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Busy Managers and Executives Need Time to Lead
| Guest post by: Greg Schinkel |
Article Overview: As workload increases, managers trap themselves behind their computers and Blackberries, firing off emails instead of building relationships with their peers and their employees. Instead of one-on-ones, the manager uses group meetings as a convenient way to get the word out. Employees become disengaged, feel the manager doesn't care about them and become less productive.
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Busy Managers and Executives Need Time to Lead
Amanager in in one of my executive development programswas discussing how his management job had changed over the years. More automation, more communication, more regulations and fewer staff on the team to get the work done. Sound familiar? If you allow it to, all this activity can draw you away from the time to lead your team.
No Time to Lead
As workload increases, managers trap themselves behind their computers and Blackberries, firing off emails instead of building relationships with their peers and their employees. Instead of one-on-ones, the manager uses group meetings as a convenient way to get the word out. Employees become disengaged, feel the manager doesn't care about them and become less productive. This in turn causes more work for the manager and the problem snowballs.
Just like busy parents who think that "quality time" is more important to children than "quantity of time", there is no substitute for face to face time between a manager and team member.
There is no magic bullet or ultra-concentrated leadership formula. In fact research of highly effective people leaders shows that being a good leader requires approximately 20% more time. The reason is that touching base with employees, providing regular feedback and getting to know them as people can't be rushed.
What do you gain from investing this time with your employees? You get greater commitment, accountability, improved business results and a greater likelihood for promotion and advancement.
Reflection Questions
Are you caught in the hamster wheel of endless tasks, to-do's and emails? Are you neglecting the needs of the people around you?
Action Items
- Reflect on your time spent on tasks versus time spent with people.
- Even if it means deferring some of your tasks, take time with the people who work with you.
- Observe the impact of spending more time communicating with your peers and team members in terms of morale, productivity and results.
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About the Author: Greg Schinkel RSS for Greg's articles - Visit Greg's website Greg Schinkel and his team help entrepreneurs and business leaders improve profit and grow their business by providing management training, supervisor training, team leader training, lead hand training and executive coaching. The challenge for many successful organizations is that leadership becomes diluted from the senior leadership team to the front line leader. For organizations who choose to be union-free, Greg and his team equip leaders to maintain excellent employee relations while focusing on results. For unionized workplaces, the focus is how to effectively lead employees within the boundaries of the collective-agreement while achieving results. Greg Schinkel has reached more than half a million people through his writing, broadcasting, speaking, training and coaching. Greg has appeared on television, radio and in print more than 200 times for his leadership expertise. He is co-author of the best-selling book Employees Not Doing What You Expect, published in North America, India, Latin America and Korea. Since 1992, Greg has owned and operated Unique Training & Development Inc., a leading provider of supervisor training, management development, team leader training and lead hand training. His website is http://www.UniqueDevelopment.com Click here to visit Greg's website   Great Leaders Know the Value of Candid Feedback Trying to be a Perfect Leader Good Enough May be Good Enough Detox Your Corporate Culture How Leadership and Corporate Culture Impact Profitability Busy Managers and Executives Need Time to Lead |
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