Manage

What Is Management?

What is management, and how does it differ from your previous job? This is probably one of the main things that occupy your mind as you establish yourself in your new role. According to some people, "leaders do the right thing, and managers do things right." As a new or prospective manager, how would you define management?

How Do Managers Spend Their Time?

As a new manager, you may be surprised at the number of things that you have to do each day. No longer can you just concentrate on your own job or one task at a time. The management theorist Frederick Mintzberg described a manager's job as being "characterized by pace, interruptions, brevity, variety, and fragmentation of activities."

Balancing the Constraints and Demands of being a Manager

The management writer Rosemary Stewart explained that any job is subject to a range of demands and a series of constraints. Inevitably, you will encounter demands on your time from your peers, your manager, your organization, and your staff members, as well as dealing with the external demands of, for example, legislation. And you may also be constrained by budget, resources, location, policy, or regulations.

Seven Stages to a Management Role

A move that takes you out of your comfort zone, out of a familiar job, and into a challenging new role can be difficult to handle. Change is unsettling for most people, and even welcome change usually requires a period of adjustment. The transition to a management role, even when it has been eagerly anticipated, can involve a roller coaster of emotions.

How Will You Fit into the Organization?

All companies seem to have their own particular way of doing things. The personality, or culture, of the organization affects the way that everything is seen and done. The culture may be visible in the style of the building, the layout of the offices, the corporate brochure, the dress code, and the workplace jargon.

Matrix Techniques to achieve Effective Time Management

So much to do, and so little time in which to do it. Is that how you feel? You will probably find yourself agreeing with management guru, Peter Drucker. He said: "Time is the scarcest resource...Unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed." Planning the best use of time is a vital management skill.

Good time planning will allow you to concentrate on the most important tasks, reduce time-wasting, enable you to complete more in the time available

Surviving In Management Role by Learning

As with any new job, when you first become a manager, you will probably experience a very steep learning curve. You will be faced with many new challenges and find that you are continually trying to learn new skills. Understanding the way that you prefer to learn will help you to make the most of the opportunities presented to you during these first months of your new job.

Taking You Forward, or Holding You Back?

As a manager, you will have to face and handle many changes. To some people, change is the answer to everything. However, most people find change unsettling, due to the risk and upheaval involved. Because of this, they are happier to change when there is a compelling reason to do so.