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This article is based on the following book:
‘What The World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently’
By Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
Simon & Schuster, 271
pages
Based on a mammoth research
study conducted by the Gallup Organization involving
80,000 managers across
different industries, this book explores the challenge of
many companies - attaining,
keeping and measuring employee satisfaction. Discover
how great managers attract,
hire, focus, and keep their most talented employees!
Key Ideas:
1.
The best managers reject conventional wisdom.
2.
The best managers treat every employee as an
individual.
3.
The best managers never try to fix weaknesses; instead
they focus on strengths
1.
and talent.
4.
The best managers know they are on stage everyday.
They know their people are
2.
watching every move they make.
5.
Measuring employee satisfaction is vital information
for your investors.
6.
People leave their immediate managers, not the
companies they work for.
7.
The best managers are those that build a work
environment where the employees
3.
answer positively to these 12 Questions:
The Gallup study showed that
those companies that reflected positive responses to the
12 questions profited more,
were more productive as business units, retained more
employees per year, and
satisfied more customers.
Without satisfying an
employee’s basic needs first, a manager can never expect the
employee to give stellar
performance. The basic needs are: knowing what is expected
of the employee at work,
giving her the equipment and support to do her work right,
and answering her basic
questions of self-worth and self-esteem by giving praise for
good work and caring about
her development as a person.
The great manager mantra is
don’t try to put in what was left out; instead draw out
what was left in. You must
hire for talent, and hone that talent into outstanding
performance.
More wisdom in a nutshell
from First, Break All the Rules:
1.
Know what can be taught, and what requires a natural
talent.
2.
Set the right outcomes, not steps. Standardize the end
but not the means. As
1.
long as the means are within the company’s legal
boundaries and industry standards,
2.
let the employee use his own style to deliver the
result or outcome you want.
3.
Motivate by focusing on strengths, not weaknesses.
4.
Casting is important, if an employee is not performing
at excellence, maybe she is
5.
not cast in the right role.
6.
Every role is noble, respect it enough to hire for
talent to match.
7.
A manager must excel in the art of the interview. See
if the candidate’s recurring
8.
patterns of behavior match the role he is to fulfill.
Ask open-ended questions and
9.
let him talk. Listen for specifics.
8.
Find ways to measure, count, and reward outcomes.
9.
Spend time with your best people. Give constant
feedback. If you can’t spend an hour
10. every quarter talking to an employee, then you
shouldn’t be a manager.
10. There are many ways of alleviating a problem or
non-talent. Devise a support system,
11. find a complementary partner for him, or an
alternative role.
11. Do not promote someone until he reaches his level of
incompetence; simply offer
12. bigger rewards within the same range of his work. It
is better to have an excellent
13. highly paid waitress or bartender on your team than
promote him or her to a poor
14. starting-level bar manager.
12. Some homework to do: Study the best managers in the
company and revise training to
15. incorporate what they know. Send your talented people
to learn new skills or
16. knowledge. Change recruiting practices to hire for
talent, revise employee job
17. descriptions and qualifications.
By: Regine P. Azurin and
Yvette Pantilla
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