Getting Started as a Manager Management is an attitude, a way of life. Management is a very real desire to work with people and help them succeed, as well as desire to help your organization succeed Management is sife-long aming process that doesn't end when you walk out of a one-hour seminar of finish viewing a 5-minute video, Management is a prople job. If you're not up to the task of working with people helping them istening to them, encouragine them, and guiding them then you shouldn't be a manager in the new business environment, what's going on inside the organisation is a reflection of what's going on outside the organisation. The following factors are creating rapid and constant change in today's new business environment A surger of global competition New Technology and innovation The Plattening of organisational hierarchies A global economic downturn with widespread cost cutting and Lofts due to COVID-19 The the of small business now in danger due to this pandemic The changing values of today's workers The increasing demands for better customer service Your Tasks: 1. Take the time to assess your organization's problems. 16 marts Which areas of your organization work and which don't? Why or why not? . You can't focus on all the issues at once. Concentrate on a few problems that are the most important, and provide possible solutions 2. Take close look at yourself. (8 marks What do you do to help or hinder your employees/coworkers when they try to do their jobs Do you give them or does your manager give you the authority to make decisions? Study your personal interactions throughout your business day. Do they result in positive or negative outcomes? 3. Collaborative leadership is growing in popularity in all kinds of organizations, in all kinds of places. Why? Explain your answer. (2 marks] What does collaborative leadership look like in the workplace? 4. Great leaders know that leadership hin't a one-way street. Leadership today is a two way interchange of ideas in which leaders create a vion and workers throughout an organization develop and communicate ideas of how best to reach a vision The old one way, command-and-control model of management doesn't work anymore. Most employees aren't willing to simply take orders and be directed all day long. If you think your employees want to be ordered around, you're only fooling yourself (8 mars Do you agree or disagree? Explain you answer Outine what procedures and guidelines would you follow to be a great leader. 5. Motivated employees don't emerge miraculously. You need a plan to reinforce the behavior you want. (2 marks) . Explain how would you achieve this goal as a leader? 6 All employees need to have a say in how they do their work to make it more meaningful. No one likes to be micromanaged. (2 marks] its critical employees go beyond their job descriptions to do whatever they can to make a difference not only in their jobs, but also for the greater good of the company, Explain the term micromanagement, and how it may cause the opposite effect of what managers are looking for an employees. 7. SMART goals make for smart organisations. Many supervisors and managers neglect to work with their employees to set goals together. And for the ones that do, goals are often unclear, ambiguous, unrealistic, immeasurable, uninspiring and unrelated to the organization's vision [2 marks) . Explain what SMART goals are, and develop SMART poals for your position and you organization