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Management Development Secrets - Getting Out Of Your Own Way

Guest post by: Martin Haworth

Article Overview: Learning to be a better manager is a superb aspiration for anyone with the opportunity. That said, sometimes we can be guilty of holding ourselves back...

Management Development Secrets - Getting Out Of Your Own Way

In the field of management development, one thing that that comes up from time to time is when a manager gets frustrated with themselves and are finding it a challenge to make the progress that they want to. The workload of just the simple day job can be tough enough, without even contemplating new ways of doing things.

Yet it is so worth the effort!

It is vitally important that you realize, these frustrations really are perfectly understandable! No-one (not even managers!) learn perfectly. In a complex and challenging career that management is, everyone struggles from time to time - even the very best.

It is all about what challenge and growth does for you.

You see it's almost impossible to remember everything you learn, especially when information comes at you all at once, perhaps in the shape of a book you read, or a one-off training workshop you attend.

That said, it's vital you don't actually try to remember everything. As you make progress through your management experiences, new ideas, concepts and learnings will all pop up again and again from time to time, so they will refresh.

Sometimes it works very effectively to get your training in 'salami' slices, where you get it in slivers that you read, understand, and practice.

Where you can, it is often much more effective to take smaller concepts and experiences, where you learn small amounts at a time, embed them in the way you work and then self-assess your ability to absorb and implement such learning.

That might come in the form of just parts of a book or guided learning, where you take on new skills in small doses and on a very regular basis to maintain your momentum.

Some of your learnings will readily be infused into your way of working right away and some will hide away and simmer a little in the background. It is there in your subconscious and will pop up when you need it.

Repeating concepts, in different ways, several times through your career will help that, as will the perspectives that you get when you hear things different ways.

We all learn at different paces, in different ways and to complicate matters even more, we vary depending on the circumstances, the topic and the passion we have for a certain area of the work.

Don't hold yourself back by feeling that you are the problem; that you 'can't' - you are doing OK and, of course, you really can!

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