“HOW TO BECOME AN EXTRAORDINARY MANAGER”
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Every organization needs great managers, and the individual that is able to delegate skills and responsibilities with ease, have the correct attitude and the ability to motive their employees, will be highly valued. How do you become a great manager? How do you become a great leader? Are they even the same? To start of, let me clarify the differences that separate a manager from a leader. A leader provides vision and the motivational force to drive a project while a manager skillfully manages resources and juggles tasks essential for the success of the project. Leaders are proactive while managers are reactive. Leaders promote new directions while managers enable existing directions. In the future most companies will be looking for entrepreneurs to lead their organizations because they have graduated from Leadership School and they are ready to be the innovate force to create new markets while push forward to growing the company. Having said that, both manager and leaders are actually quite similar, both in the terms of qualities exhibited as well as capabilities. They are not mutually exclusive to each other. A good manager can become a good leader, while a good leaders must often perform managerial roles. Sometimes a good manager must even be both. The ultimate goal of a Leader is to become an Entrepreneur within the organization creating a culture of innovation and promoting the initiative to keep the business moving in the right direction. So what does it require, in order to become an Extraordinary Manager: Common Sense in business (attitude and approach to issues – process); Judgment (decision making and believes); Planning (strategic and tactical); Organization (people and activities); Prioritization (important and urgent); Staffing (people and projects); Delegating (skills and responsibilities); Supervising (objectives and processes); Measuring (results and progress); Reporting (facts and alternatives); and Innovation (vision and conviction). In business as well as in life, attitude is everything. An Extraordinary Manager must carries all those elements to become a 100% business professional alone with a positive attitude in the things that he/she does and this rubs off on the employees over a period of time. Also, an Extraordinary Manager serves as a role model for his or her employees and this starts from having a great attitude. Ultimately, an Extraordinary manager is somebody who can make the sum of team greater than a collection of individuals. Finally, an Extraordinary Manager allows the team to flourish and creates value to each individual as well as to the company. Follow the steps and you will be at top before you ever know it.
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We need less managers but we need better ones. To become an extraordinary manager, you must follow 11 proven and organized step to take you to the top and keep you there in any place and in any organization. Common sense in business; profession; judgment, planning; organization; prioritization; skilling; delegating; supervising; measuring; reporting and innovation. These steps will take you from a team organization design to learning organization and a 21st century High Class Business.
About the Author
Dr. Librado E. Gonzalez, is a Global Human Resources and Operations Professional with track record of hands-on human resources operations, experienced in a multi-unit and multi-national environment. With over 20 years of experience in the field. His educational background comes from a MBA at University of Barcelona, Doctorate of Law at British American University, and a Ph.D. in Management from La Salle University, alone with Mediation Certifications from Duke University and Washington University. He is a Certified Executive Coach, a Master Six Sigma Black Belt Certified and Lean Certified Trainer. He has held executive positions within private and government organizations. He has been a Business and Law Professor for Towson University, State University of New York, Empire State College, Laurel University, Northern California University, Universidad Latina and Catawba Valley Community College. He has been a guess speaker for private and government agencies in the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia. He is the author of “How to Understand Communication” 2005; “The Issues Management Book” 2008 and now “How to Become an Extraordinary Manager” 2011.