Discover the essential keys you need to know as a manager

Being a manager is quite an art! The further we go, the more we realize how important it is. You have to learn to manage, and it’s an ongoing process. Today, many managers feel they have reached a ceiling in their role. Despite their efforts, their actions and their determination, these managers often want to do too much! Here are 7 essential keys that every manager needs to know, and on which you can focus to make progress, which will have an impact on your entire management style.

1. Planning: it’s easier to move forward when you know where you’re going! The first role of a manager is to set a course, define an axis and a direction to aim for, and implement the resources to get there. Where are you with this? The answer may be clear to you, but is it to your teams?
2. Organize: structure to achieve the goal! Once the direction has been established, a manager must know how to organize life within the structure. He or she must show real leadership to enable the whole structure to reach its goal. Organizing work, maintaining motivation levels, encouraging the exploration of talent and giving meaning to each individual will be one of the keys to success.
3. Managing people: of course, when you say manager, you also say people to manage, and these are not robots, but human beings. That means they have desires, aspirations, emotions and lives to take into account. Being a manager means knowing how to manage people. The recruitment, training, well-being and development of each individual must be assured. A manager who wants to excel works to ensure that everyone does what they’re good at, what they love, and what adds value to the project or organization. He makes the company the place to be!
4. Leadership is one of the key missions of management. Making decisions, communicating them, setting individual objectives in line with the overall vision, and preparing teams to achieve them. This is also the role of a manager! More than a manager, it’s a mentor who motivates, inspires and gives the best to get the best!
5. Coordination: a manager must also be a true conductor. When the conductor conducts, he makes sure that all the musicians are moving in the right direction at the right time. Just like the conductor, the manager ensures that each individual makes his or her own contribution, and that the whole forms a coordinated whole that leads everyone to achieve the overall goal.
6. Accountability: a manager must also be accountable. It may sound strange, but good management requires communication. Doing so smoothly, both in sending and receiving messages, and at all levels, ensures the success of the organization. A manager knows what to communicate, to whom and when. He adapts his method, form and style so that his message is received and understood.
7. Budgeting: finances are the lifeblood of an organization. Finances, even if they are only a means to an end, are crucial to the health of an organization. A manager must therefore know how to draw up and manage a budget, and use the resources at his disposal as wisely as possible.

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