As each employee within an organization serves a purpose and fulfills some need on the part of the company, the role of a company’s managers is perhaps the most complex, as it falls to these individuals to oversee the entirety of the company’s many functions and ensure that everyone is getting their job done and that all is operating smoothly. However, as was shown in the previous half of this article, there exist a number of flaws that many managers have been shown to possess which can significantly limit their effectiveness and efficiency, and which must be overcome if they are to thoroughly carry out their role as a company’s leaders, guiding their employees, and ultimately the company itself, to success. To aid in this goal, here a few more executive search firm guidelines to the mistakes made by managers and the solutions to these problems.
Another poor quality leaders have a tendency to display is their inability to admit that they do not in fact know everything. For some reason, as an accompaniment to having earned their rank and position within an organization, many managers have displayed a propensity for becoming overly prideful in their role, as a result of which they seem unable to allow themselves to own up to any faults in their knowledge, and subsequently going so far as to become defensive should their lack of familiarity with a subject be called into question. While this demonstrates a poor quality in anyone, it can be particularly damaging to a company’s leaders and managers as such pride can easily become a burier in their ability to fulfill their role. The most obvious answer is, of course, for these individuals to simply admit that they do not have all the answers, to admit fault, and to ask questions.
The next mistake that many managers face is not a problem unique to a company’s leaders but one which many if not most individuals find themselves guilty of at some time or another, being that we all have a tendency to assign greater value to the work we do than to that of others. As such, tech oriented professionals see the company’s IT systems as the most important aspect to a company’s functioning, while accounting does the same for their department, sales sees marketing as the most valuable, and so on and so forth. This is only to be expected from those whose role it is to focus solely on this or that aspect of the company’s inner workings. However, in order for a company’s leaders to fulfill their roles effectively and fairly, they must first come to see the bigger picture in the way that the role of each department and every individual is significant and important as they all rely on one another in a symbiotic relationship in order to ensure the success of the company.
The real significance of the role played by managers in an organization can often go overlooked, as it is these individuals whose duty it is to hold the workings of an organizations together. So much is dependent on the work being done by these individuals, from the executive search and hiring processes to guiding the daily grind of their employees and finally ensuring that the company meets its goals, there is little room for error in the duties of these leaders
Published by Conselium Executive Search, the global leader in compliance search.
