Top 10 Manager Challenges (Part B – Managing Stress)
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Top 10 Manager Challenges:
Here, we talk about the second five, all of which involve MANAGING STRESS
Constant Change
- Don’t fight it – have a process
- Provide change management skills to your people
- Don’t enable other people’s resistance
- Over-communicate during change
Babysitting
- Don’t solve your employees problems for them when you shouldn’t
- Allow people to make mistakes, and accept the consequences for those mistakes
- Ensure appropriate consequences for all good and poor performance
- Don’t get dragged into personality clashes
- Be professional and calm at all times
Overload and Burnout
- Be self-aware
- Take breaks to stay healthy
- Consider burning your blackberry/iPhone
- Do not try to be all things to all people
- Be very focused about what is most important
- Delegate where you can
Red Tape and Administration
- Consider what would happen if you ignored it
- See you can get someone else to do it
- If you can affect change, do so
- If you can’t affect change, get it off your desk as quickly as possible
- Place appropriate value on your time, and hire someone else if appropriate
Personal Fulfillment
- Understand your connection to the final product
- Realize that often managers don’t “do” anything
- Get a hobby
- Take pleasure in the small victories
- Understand what motivates you, and give in to those guilty inner desires.
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- Click through to Related Topics:
- Time and Priority Management
- Delegation
- Help! I’m a Micro Manager
- Procrastination: Later, Dude!
- The von Manstein Matrix
- Top 10 Manager Challenges: Part A (Managing Conflict)
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