With the desire to enhance the leadership and management at the company, Google has built project Oxygen in order to determine the common points of the managers are working efficiency highest in the company. The results of the study internal this is Google reference to build the program development, capacity management for employees.
Based on this project, Zack Friedman – founder is also the CEO of Make Lemonade, a website that provides services for projectors personal finance, shared on Forbes about management skills:10 points general of leaders to define a leader. Details as follows:
1. Is an excellent trainer
The good leader not only are people who have high working efficiency. They also invest time as well as energy into the training, start-up assistance, training for her team. They are the person with management capacity is likely to share the best experience helps associates. They help staff to develop, to build a corporate culture with progress.
2. Trust empowered and are not micro-management (micromanage)
In leadership positions, one of the leadership and management needs, there is need to empower reasonable for lower level employees and senior management. Depending on the different areas that given the right to avoid overload for “embracing the”. The leader has enough trust to empower and actively handle the job for the employees and associates of yourself?
Too bogged down in micro-management is one of the weaknesses of the poor managers. The consequence of this is to create corporate culture negative. Let's build working environment, “open”, allowing employees to have the space to handle the job. Plus, create conditions for the team to proactively find solutions when problems difficult. By no employee likes to be in control from the smallest thing.
3. Building a culture of sustainable business
The CEO, the management leaders should be a bridge linking the members of the team. Let the members see everything is together toward a common vision. A good CEO is to create work environment where every member can equally comfortable raised the personal thoughts. They can be the same trial-and-error and propose new ideas.
4. Working toward the results
Goal setting is very important, but the path realization of the goal is even more important. A CEO who is able to create corporate culture, effective and positive. Let the team find ways to create the result that the whole team in the same direction to, instead of just setting goals and then impose them on the roadmap too.
5. Listen and communicate
There are too many leaders fail because they can't communicate well internally. So at Google, interpersonal skills are a factor so be mindful. Here, the internal communication is not ordered from the top down or generic. But before transmit any info what the leader must be a person who listens to it's details. Then, if possible, to spend time with the staff to solve problem as soon as new start.
6. Interested in career development, employee
Don't only focus on what that team can do for the company. Let's focus on what the company can bring to each member in the organization. Leaders need to think should additional staff with the skills, how?. Employees need to fostering the knowledge out why?. How to help them improve their business and complete disclosure the personal development?
So the manager just swap & suggestions positive, the constructive. Talk about what the organization can do for the employees themselves.
7. Vision and strategy-specific
If even the leader also has no clear vision or strategy specific, then how did the whole team can move forward?. With this perspective, Google said that a good working team starting from the capacity set clear strategy. Come along is the ability to lead, create foundation, the direction the whole team move forward in the work.
8. Skills expertise to advise employees
Good leaders need to have an understanding of expertise. They need was one of the pioneers handle the subject matter expert in that field. If you do this, not only help the team work efficiently, but also to build the trust of the employees.
9. Mounted team
So that the company can grow well, it needs the coordination between the departments. Therefore, in addition to manage your own staff, leaders need to coordinate well with the other senior. Because this is the way of cooperation help the company come up just fast and stable.
10. A decision fast and efficient
Information analysis is useful skills. Strategy is also important. The test script will help to optimize the main goal. However, all three factors that, in management capacity will not take effect if the CEO does not dare to make a decision at the moment of need. Therefore, leaders need to develop the ability to make decisions. At the same time they ensure the implementation is guaranteed sufficient resources.
According To Forbes
