Google pointed a search to our website to answer the question “How do I get the motivation to manage the staff?”
When we meet people in seminars there are many who show signs of stress, time pressure and destructively bad work-life balance. Those whose work includes managing others are doubly troubled, as they know they are not getting the performance they should from their people. How could they when they have so much else to do?
How do you motivate yourself to overcome these huge obstacles?
The advice is usually to learn the power of “No”. To learn to decline to do that extra task your manager has asked you to do. Not many of us feel happy doing that for obvious reasons!
Your job is to make your manager’s job easier by taking on those extra tasks. Just as your people should be taking on more of your tasks.
In many organizations, the more senior the manager is, the more stressed and overworked they are. While those reporting to the manager are desperately wishing for something interesting to do.
An oversimplification perhaps, because all the other good motivation management practices have to be in place to achieve proper delegation of tasks.
In this glorious organization your people do the majority of your tasks and you review progress with the lightest of touches. You can now say “Yes” when your manager asks you to do something extra. You get to do different things, all good preparation for when you apply for your manager’s job!
Ask yourself if there could be a different way.
Make the time to manage tomorrow, today.