{"id":4733,"date":"2020-10-07T16:33:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T20:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovators.org\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2020-10-07T16:33:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T20:33:23","slug":"3-keys-to-ensuring-your-managers-become-effective-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovators.org\/stage\/blog\/3-keys-to-ensuring-your-managers-become-effective-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Keys to Ensuring Your Managers Become Effective Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

An important decision you make as a business leader is selecting who you appoint in managerial roles. Your managers are a central part of your leadership team and their performance will have a direct impact on the value of your business. Ensuring that they become effective leaders will lead to higher employee engagement, productivity, and profitability. In his blog, Andrew Rush<\/a> discusses what steps can be taken to ensure managers become effective leaders.<\/p>\n

Empower Your Managers with the Leadership Tools They Need to Create Results for Your Business<\/strong><\/h2>\n

One of the most common questions we hear from organizations is about clarifying a Manager\u2019s role in their business. To what level of detail should they oversee their team\u2019s work? How do they\u00a0create alignment<\/a>\u00a0among different stakeholders? How do they ensure they\u2019re using a results-driven leadership style and not simply reacting to different requests?<\/p>\n

Without a doubt, a Manager\u2019s key role is to remove barriers to higher performance. This is true at all levels of an organization. Plain and simple.<\/p>\n

However, this simple approach is challenging to be good at. In a study by Gallup called \u201cWhy Great Managers are So Rare,\u201d they found that 7 out of 10 Managers are incompetent as managers.<\/p>\n

Leadership Skills Needed for Managerial Effectiveness<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If a Manager\u2019s role is to remove problems to allow their employees to achieve a higher level of performance, then we need to equip them with the skills to be able to do so. Creating a\u00a0high-performance team culture<\/a>\u00a0means managers need skills such as the ability to prioritize competing issues, being solution-oriented, having strong interpersonal and communication skills.<\/p>\n

Think of all of the questions you need to ask to solve and prevent problems from recurring:<\/p>\n