Qualities for Good Manager

A good leader is one who knows how to work with different type of people – even with the people whom they wish fire just now. A good leader should have the quality to motivate under performers, coordinate with workers who are annoying to other workers and able to solve employee’s difficulties. This makes the leader job more difficult and frustrating.

Firing and avoiding such employees isn’t always an option, so the leader needs to keep him calm and manage these employees professionally, because at the end of the day if team fails because of these employees, it shows the poor performance of Leader.

Qualities for Good Manager:

1. Communicate Clearly: The most common reason of non/wrong execution of any instruction is lack of communication between leader and its employees. Sometimes employees are in confusion that weather to do this work or not, how to do this work, and at the end work is not done or not correctly done by the employees.

Always establish a proper communication channel between the management and the employees, so that the instructions can be properly communicated between the management and the employees.

2. Document everything: Human memory is not sharp enough to remember each and every instruction or order given to him. Unavoidable errors can be done while executing the instruction. And at the end everyone will blame each other that “He asked to do like this”.

To avoid such situation its better the communication between the management and the employees should be in written form. So the instruction given by the management should reach in same context to the employees.

3. Stay Cool:Every person has a breaking point – a point from where a leader can’t work with any of the employee. However, a good leader should avoid crossing that line. Good mental health is essential to stay calm.

Always take break when caught in this type of situation. When there is a tension between leader sand team always take a break and go out find some place to de-stress and then come back to work again.

4. Be prepared to take tough decisions: After backing up the incompetent people just watch their performance for some time. Even then if they don’t perform, then its time for a leader to take tough decision.

Always before taking any decision put need of organization first, because whatever you decide ultimately the organization has to get benefit from it.