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Enhancing Managerial Skills: Strategies for Effective Staff Supervision

Learn how to be a better manager of people by setting the right context, understanding employee expectations, and leveraging strengths. Explore discussion questions and valuable resources to improve your management style.

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Enhancing Managerial Skills: Strategies for Effective Staff Supervision

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  1. Staff SupervisionHow to be a Better Manager of People Ed Granger-Happ Save the Children

  2. Setting the Context • The Taiwanese Engineer’s Story • Why don’t American managers act more like parents? • Parents have high expectations, are demanding and even critical when we don’t make the grade • But they always expect us to succeed.

  3. The Soft Stuff • In a sector of hardware, data and network protocols, the soft stuff of happy, motivated, productive people does not come naturally. • So we need to remember that software makes hardware happen.

  4. Discussion Questions • When you have doubts about an employee, do you ask, “Am I expecting her to succeed or to fail?” • What if more managers expected us to succeed? • What if more managers thought we were stars? • What kind of a team would we have then?

  5. What do you believe about people? • Self-motivating or need to be motivated? • Want to do good work or want to avoid work? • Want to succeed or want to avoid failure? • Want to learn new skills or just want to do what they are good at? • Work for rewards or avoid punishment?

  6. The Management Grid

  7. Reinforcement • What gets measured gets done • What gets rewarded gets done • Are your metrics rewards or punishments? • Catch people doing something right (Blanchard) • 9 to 1 positive to negative feedback • Great expectations

  8. Discussion Questions II • What role should managers play? • Quarterback? • Offensive coordinator/play caller? • Coach? • Trainer? • Cheerleader? • Michael Gerber’s question: • Are you working on the business or in the business?

  9. Strengths • Are you thinking like a conductor or a drill sergeant? • A drill sergeant expects compliance with a fixed standard • A conductor looks to bring out the best that each player can give in their area of strength • Marcus Buckingham: most important thing a manager does is to bring out and leverage the strengths his people have

  10. McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_theory_Y http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net/methods_mcgregor_theory_X_Y.html The Managerial Grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerial_grid_model http://ollie.dcccd.edu/mgmt1374/book_contents/4directing/leading/lead.htm Values Based Management resource site: http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net/ Manager Tools resource site (Barry Richter recommendation) http://www.manager-tools.com/ Paul Glen web site and newsletter (“Leading Geeks” author) http://www.paulglen.com Marcus Buckingham web site: http://www.marcusbuckingham.com/ http://www.marcusbuckingham.com/resources/index.php (newsletter) Clifton StrengthFinders http://gmj.gallup.com/book_center/strengthsfinder/ Test: https://www.strengthsfinder.com/ (you’ll need a code from the book) Ken Blanchard http://www.kenblanchard.com/ Michael Gerber http://www.e-myth.com/ Tom Peters http://www.tompeters.com/ The Taiwanese Engineer’s Story (from a book of letters I’m writing) http://www.hpmd.com/hpmd/personal/LTYMstories.nsf/f72aaece024febf685257126006793cb/7d88486c9ef6e3f685257122006dfda1!OpenDocument Resources

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