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The Importance of
Management Development
 Now
that you're a new manager you may need to embark on
management development to up skill into your new role.
Many employees are promoted because they're good at their
jobs, but that doesn't necessarily make them a good manager.
Managers are responsible for developing their teams,
fulfilling company goals, managing budgets and are
accountable for their entire department.
Let's consider the difference between the role of a manager
and an employee. Of course some employees possess leadership
skills but for the sake of this exercise let's take an
overview:
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Managers: |
Employees: |
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Lead |
Work within a Team |
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Are responsible for
a team |
Are part of a team |
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Interpret and
communicate the strategic direction of the company |
Implement their
portion of the company strategy |
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Inspire and build
teams |
Be a good team
member and grow with the group |
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Visionary |
Hands-on |
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Give powerful
presentations |
Attend presentations
and provide feedback |
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Coach and mentor |
Are coached and
mentored |
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Responsible for
budgets |
Responsible for
doing their work within budgets |
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Develop people and
their careers |
Show initiative and
enthusiasm for career development |
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Develop and
implement strategic plans |
Carry-out their
component of strategic plans |
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Manage the time of
the team and themselves |
Personal time
management |
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Accountable for the
entire team |
Accountable for
themselves (although it's ideal to be accountable for the entire team) |
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Responsible for
handling difficult situations |
Responsible for
escalating issues they can't handle themselves |
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Deliver performance
results for the entire department |
Deliver personal
performance requirements |
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Ability to
successfully manage change processes |
Be flexible and
adapt to change |
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Excellent
communicator |
Excellent
communicator |
As you can see, the ‘management' component of a role can be
quite different to the ‘job' aspect that the employee
excelled at in the past.
That's why some new managers struggle in their new position.
They were stars in their previous job but they're not
sparkling so bright whilst trying to implement skills they
were never trained on.
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