Showing posts with label leadership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leadership. Show all posts

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Smart Managers Coordinate Flair with Planning


Talent management
Quality is always better than quantity. Many companies today are still obsessed about headcount, rather value the right people for the right jobs. Managers must position the right people and coordinate them with appropriate roles to make organizations foster. The induction can be major, according to PMI, around 72 percent of business goals actually meet the business objectives at companies with major or better harmony between their talent management and strategical planning of organizations. This can be viewed in a contrast with organizations having only 58 percent with average coordination. Besides the probable Return on Investment (ROI), merely 10 % of organizations report important alignment. That means being a manager you can assume what is the main reason behind the flair crisis.
According to a keen observation, organizations complain complexity in locating educated project management employees to fill vacancies. There are few organizations which are steaming up seriously. You can observe the examples of Silicon Valley, Google, and Yahoo! And Apple. Managers who are capable to align the flair or talent of the employees with the strategy development and edge over others and complains less difficulty in filling up vacancies. Organizations that synchronize with this aspect are also more successful at executing structured career paths. It requires about ten years of extensive experience which includes five years of project management for managers who are capable to manage extremely high strategic and difficult projects that expand three or more organizational limits.  Developing a professional path not only creates employees  feel like the company has a profound interest in them, but it also supports the organization point  and close and talent gaps that may prevent  it from performing on its business objectives.
Hiring and sustaining superior talent will only get organizations ahead. Managers need to judge the outcomes, too. Across the organizations with bold coordination are more likely to judge results such as employee turnover, learning growth, and employee involvement, retention and performance.
One brilliant example would be of NASA ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration). The organization tracks the success of its career growth courses by measuring enrollment quantity and reaction from higher leadership. There is no doubt that developing a flair management course comes with expensive fees. However, consider the peril of not attempting. So, managers need to think about making that investment which can transform their organization’s best talent into its success.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Smart Managers Coordinate Flair with Planning

Quality is always better than quantity. Many companies today are still obsessed about headcount, rather value the right people for the right jobs. Managers must position the right people and coordinate them with appropriate roles to make organizations foster. The induction can be major, according to PMI, around 72 percent of business goals actually meet the business objectives at companies with major or better harmony between their talent management and strategical planning of organizations. This can be viewed in a contrast with organizations having only 58 percent with average coordination. Besides the probable Return on Investment (ROI), merely 10 % of organizations report important alignment. That means being a manager you can assume what is the main reason behind the flair crisis.


According to a keen observation, organizations complain complexity in locating educated project management employees to fill vacancies. There are few organizations which are steaming up seriously. You can observe the examples of Silicon Valley, Google, and Yahoo! And Apple. Managers who are capable to align the flair or talent of the employees with the strategy development and edge over others and complains less difficulty in filling up vacancies. Organizations that synchronize with this aspect are also more successful at executing structured career paths. It requires about ten years of extensive experience which includes five years of project management for managers who are capable to manage extremely high strategic and difficult projects that expand three or more organizational limits.  Developing a professional path not only creates employees  feel like the company has a profound interest in them, but it also supports the organization point  and close and talent gaps that may prevent  it from performing on its business objectives.
Hiring and sustaining superior talent will only get organizations ahead. Managers need to judge the outcomes, too. Across the organizations with bold coordination are more likely to judge results such as employee turnover, learning growth, and employee involvement, retention and performance.
One brilliant example would be of NASA ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration). The organization tracks the success of its career growth courses by measuring enrollment quantity and reaction from higher leadership. There is no doubt that developing a flair management course comes with expensive fees. However, consider the peril of not attempting. So, managers need to think about making that investment which can transform their organization’s best talent into its success.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Being pushy? Or not?



Assertive Manager
People do not bother how much a person know, until they know how much the person care for others.
Have you ever noticed your project manager saying something which makes you feel like a machine? These are signs you are working with an extrovert manager.
In opposite,  few project managers supervise more as a shy person. They are less  belligerent and more submissive in their behavior.
There is a level of being pushy and assertiveness, which be fathomed as a person’s inclination to aggressively protect, convince and express out for his individual benefits.
Being pushy is an important factor for a leader’s skill to attain outcomes, according to a 2006 research made by Daniel Ames and Francis Flynn. They realized that our normal inclination to concentrate on optimistic data tells that the value of low or high extents of being pushy may sometimes overshadow the positivities in the perceptions of those who watch.
So what is the ideal behavior to boldness in the situation of project management? My answer would be, it actually depends on the kind of project.
May be the crux is to create our abilities to expand a broader range of pushiness and maintain our attitude to the situation of the project.
For example, on short term projects, being assertive to a greater extent will offer us the skill to gain outcomes. But on a long term project, the ideal attitude would be more reasonable in pushiness to develop healthy bonds with our team members, which enables us to coordinate positively in the future.
Which type of project manager you think you are? And which kind of project manager you fancy to be ?

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Top 10 Challenges Of a Change Leader


Change Leader

There are certain challenges and tricks that has to be followed by the managers in order to flourish and move forward by maintaining a healthy change in the organization. An important question for managers is that are they actually developing a social network of practice or excellence origin? Below is a list for change leader and managers which sets top agents for change management. Take a look.
The Challenges!
  1. Perseverance and determination. The manager needs to adhere to the way  and must be able to intervene himself with complex and difficult situations.
  2. Knowledge is Power. The manager needs to be poised and organized even in the toughest of times. He must be able to manage change with structured thought and a calm attitude. And of course, use  the power of knowledge.
  3. Be Positive and Be Real. Don’t just hope for the best. Prepare to make it the best and always keep an eye on the ground realities in achieving the goal.
  4. Think strategically. For managers, it is crucial to set a clear path towards their goal. A plan which has to be navigated.
  5. Supervise. There may be numerous ways to manage change process for a leader. But I think the best among them would be to like one for whom the whole team would willingly like to follow. The manager needs to be an example, rather than just being a boss.
  6.  Think Wisely. When the change is accepted, there are obvious confusions and resistance at many levels. The managers must have an integrative thought process for this.
  7. Know the organization’s cultural values. It is really important for a manager to know well about the organization’s culture. It will help him in making plans for change.
  8. Be an inspiration. A good and successful manager leaves a trail behind him to be followed.
  9. Great decisions. The skill to be a good decision maker is in fact very rare and that is why so much valuable. They say , good decision making comes from profound experience.
  10. Relevancy matters. The change has to be relevant with every asset and resource. The smooth transition is the key to have a successful change process.
Catch you up with more! Till then share your views.

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Leadership Talk



leadership talk

Another important notion while demonstrating leadership within your project team, the expanded consultation about leadership within several teams, but the core team which has the control over all has to remain focused on the goal. It will help in making complex decisions made easier and with minimum risk of failure.
Leaders must engage much in the discussion and talk with the team but too much democracy is not good either. In achieving realistic goals, it is important to have maximum control within a core team as a small group with effective control can do a lot better than too many committees talking. This tip is extremely powerful tip for regional, cross regional and global projects.
Some common mistakes that managers often commit is to take a decision and then start their discussion over it. Also they sometimes fail to keep the team focused on the desired goal.
Remember:  “The Romans did not build an empire by having meetings. They did it by killing all those who opposed them.”