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Characteristics Of A Good Manager

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The best managers are more than just controllers, delegators, or administrators. Managers focus on structure and processes, while creating a willing workers environment for their staff members. Spending time developing people and leading by examples are important traits for a good manager. As a leader and manager you should always treat employees with respect and honesty; positioning employees for success creating learning opportunities and additional responsibilities. Good managers have a strong operation, that produce and delivers a product or services in a effective manner. Early in my career I was fortunate enough to become a Project Manager (3 divisions, 28+ employees, and 2 shifts) being not place in this role with very little experience nor understanding the general needs of employees. Let’s just say things went south very fast and from that experience I formed this as my Management Mission Statement. “My mission is to create a productive environment while developing my employees through empowerment, and keeping an efficient operation that gives quality service to our customers.”
As a manager one must always commit to learning, a lot of its on-the-job experiences by observing and interacting with others. One thing I learned from my first manager position is to hire base off skills and character, and not who other things like who you know through family, neighborhood, etc… Hiring people like this made it difficult to with discipline and perception of thinking

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