How To Participate And Not Care Too Much

One of the troubles that most managers face everyday is how to participate in the work of their employees and not to overburden themselves, nor to manage them too meticulously.

To solve this problem, you can use the method we introduced in the previous article -- what we call "prepare execution summary". In this simple but often forgotten mode of action, you should not regard each activity as a single step (execution). Instead, you should divide it into three different steps: preparation, execution, and Reflection on the results and lessons learned.

This time, we will focus on how to apply to employees. Preparation execution summary "Method. First of all, it is best to let your employees take the initiative to apply this method in their work. This will not only help them improve their efficiency, but also provide you with a way to take part in their work as appropriate according to their personal circumstances and the situation at that time.

　 The following is the way to use this method:

　　 Get ready First of all, to preview their plans with employees, and to make suggestions for changes if necessary. You have to ask some key questions: what do you plan to do? Why? What's the purpose? How do you do it? How do you make use of this plan to make progress in our goals and plans? Who should take part in this plan or keep abreast of the situation? How do you make use of this plan to help you learn and progress? What if your assumptions are incorrect or something unexpected happens? It is through this way that you push the team's goals, plans and work forward, guide and train employees, empower you more confidently, and convince yourself that employees are fully prepared to act independently.

　　 implement You can decide whether or not to participate in the implementation phase of the activity based on the experience gained in the preparation stage. When you are working with a novice, you may want to do it yourself and let the novice look on. Next, you may want the novice to carry out this activity. You monitor him regularly and provide feedback afterwards. After that, you may not need to be there at all.

　　 summary : Excellent manager It will be a rule to sum up the actions for yourself and employees. You can use it as the focus of the one to one meeting after the event. Alternatively, it can also be part of your regular meetings with every subordinate, or a standard procedure you perform when your subordinates provide the latest information at the staff meeting. When you describe your work, you must make a model for your employees according to your expectations. Next time, we need to do this.
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Remember, no matter what the result of the action is, whether it is success or failure, we must sum up it. We tend to reflect on our failures more easily, instead of taking time to learn from our achievements, and never really understand the key to our success and what inspiration can come to us in the future.

Most of your managerial interaction with employees should take place at the preparation and summarizing stage. Only when working with inexperienced staff, or at a risk or high-risk situation, you should personally participate in the implementation of the task.

As long as you use it consistently and consciously, the method of "prepare execution summary" can become a powerful management tool to help you improve the management of employees. It provides you with some ways to get involved in the work of employees without interfering with them, so that your interaction with them will become richer, the result will be improved, employees will learn more, and you will be better at empowerment.

As a boss, as long as you consistently use this method of operation, you will find that certain core management tasks become easier and more systematic. This method allows you to be more flexible and skillful in authorization according to the skills and experience of your employees and the specific circumstances at that time. It can help you guide your employees more effectively; in fact, it can help you translate many tasks into learning experience. Moreover, it can help you decide when you need to participate personally and when you can be reassured, so that you can make more effective use of your time.

If staff experience is very rich, especially if they perform routine routine tasks, then you do not need to participate in preparation and execution work, but as a boss, you must not let go completely in the summing up stage. You don't have to sum up the results after each task, but you must not abandon the continuous performance summary.

If you think about it carefully, you will find that the "preparation execution summary" is actually Efficient boss The basic activity cycle of management is to form an infinite cycle of "preparation, execution, summarization, preparation, execution and summarization". By using this method, you will become more attentively and thoughtful in doing all your work. Therefore, it will help you transform ordinary daily activities into management activities and make progress through daily work. Moreover, you can use this method to guide employees, create results, help employees learn, and do not meddle in their work unnecessarily. Of course, this is not a universal solution to overcome all management problems, but this method is powerful and is the closest way we know of Management Secrets.