Becoming a good manager is quite a challenging task as it requires a lot of hard work and certain inner qualities necessary for the successful fulfillment of varied tasks set by the direction. In the following paper, important points which are to be taken into consideration in order to become a successful manager will be examined. In addition, I will discuss my personal opinion concerning my own estimative expectations of whether I may become a good manager; I will also try to support my conclusions with particular evidence and facts. Overall, after evaluating varied facts it appears that to become a good manager one is to acquire due knowledge about one’s work, combine it with good discernment and undersense, and support all of that with great teamwork skills.
First of all, discussing important points which are to be taken into consideration with regards to being a good manager, important skills and capabilities are to be addressed. Managers are to be skilled in solving of a row the most unexpected situations; thus, they should possess great orienting skills and a good measure of creativity. In addition, a good manager is to have excellent communicating skills; and the better these skills are, especially in terms of his/her speech clearness, the better results in management will be achieved. This is explained by the importance of mutual understanding between the team of workers and their manager.
Further, a good manager should have a clear way of thinking enabling him/her to have a clear vision of business matters and the other important activities. The person is to know where to go, how to go and why. A good manager is able to develop any important business strategy, understand how to put it into practice and help every member of his/her team to take one’s relevant place in exercising this vision.
Next, a good manager is to know how to gain his team’s trust as trust is another vital condition for the success of any business arrangement. Besides, a good manager is to be able to create a positive atmosphere in the collective body. Such a positive atmosphere will add to good communication between all the participants of the business process, thus, establishing a firm ground for successful cooperation. A positive atmosphere is very important because it guarantees better acceptance of managerial directions.
Finally, among the other important skills and capabilities of a successful manager the following ones are to be mentioned: the readiness to take risks and try out new business strategies, programs, and arrangements; an attentiveness to environmental changes within the collective body leading to any possible opportunities, positive or negative developments or threats; an ability to be a good planner taking into consideration all the major developments at the enterprise during any particular period of time in order to fall abreast of an ongoing process of strategic planning and forecasting; high level of interest in the implementation of new technologies on a regular basis in order to keep up with the ever-developing business situation in the world; and finally, good skills in identifying and implementing environmental stimuli.
Evaluating the central characteristics which are important for becoming a good manager, the first one to be mentioned is the very decision to be a manager. The person is to decide whether he/she really wants to be responsible for the work related to the running of the business. The person is to decide whether he/she is ready to provide the due quality of work, offer new ways of seeing some important business matters, inspire the team with one’s vision, and direct the course of future development.
Such a person should know how to display one’s supremacy in the collective body and oversee in case the situation requires doing so. Further, discipline is to be mentioned among the most important characteristics of a good manager. In this vein, the person is to know how to restrict one’s own unnecessary wishes and vain pursuits, and how to help his/her team in archiving this important goal. It often happens that certain individuals possessing a row of important and ingenious manager qualities suffers defeat in this area on the reason of lacking this important character trait. It is very important to know how to control one’s opportune time, and not to waste it on any unnecessary works; and to help one’s subordinates in this important task. One more important condition for a person to be a good leader is constant learning.
A good manager visits specialized seminars on a regular basis where he/she acquires new knowledge, and exchanges positive experience with one’s colleagues in order to become even more skilled and experienced in the most diversified areas including solving problems and anti-crisis management. Numerous illustrations support this fact revealing how vital keeping leader’s brain “in fit” along with “updating” it with new ideas is.
In addition, there exist some natural characteristics which cannot be acquired elsewhere but they are only given to a person as a manager; such comments describe a certain person as the owner of excellent inner qualities including charisma, ambition, integrity, dedication, magnanimity, openness, fairness, creativity, assertiveness, positivism, good sense of humor, and the ability to persuade.
Finally, evaluating my candidature as the one aiming to become a good manager, it seems to me that I correspond to all the important characteristics a good manager is to demonstrate. In particular, I am responsible, well-organized, well-disciplined, creative, charismatic, dedicated, open, positive, have good sense of humor, and a constant desire for self-improvement. In addition to all of these important qualities, I demonstrate due diligence in my business studies which would help me to orient in business surroundings and to see important tendencies which is vital for making timely decisions.
One more important detail which makes me believe that I can make a good manager is my experience in the field of management. What I saw helped to me to realize that I possess a row of important skills and qualities which I mentioned above, and thus, it made me confident that being a manager can be something very good for me, and beneficial for my future employers.
Concluding on all the information related above, it should be stated that being a good manager requires a lot of effort on the part of any individual deciding to take this important and well-respected position. In particular, a good manager is to know how to demonstrate one’s practical skills in both managing the business process, and solving problems, in offering directions to one’s team and inspiring them by means of the use of his/her excellent communication, negotiation and persuasive skills. A good manager is to demonstrate the readiness to take risks and try out new business strategies, programs and arrangements.