management tips

Your team must know what is expected of them, and what will make them stand out amongst others. Each member of the team must be given clear measurable goals. Discuss and agree with each member before making it formal, your team member must accept it whole heartedly otherwise it won't serve any purpose.

Having an emotional bonding with your team member helps to understand and appreciate the practical problems in life. Each one of us goes through ups and downs, and our performance does get affected during our tough time. It's important to stand by your team member going through a rough phase of life and provide all support. Rest assured, the returns will be many fold.

Rely more on face to face communication rather than mails and written messages, listen to your juniors and appreciate their point of view, many a times you will find great ideas which will help organization to grow in the right direction

Rely more on the process than people, when you have a strong system and process in place, you provide equal opportunity to all. Whenever faced with problems, try fixing the process and system first, than people.

It is expected from a Manager to give clear role and responsibilities to all team members according to their strengths and abilities. The role and responsibilities should be well defined for each member and measurable goals are provided to everyone to judge their performance

Every individual expects appreciation and acknowledgement for the work; you must do this regularly in team meetings in front of all team mates. The appreciation must be done in public rather in private; this will motivate the person to do a better job in future and also be source of inspiration for others

Fix a day and time every week to review the progress, this will ensure continuous improvement and at the same time monitor the progress on regular basis. We have also seen that as the review date comes closer, team members tend to finish assigned tasks before the given deadline. You must document the minutes in a soft file maintained for each member.

Each one of us likes to do something different and new, everyone has a tremendous potential, we just need to get an opportunity and some support to get there. Explore the potential in each of your team member and give a task which is not a routine activity but aim to get long term benefits.

We perform best when we get our own space to work in, this does not mean we will violate any of the organization processes, rather this will provide newer ideas to flow in the system, and create a sense of belonging. We excel in those activities which we like most, so promote creativity and accept and implement good ideas

There is a saying that ?what you get is what you give', so if we expect to be respected by others we have to give same to our team members. Avoid giving negative feedback in public, share it in a personal meeting after creating the right environment. As a senior member, we must control our anger and negative emotions.