What Great Managers Do That Okay Ones Don’t – 5 Secrets To Become A Better Manager

What great managers do that okay ones don’t affects us all. Great managers create more than 8 times the value average managers do – that is a huge gap.

Learn 5 key principles or approaches and become a better manager.

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Video Time Stamps

00:00 Intro
01:59 Great Managers Put The Team Before Themselves
04:37 They Create A Trusting Team Environment
06:46 Great Managers Are Comfortable With Conflict
08:46 They Partner With And Value Their Team Members
10:13 They Are Unfailingly Results Orientated
11:45 In Summary


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How to be a great manager starts with how you view your job as manager. Managers create the most value through their teams. Your team is critical to enable you to do a great job. Great managers know this and work hard to make their team as good as they can be.

How to be a better manager starts by putting the team before yourself. Working in service to your team is the best way to work in service to yourself as a leader. This is more important than great manager skills.

What makes you a good manager is how much the team trusts you. Without trust there is no team, only a collection of individuals. Teams outperform groups of independent individuals. Working for the team is a brilliant way of building trust.

For how to be a better manager and leader, focus on the environment you are creating. A lot of management skills go into creating a great trusting team environment – most important are what your decisions, actions and behaviours communicate to the team. How to be a good manager is partly about how well you can manager yourself.

How to become a better manager at work – learn to be comfortable with conflict. Every organisation will have a level of conflict. Resources are limited, different teams have different objectives etc, PLUS every person is different. Conflict is guaranteed. How well you manage conflict – both constructive and destructive is essential for team success.

Partnering with and valuing team members is vital for how to be a good manager and leader. Managers depend on their teams. You don’t have a job without a team. Admire each person’s strengths. Support them to develop further. Value what they bring to the team. Your beliefs about the team will be obvious through your actions and behaviours. Get your mental approach right – one of the key manager skills you need.

How to be a good manager at work must include being unfailingly results orientated. Results is what your company need your team to deliver. Team results is what you are personally being assessed on. Great managers always focus their teams of delivering results.

If you have any questions on “What Great Managers Do That Okay Ones Don’t – 5 Secrets To Become A Better Manager”, leave them in the comments and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles
Enhance.training