Management Activities
To be effective, management needs to encompass, and deliver on, a wide range of activities. Unfortunately, in many cases, those promoted to managerial level do not get the training required to allow them to deliver as well as they could.
Here’s some of the management areas that contribute to making a business successful. Learn to master these and the results will follow.
Management Practices
In my experience, many orgaisations are not geared up to train staff that are promoted to managerial roles. The effects of this spread up the management structure with each subsequent promotion. In too many cases, an organisation’s management is poor across the board and the managers don’t even know it and so can’t begin to address the problem.
Management boils down to delivering results and staff retention. All that is needed is the adoption of a few simple practices.
Project Management
I’ve seen so much poor project management result is failed projects or finacial losses for an organisation.
By introducing even the basic principles a huge improvement in project quality, delivery, and end profits can easily be realised.
Business Processes
So much of our business processes have been inherited. We do it that way because that’s the way it’s always been done.
Business processes need to evolve with the organisation and even be completely re-invented when they are broken.
Organisational Health
When an organisation want to increase its performance, it’s not enough to just put the foot down. If the engine hasn’t been cared for over the years then your not going to get the performance that you’d hoped.
An organisation’s engine is its people, its cultue, its core values. If you don’t take care of them then working to increase performance is going to be severely hamperred.
Strategy
A strategy is esential to drive an organisation. However, in too many cases, an organisation simply drifts along grabbing any opportunities that comes their way, even if they’re ultimately bad for business.
A strategy will also give a workforce a vision and a reason but it can also motivate a workforce.
Quality Management Systems
Don’t take this one the wrong way. Quality is no longer a man in a white coat with a clipboard, as it was when I started in engineering. A good quality management system is mostly formalised common sense. It’s a way to help guarantee that an organisation performs and delivers in a consistant way. It will also help an organisation consistantly improve over time.