opinion. Everyday people face different problems and challenges. These problems maybe small or big, but those problems need to be solved. Every individual has his own characteristic to portray. Variation of individuals should be taken into consideration in managing them. Factors like
Some management styles may be best for the situation and some may not be. Therefore, awareness on different types of management styles will help the managers to handle different situations the optimal way. Different management styles are capable of handling different situations and solving different problems. Therefore, a manager should be a dynamic person, who has insight into many types of management styles such as:
Have you ever wondered if people are naturally inclined to look for a leader? Well if you weren’t before I bet you are wondering now. The answer is people are naturally inclined to look for a leader. It's not good to be inclined to look for a leader, but it's not all that bad either. What’s bad about being inclined to look for a leader is that the leader will not be there for you all your life. What are you going to do when they decide to leave? Like in the novel “The Wave” the students couldn’t help but notice the way Ben Ross got so interested and involved in the topic and they couldn’t help but get involved also. This shows me that leaders can motivate us to go places we would never otherwise go.
There are two types of people in the work field. One is the leader and one is the follower. The people in the management do not necessary they are meant to be the leader. There are many reasons that a person became a leader, it is more important how to be a successful leader. A successful leader is able to lead the team, inspire the team and help the team to succeed and grow. There are people are born natural to be a leader, and there are some people because a successful leader by experiences or inspiration from other successful leader.
To begin with, the authors are crystal clear when it comes down to laying out the blueprint the requirements needed for a successful leader. Stepping into any profession requires patience and clear thinking. The authors mention “taking a minute out each day of your leadership can really make a difference between a good and a bad leader”. Throughout the book, the authors step into depth explaining why it is necessary for the leaders to take just one minute out of their day to notice any noteworthy changes in relationship within the firm. By being packaged in the box the entire day and not thinking and stepping out the box, it can cause delays in work and/or possibly an unsuccessful firm. The authors move on to speaking about the different levels of management and the flexibility that occurs at those various levels.
When people talked about the leaders of some famous companies, they firmly believed that these leaders leadership talent is born. In the book “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, Carol S. Dweck discussed the fix mindset and growth mindset how to affect themes such as sports, business, relationships, and parents. Leaders with fixed mindset feel that they are superman or a genius, consider that employee who has more ability be more useful than the person who work hard and want to grow. Also, they also believe their company will not be defeated and replace. On the other side, leaders with a growth mindset preferred many people can become an excellent leader by hard-working and learn how to select people: for their mindset, not their pedigrees. Although both mindsets can make a leader successful, the growth mindset person gained more success in business, since they have true self-confidence and think they are not excellent but try their best to learn, credit and nurture. They also know how to use feedback to strengthen their leadership and arrange the company 's employees appropriately. In the teamwork, they will work to solve the problem with staff quickly. They notice their improvement in their employees on the management side and also believe themselves can be educated in negotiation abilities.
One of the most overlooked aspects in a business’s, or corporation’s success is its emphasis on management development. Management development is defined as “…the process from which managers learn and improve their skills not only to benefit themselves, but also their employing organizations.” Moreover, whenever a company utilizes its management development skills, it will directly relate to the company’s economic growth along with the company’s environmental well-being.
No one can get success without having the trust of people on his capabilities because without that he won’t be able to gain enough confidence to take desired actions without the fear of being rejected. Lastly, he must take some steps in order to prove him a leader and also to make him realize his very own potential (Jim Murray).
In corporate America the term used to describe a person in a position of power is “Manager”. A leader can be a manager, but a manager is not necessarily a leader. Leaders motivate, challenge, and influence others to achieve goals. Great leaders have the necessary skills and attributes which allow them to connect with the team and organization. Being a leader is not the same as managing an organization. Leader’s posses the interpersonal skills needed to influence others to achieve a goal willingly. Leading is a major part of a manager’s job. Leaders do not need to be a manager to lead people, but managers must know how to lead as well as manage.
Many people believe they can either be a good or great manager. The actual reality to this is some people are actually not fit to be a manager either because they do not know what to do or because they do not know how to handle themselves. Throughout this paper, management styles will be discussed, and the qualities of a good manager.
Learning becomes an essential aspect of an individual’s way of life, as there is nothing greater than knowledge being inculcate through the process of learning. As rightly quoted by:.. Being a part of the management consulting module instilled in me an in-depth understanding to be an effective consultant that could relate, analyse and apply specialist skills in helping the organisations achieve their purpose and objectives by solving management and business problems ultimately seizing new opportunities, enhancing learning and implementing changes for the future. Highlighting my natural characteristics of being a logical thinker and operational planner, the assigned summer project would strengthen and amplify my knowledge and understanding of wider issues surrounding the business and industry, moreover it would make me responsive to the ramification of future trends in the market environment. For this reason I was looking forward to working as a team on project Formica, which is world’s ubiquitous and leading brand in high pressure laminates (HPL) and surfacing solutions. Our Team of five comprised of analytical skills and expertise in different domains that was formed with core objective of analyzing the problem through a diverse and integrated approach so as to facilitate the process, ensuring a well balance solution that could potentially minimizes the laborious barrier that the client encounters and propose recommendations that could be implemented. When project Formica
The story is told from the point of view of a bright young man in search of a manager who could successfully lead and manage change. He wanted to work for and eventually become one, and so he spent many years traveling all over the world. He spoke with a wide variety of managers, but was rarely pleased with what he heard or saw. The “tough” managers ran profitable organizations at the expense of its workforce, and the opposite for those who he thought were “nice”. Just as he began to lose hope, the young man heard a story of a local manager whose employees enjoyed working with him and produced great results. To his surprise, the young man was able to schedule an immediate appointment.