Do these look like what your manager does?

It needs more than a tablet

• They perform a great quantity of work at an unrelenting pace.

• Their tasks are usually short, fragmented and varied.

• They prefer to manage issues that are current, specific and non-routine (rather than planning for the future).

• They prefer verbal to written communication (ring me, don't email me!)

• They are well connected with a network of internal and external contacts.

• They struggle to exert control over the work.

In fact, there are 10 Key Areas they need to handle in their Personal, Information and Decision-making roles - they make up the difference between a manager who can do the job...or can't. They're important factors for a Performance Review or even a Warning, and how you decide on a better person next time.

>>> Go to this week's article When You've Chosen the Wrong Person to be Manager [free access for one week after publication]

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• Staff Drug & Alcohol Problems: How to Act, Not Hide - a key manager responsiblity is to identify and help control substance abuse
  

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