Great Managers are often mistaken about this one thing....

Yes! Great Managers can be mistaken! And we love to admit it! Because we are just like other people in that we all make mistakes and what sets us apart is that we are open to admitting it because we can learn and grow from every area we live in whether it's success or mistakes.

What makes a great manager and we are often mistaken about is that great managers create an atmosphere of peacefulness. Yes, we as managers do create different atmospheres at different times and when the time is right we need to create ... an atmosphere of urgency, or an atmosphere of excitement but most of the time we should be creating an atmosphere of peacefulness.

It has been proven that most people when working under stress do a less effective job, produce less effective results and are typically unhappy with their jobs. If you know and understand this then you will also understand that helping people to be assured, comfortable and at peace with their working environment will allow them to produce at an optimal level.

And we all know that if our staff is producing at an optimal level most of the time that the results we will get will be exceptional most of the time.

So while you may have been under the impression that you as a manager needed to keep the pressure on your people, keeping their "nose to the grindstone" as the saying goes will actually keep you from being the Great Manager that you would like to be and keep your from obtaining the desired results that your boss would like to see.

Now you truly understand that good managers are often mistaken about how to get the most out of their people while Great Managers not only know more because they have read and listened more but also because they not only create an atmosphere of learning and growth but they live it!

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A great manager knows one thing ...

Great Managers are few and far between and if you think you are a great manager know one thing… unless you have people asking to work for you when one of your people leave, you are not as great as you think you are. Remember, people will want to come to your department or organization because it might mean opportunity, promotion or change in their environment but if you are a great manager, people will be coming to you privately, to talk, or in an email, privately, where they will say things like, I just want you to know, that if you ever have an opening I would love to be on your team. Then you ask them why and they might say something like, I have seen …how fair you are/good you are with your team/how you treat your people/because so-and-so has told me what a great manager you are…
If you are not receiving these kinds of accolades or requests then you are probably not as good a manager as you think you are.
Being a manager is not what you thought it was going to be. Sure, you might be pretty effective in your job. Yes, you might get the results that your superiors expect from you and yes, you might even get accolades from your bosses and those are all necessary and good for your survival but…
that does not make you a great manager.
Great Managers get all of those things plus they have put together a team that works like a team, acts like a team, produces like a team and more importantly, likes coming to work! A Great Manager takes the skills their people bring to the organization and enhance those skills with the skills of others.  They find out what one person excels in and what that same person falls down in. One person might be great at details or stats or keeping you abreast of their progress but not excel at the actual design, implementation, connections, creativity that is required… while another person might excel at the creative part but not be great at the details part. A Great Manager creates a team within the team to accomplish all that both of these people excel at. A Great Manager knows their people and in that knowing creates additional gifts that the team will aspire to achieve and relate.
A Great Managers knows one thing.. and that is, they still have so much to learn and they can learn it from their team as well as their bosses.
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