All great Managers and Leaders want to run a high performing group, develop and inspire their people and take their team to the next level.
A Key elements in developing people is to ensure as a Manager you are focusing on those areas you can change and impact. Too many Managers focus on areas that they wish they could change in their employees and spend all too many hours beating their heads into the wall to make the necessary changes.
The following list serves as a guide for ambitious Managers in developing (or not) their people.
Leading Edge
Education
Experience
Organization/Planning
Self-Awareness
Communications – Oral & Written
First Impression
Customer Focus
Political Savvy
Selecting A Players
Removing C Players
Coaching/Training
Goal Setting
Empowerment
Performance Management
Running Meetings
Compatibility of Needs
Presentation Skills
Competencies, Behaviors and Capacities that are harder to change but doable and if achieved raise Performance Management results. It is important to ask yourself if developing your employees in the following areas makes sense. Do you have the time to spend changing these behaviors? Do your employees want to make the needed changes? Are the employees you are developing as committed to performance management as you are?
Judgment
Strategic Skills
Pragmatism
“Track Record”
Initiative
Excellence Standards
Independence
Stress Management
Adaptability
Likeability
Listening
Team Player
Negotiation Skills
Persuasiveness
Team Builder
Change Leadership Style
Conflict Management
Credible Vision
Balance in Life
The following Competencies, Behaviors and Capacities are Very Difficult to change and we strongly encourage a Manager who is interested in leading a high performance work team does not hire people who do not show up with the following needed traits, competencies and behaviors.
Intelligence
Analysis Skills
Creativity
Conceptual Ability
Integrity
Assertiveness
Inspiring Leadership
Energy
Enthusiasm
Ambition
Tenacity
Competitiveness
Courage
Resilience
Authenticity
Using this list will enable you to choose your employees wisely, manage performance with ease and spend your time in employee development in areas you can impact.
