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TEKOA Articles: Steps to becoming a Better Manager


🕴TEKOA Articles: Steps to Becoming a Better Manager


            Being the leader of a team is a big responsibility. People are looking at you to make the right decisions under pressure and to give the orders. With all this stress, it’s easy to become short with your employees for no apparent reason. Just the stress. In this article, I’ll give some practical tips on how you can better manage your team. So put the phone down, grab some coffee, and let’s go.

🕴Be a Motivator

            One of the most important aspects of being a team leader is making sure that your team players feel important and useful. By dropping encouraging comments now and again, you can create a more relaxed environment, and foster better relationships with your employees. Kind words cost nothing, but are worth a lot.

🕴Be Willing to Help

            It can definitely be frustrating when one of your employees isn’t getting something down, or can’t get something right. But when a bit of grace is shown, it can make mountains of confidence for your employees, and motivation to do it better next time. Being willing to put some things on hold in order to help your employees do the best that they can makes them feel valuable, and more productive. And it also helps the end product of what you are trying to achieve.

🕴Communicate Effectively

            This is huge. Without communication, a team dies. Go to a basketball or football game, and you will hear the teammates yelling at each other. Generally, not out of anger, but to relay information. The same applies for a business. But, don’t yell that you need that coffee in five minutes. That’s not fair.

🕴Admit Mistakes

            In the same way that you will need to show your employees some grace, you will also make some mistakes from time to time. And when those arise, the better road is to own your mistake and do it right, instead of blaming other people. When we blame our employees for mistakes that we make, we igniting a time bomb of bitterness that could end up in a resignation.

            In conclusion, being a good manager implies a lot of grace. Being okay with mistakes is what allows for growth. No one is going to get it right the first time they do something. And this isn’t to say let your employees totally drop the ball on everything they do, but encourage hard work and good tries. Remember, kind words cost nothing, but are worth a lot.
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