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Managers Dont Know Any Better!
90% of managers today havent the slightest clue about how to
perform their jobs. If they did we wouldnt have the
astonishingly high business failure rate, or job movement. But
our managers have never been properly shown or explained on how
to perform. Yet theyre so important to the overall outcome. No
matter what your position is today, weve all had the wonderful
job experience at some point in our life (maybe now) where you
felt uninspired, lacking in confidence, confused, stressed,
tired and more than anything frustrated every day! And didnt
know what you would do about it. You probably spent far too much
time in this gray zone and wasted valuable personal time, plus
your companys time. Im talking specifically about when the
person directly responsible for your results (your manager or
supervisor) was seemingly against you every day, always just
riding your tail to force productivity from you, and never
agreeing with your thoughts or ideas. When you desperately
needed improved results but they just are not coming.
Did you know, that probably wasnt your fault at all? (Ok the
time you took a quick nap during your work hours was your
fault). But no person that is being coached properly in their
job would ever dream, or need to take a napor consider any
other obvious productivity waster.
Managers are largely unsuccessful in their jobs because no-one
has ever explained to them the importance of coaching their
team to success. Thats right coaching! Standing with a whip
and screaming and yelling at tigers to make them jump through a
ring of fire might work in the circus, but thats where it
belongsand certainly not in todays workplace. Monitoring the
height of your plants or amount of seeds that sprouted each
week, and then adjusting the triggers that make them grow
(water, light, heat, soil, etc..) works in the garden, but NOT
with human beings. Empowering the people on your team, or those
you are directly responsible for, is KEY to attaining any level
of success. To prove this point think of a time right now where
you felt very important to an outcome. When inside you felt like
the leader. You had so much to give and it was bursting out of
you. You were excited and eager to get going. You were enjoying
yourself tremendously and time was flying by. You were using
your strengths and knew that any positive outcome was based on
your participation. Whether its playing on a beach volleyball
team, singing in a choir, playing in a team golf tournament,
completing a research project on time, attracting customers at a
company booth, selling a car, helping a neighbour put up his
Christmas lights, analyzing a report, fixing a computer, leading
a meetingwhatever. That wonderful feeling existed because you
were empowered. You were naturally using a strength of yours and
were connected to the effort. You were giving it 100% easily.
Now imagine for a few seconds that feeling existed in all
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existed within your team.what do you think your results would
look like?
And this is absolutely what Managers are directly responsible
for today, and moreover, absolutely have the power to
accomplish. Creating that feeling. -2-
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spoke less than 30 minutes a day cumulatively to their team! And
a staggering 30% less than 30 minutes a week! And our North
American results are not far behind. Now I dont know about you,
but how someone who is responsible for my productivity is going
to understand me, my strengths, my weaknesses, and my goals
without regularly talking with meis just crazy! They dont have
any chance of tapping into that feeling of mine where I could
give 100% easily. Unfortunately for them they probably do not
have any possibility of reaching their targets or the companys
targets successfully either. Managers primarily need to coach
not monitor. Yes, understand what their teams results are.but
spend ten times that amount on understanding, encouraging, and
positioning each employee that reports to them. How much time
does your manager(s) spend understanding their team
individually? Do they talk with you once a year for goal setting
and then once again before review time, and hardly anything in
between? How much time do they spend writing reports vs making
their teams strengths come alive and weaknesses diminish? How
much time do they spend fixing employee problems and spats
instead of encouraging their strengths and positioning them to
allow them to use these?
But the most exciting part about this new Coaching approach
is.ITS EASY. Yes many managers might have to do a severe mind
switch, and some egomaniac managers might have to be let go, but
overall were not talking rocket science here. For those
managers reading this; its a commitment to understanding what
your real role is, and a commitment to your team that you will
individually position them for the best results possible. If
your company needs results for any reason, this is an area that
when given attention, will pay HUGE dividends.
Managers need to think of themselves as the Coaches of
professional sporting teams and not as the General Managers. Let
their directors, executives & owners do the bulk of the
analyzing, monitoring and company movement.and use their time
to concentrate on their players (their staff) and how to get the
best results from them daily, weekly and monthly. Without these
individual player and team resultsno amount of fancy marketing,
new inventions, slick processes, visionary goal setting, etc
will spell success. Coach your team dont just manage them, the
results will speak for themselves!
About the author:
Fred Mercer is an National Award Winning Young Entrepreneur in
Canada and now Professional Speaker and Peak Performance Coach.
His company Cabot Coaching creates peak performers both in the
business and personal world, through event speaking, seminars,
and consulting services. To enquire further about booking Fred
Mercer please contact Cabot Coaching for his schedule. e-mail;
cabotcoaching@shaw.ca, web www.cabotcoaching.com