In today’s society, in order to be a successful manager, one must attain many different attributes to manage effectively and skillfully.
A successful manager must do more than just manage but simply excel above and beyond what is required. In order for one to excel he or she has to have some prior knowledge of how to organize and use certain skills to go higher than the level already achieved. Before reaching for success we first must know what success is. Using the free dictionary it defines success as the achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted.
So we see that something must be desired first in order to achieve.One must have a set goal or vision, otherwise there is no target to shoot for. Secondly, there must be a plan that is established that will guide the path to reach the goal that is targeted. Lastly, the goal has to be put into action.
There has to be some effort seen that go beyond word of mouth or paper but put into action. Now that we have the basic meaning of success, in order to be successful we have to continue in success. There has to be an ongoing process of desiring, planning, and attempting to achieve what is being sought after. What does is it mean to be a manager?A manager is one who is in charge of directing and controlling the affairs of a business or team.
For example, if I was the manager of a sports youth group I would handle the responsibility of organizing, directing, and planning the affairs of that youth group. There are many ways in which a manager can direct, organize and plan, which I will go over in this reading. There are a few steps that I believe every successful manager should follow. Each manager in the world has different types of businesses that they are leading and managing.
All managers will not use the same style as the other.For example the way I manage the boys football team, may not be the same way that I manage the girls basketball team. Each individual manager has to realize and understand the individuals that are being organized to meet each goal. As the manager this is just one of the specific characteristics that has to be shown or demonstrated in order to achieve success.
There has to be some analyzing of the structure which is at hand. In other words, there has to be some organizational control. For each manager in the world today there has to be some type of control, where it is a business, team, or even a babysitter at home.If there is no control involved then there will be no organization and there will soon be some type of chaos.
Controlling is the process whereby managers monitor and regulate how efficiently and effectively an organization and its members are performing the activities necessary to achieve organizational goals. (Jones & George, 2007 P. 285) It is so important to understand how the control of the manager has either a positive or negative effect on an organization. For example, every manager of a business or organization has employers or workers underneath.
Even the president of the United States of America has those in government who work underneath him. So we see as a manager there are others who continue to look to the managers, supervisors or those in authority for leadership skills, control and other various reasons. The manager can have a great deal of responsibility, because he or she is held accountable for the entire team. The first step in the control process is to have an established standard of performance, goal or target against which performance is to be evaluated.
The second step in the control process is to measure the actual performance.Even if the standard or objective has been addressed it won’t be identified as useful unless it has been tested to see if it fits the need for the company itself. The third step in the control process is to compare actual performance against chosen standards of performance. In this step this lets the manager as well as the other employees know if the bar has been raised too high to obtain or if the standard is too low and needs to be addressed and raised.
The fourth step in the control process is to evaluate the result and initiate corrective actions if the standard is not being achieved.This is where any standards or objectives set in place by the manager or organization can be looked over and changed if need be. Now that we have addressed the way in which to have organization in the control process let’s look further in the manager’s role. All successful managers have to understand and condition themselves to deal with their other employees or coworkers.
This term is known as agreeableness. Agreeableness is the tendency to get along with others. Managers who are low on agreeableness may be somewhat distrustful of others. (Jones & George, 2007 P.
6) As many have heard the phrase, “There is no I in team”, it simply addresses agreeableness. No one person runs a company on without the help of others on a successful team. While I was an assistant manager for the company Titlemax, I was part of a team who relied on each other for the success of the team as a whole. If one person on the team was not working and doing their part, the team as a whole struggled.
The problem lead to pulling one employee from one job task to do that which was not being filled. This type of situation has to be addressed by the manager or ceo of the company in order for things to be resolved.If the top of the organization is working well and looking out for other associates then what the other employees see being done, will in turn do the same. This is a good way of modeling the type of hard work and desire from all managers who want to encourage and show others the right way of how to work as a team player.
There are so many different levels of managers. The following are some of different levels: first-line managers, middle managers, and top managers. The first line managers are those who are responsible for the daily supervision of nonmanagerial employees.An example of this type of manager could be the head teller at a Wachovia branch, who is in charge of all other tellers in the field of customer service.
The middle managers are those who supervise first –line managers and are responsible for finding the best way to use resources to achieve organizational goals. An example of this type of manager would be the branch manager over the head teller at the bank. The top manager is the manager who establishes organizational goals, and decides how departments should interact and monitor the performance of middle managers.An example of this would be the president of banking operations at Wachovia Bank, who sets the rules and regulations of how the entire branch is to work as a whole.
Each different manager has different roles but they all work as a team to achieve the same goal as a whole for the betterment of the organization itself. I have a vision of doing several things in my life. One of which I envision myself preaching the word of God to many people and being all that God has called me to be. That vision will not go anywhere unless I desire it, plan it out, and attempt to achieve it.
I also have a vision to have a successful job in the sports industry after obtaining my degree in sports and recreation management. However, I cannot obtain that unless I do my work in class, keep the goal in front of me and reach higher and higher each day to achieve that which I set out for. As a successful manager there must be a goal and target in which he or she is trying to reach for. There then has to be a plan that is well devised and thought out in order to go in steps to reach for that goal.
Lastly there has to be hard work that is put into action in order to achieve that which is being set out to achieve.All of these steps are an ongoing process in which the person has to continue in repeating these steps to continue in success. A lot of which there will be trial and error which means if the ways did not work out right the first time. There has to be an alternative way in which to go.
This is that process where the manager evaluates to see first if the problem has been addressed, has a change been implemented, did the change fix the problem, and continue in doing the same. I believe that these are just some of the many steps in which a manager will become successful !
