Walking the Walk

Good managers are both what they do and who they are._
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What managers do...

Plan - Decide what needs to happen in the future
(today, next week, next month, next year, over the
next five years, etc.) and generate plans for action.

Organize - Design and make operational the pattern
of relationships among workers, making optimum use
of the resources required to enable the successful
carrying out of plans.

Staff - Analyze jobs, recruit, hire and train as needed
to attain the organization's mission.

Lead - Determine what must be done in a situation
and inspire people to do it.

Control - Expect what you inspect and reward
excellence.

 

Who good managers are…

Honest - Can be trusted to speak and act honorably
with all internal and external customers even when
it would be much easier to omit or stretch the truth.

Motivational - Create conditions that make it possible
for employees to motivate themselves as needed to
achieve organization goals.

Respectful- Consistently treat all employees and
customers with the dignity and respect due all human
beings.

Organized - Take the time to develop efficient and
cost-effective processes and schedules that make it
possible to achieve organization goals.

Flexible - Adaptable as necessary to achieve goals
even though circumstances change.

Responsible - Able to be depended upon to take care
of anyone or anything he or she in entrusted with.

Ethical - Always acts in accordance with the accepted
principles of right and wrong that govern the conduct
of a profession.
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