101: Managerial missteps
Managers have busy days of meetings, conference calls and problem solving. It can be easy to forget to take the time to step back and take a true assessment of your managerial performance when you are the one in charge of assessing everyone else. Here are three things to keep in mind as a manager, to ensure you are doing the best you can for yourself and your team.
Mistake No. 1: Giving only routine tasks to team members. Florence Stone of the American Management Association tells Monster.com it's a typical rookie-manager mistake – constantly doling out the more monotonous tasks to underlings. But offering team members more challenging things to do you may have been automatically doing yourself has built-in value. “Since most of the work these managers retain could provide training opportunities for their employees, they lose this chance to grow their employees' abilities,” Stone writes.
Mistake No. 2: Micromanaging. Good bosses show people it's OK to come to them for help, but they don't hover. “People who feel micromanaged tend to do one of two things. They quit (or transfer) so they can work for a manager who gives them room to do their jobs – or they check their brains at the door because they know you're going to over-control how they do things,” according to Forbes.com. A good way to give employees more space is to leave more time in assigning a project, share your goals, and allow ample opportunity for questions along the way, with scheduled checkpoints as part of the plan.
Mistake No. 3: Picking favorites. It's a blow to team spirit and drags down collaboration quality and employee engagement. It's a sure way to destroy morale, writes Brigette Hyacinth at LinkedIn.com. “Employees who are not in your inner circle will always believe that you favor the employees who are – whether you do or not.”
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