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Management Development For Beginners

By Dominic Donaldson
Jun 15, 2009
Management can be daunting for those that have not taken on the role before; it is often wise to take your new members within a team on a management development course. As a manager the major problems that can occur are that you do not think about the management issues because you do not know what they are the first time round. When you become a manager for the first time you can learn quickly from your mistakes and the first option is to do what is expected of you. This article will look at how to become a successful manager and create your own management development.

When you are a manager of a team, you gain control over your own work, not all of it, but most of it. You become able to change things and be able to do things differently; you have been given the ability to change things and create an impact on the way your staff works, you are able to shape your own work environment. Within a large company your options are far more limited on how you can change the corporate culture, however instead of fighting the system you can work within it.

Within a smaller company you will have much more space to widen your management development as the custom is probably far less rigid. The impact of your success will be proportionately greater than within a larger company. Once you start working well this will be recognised far quicker and nothing creates faster approval within the work place than success. The idea of starting out alone can be difficult, especially as managers may face resistance to change from fellow colleagues within your team as they will be the ones most affected. However people will come around to change.

Overall for management development one should realise that there are three major roles for a manager to play. The first is the role of the planner, which has to really be one project ahead in order to ensure that work is not repeated or that work problems have been tackled too late. The next role is that of a provider, the manager will have access to information and materials that the whole team need, as a manager will have the ability to influence or acquire things that the other team members couldn't. The final role is that of the protector, protecting their team against any problems they may encounter at work.
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