Achieving Results for Manager

Why It's Important

Your effectiveness as a manager is often judged on the results that you achieve with the resources under your control. As such, remember that:

- You can't do everything yourself; sooner or later you will have to let go and start to trust people
- As a manager, the abilities/results of your staff reflect how well you have trained, developed and managed them.
- Planning the work of your section and its people is a key skill
- Plans are ways of turning aims and objectives into actions; remember, they need not be set in concrete - you can always alter them if situations change

Building Teams

What It's Important:

Having a collection of trained individuals, you now have the potential to build a team.

Teambuilding can help:
- Acheive commitment to the task/job in hand
- Takcle problems and take advantage of opportunities
- Encourage flexibilitiy in a changing environment
- Aloow individuals to grow in skills and confidence
- Make work more enjoyable

On the downside:
- Teambuilding can be time consuming
- Individuals may lose their identity
- 'The team' could become the vehicle for criticism by others in the organisation
- Teams may not always produce better decisions than those made by experts