Working Woes ......

An international survey revealed that many people in our workforce do not believe that their education properly prepared them for working life. And, quite a few even have regrets about the direction that their job has taken them.

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Leaders are not born - they are made.

You can have that position of responsibility and leadership as well.

All of us will have a great future if our leaders have the courage and the character to make bold decisions and to be uncommon leaders.

In this world, no leader wins alone. He or she will have to rely on the talents of others to control all the factors that go into a successful team play.

Another characteristic of an effective leader, is that they have a very 'high consideration factor'. In other words, even though he can be tough - a disciplinarian or a stern taskmaster - he is someone who does what he does because he cares. They are not concerned whether being known as Mr. Nice Guy or not.

They always want to make things happen.

Finally, like any effective manager or leader, I believe that each and everyone of us have the capacity to become larger and greater than what we are.

My parting question, "are you able to rise to the occassion?"

Note: This concludes my posts on uncommon leadership skills at this point in time. I may be posting more on this subject in the not too distant future.

"If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is;

but if you treat him as he were what he ought to be,

he will become what he ought to be and could be" 

- Goethe.

What a manager expects of his subordinates and how he treats them will largely determine their performance and career progress. When employees are expected to do little, they tend to do little. But, when they are expected to do much, they tend to fullfill that prophecy.

One characteristic of effective managers is they have the ability to communicate high performance expectations to subordinates that, more often than not, are fullfilled.

Besides, effective managers always establish clear standards (objective and not vague, subjective judgements) of performance and set standards of excellence.  

Any manager who is attempting to maximise the contributions of those who work with him has two options open.

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Another characteristic common among effective men and women in management is their focus on service and contribution. They understand that they are where they are to make something happen. Thus, they focus heavily on the 'KRAs' - the Key Results Areas.

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One practice common among effective managers is sound time management.

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A management position is not a job that is undertaken easily. There are 3 common causes of failures in Management.

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"The future never just happened. It was created."

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