As a manager, overseeing your employees’ work is one of your main responsibilities. While most new managers knew they were going to be adding that to their day-to-day, many underestimate the challenges that come along with the new expectations in management.
Managers need to understand their team members, know their abilities, and have an idea of their development needs and working preferences. Clearly, this will take some time, and it will take becoming acquainted with each team member.
Thankfully, while new managers face quite a challenge, following key advice can really help you take your management journey in stride and grow into the effective manager that you were hired to be.
What to Do if You Feel You’re Off to a Rocky Start
If managing your new team of employees is off to a more difficult start than you imagined, don’t get frustrated and down. Instead, embrace this chance to learn from your mistakes and to improve. When you’re managing other employees, in addition to keeping up with your own tasks, you’re bound to have some days that are more difficult than others. You may drop the ball on a task, an employee may not meet your expectations, or your delegation may not go as planned.
These and other small setbacks are normal, especially for new managers. But they can lead to great progress. You may find that you need to find you need to be better organized, or that your team thrives on a different style of communication. While each situation will present a different problem and, therefore, a different solution, the best thing a new manager can do to get better is to try to learn from mistakes and grow.
Essential Skills for Management to Monitor Employees’ Work Effectively
Since monitoring other employees’ work is one of the new responsibilities for a new manager, here are some guidance on three top skills to help.
Delegation Skills
Deciding the level of control you want over your employees’ work is the key to determining how you will delegate. The new management must understand their comfort level with control and then effectively communicate to their team this delegation style and expectations.
Coaching Skills
As you become more comfortable with your team, you will learn about their capabilities. This knowledge, along with deciding how you want to delegate, will help you formulate your coaching skills.
A good manager and a good coach believe that their employees have the ability to do excellent work and solve problems independently—they just need support to learn and realize their capabilities.
Coaching is also about trials and adjustments. As a new manager, you may delegate and coach with errors, but again, learning from those setbacks can help you become a better delegate and coach—aka, a more effective manager.
Feedback Skills for Management
One of the key skills of any manager is their ability to provide constructive and timely feedback to their employees.
At the same time, an effective manager will also seek useful feedback from their team so that everyone, including themselves, can grow into their best selves.
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