What is your style of Management? Kindly List your strengths as a manager.

Good listener

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Decision-making Skills

Leadership Skills

Technical Skills

Time Management Skills

Focusing on other\\

Open minded 

Fair

Love for learning

1. Open to suggestions to add value to any project in the preliminary stage
2. Assigning tasks per person by professional strength and personal inclination
3. Grouping the team into sub groups if possible to help team bonding
4. A realistic draft of timelines and updates on a daily base & meetings on a weekly basis (if the project is45 day long for instance) to make sure we're heading in the right direction.
5. Re-evaluation of the progress if we're not meeting the pre-defined timelines & coaching any weaklings in the team to ensure we meet our deadlines.

At the end of the day its about defining the steps that need to be taken to complete the assigned task and ensure everyone does their bit to complete that task on time.

I am a great believer in the adage: "Look after your staff, they are your most valuable asset", a doctrine that was instilled in me during military service. If you asked a cavalry officer what his priorities were he would reply "Horses, men, self"! I like to think that my staff trust and respect me and know that I will always have their best interests at heart. They also know that should they let me down then I have the resolve and strength of character to let them know in no uncertain terms that I am "displeased" and they will face the consequences. My style of management? Firm but fair.

1. To be in present rather than past.

2. Take account of the opinions of sub-ordinates and colleagues and incorporate them for the benefit of the team and organization if found useful.

3. Develop a transparent system and streamlined decision making.

4. Minimize the bureaucracies and discrepancies.

5. Develop team bonding and creating a trust culture.

6. Reducing the communication gap.

7. Responsive, accountable and good presence of mind.

8. Improvise, scrutinize and focus on reforms and effective policies.

9. Monitor the cost and budget allocation.

10. Give utmost importance to customer / client and stakeholder relationship.

11. Implementation of time management and resource management techniques.

12. Giving credibility and appreciate hard work put in by the employees.

1. Sense of responsibility and ownership to step in to set examples for others to learn.

2. Humility to step back and give space for better ideas emerging form the team and learn.

3. Ignite the human potential for team learning, team bonding and team effort.

I’m a big fan of Lead Management as opposed to Boss (or Bossy) Management. I believe that the first establishes natural authority, leadership by example and respect through understanding while the second will mostly establish authoritarianism, leadership through imposition & respect through fear.

Lead management features

1. Engagement, listening, encouragement & a matching reward system for subordinates.
2. Clear-expectations models, increasing autonomy, self control & self-evaluation over own tasks.
3. Promotion of continuous improvement & facilitation of high-productivity & job enjoyment.
4. There is no fear of becoming friends of subordinates, as friends always do more for each other.

Ps: management can be less simple in different cultural contexts, especially in relation to high power distance cultures & low power distance cultures. A bossy manager in the Netherlands or Sweden will fail, while he/she may actually succeed in the US or India (am I right about India?)

1. First to be open minded and to have patience and listen to everybody's point of view.

2. Assign tasks to people according to their strengths and desries rather than randomness.

3. Encouragement to work in groups as two heads is better than one.

4. Set scheduled meetings to make sure whether we are on the right path.

5. Encourage people to learn atleast one skill in other field of their choice so that they dont become           redundant.

6. Last but not the least believe in the fact that the Organization/ Company is dependent on its                     employeesand not the other way around.

Empower people to do the job and control by manging agreed persormance measures.

I see that the strengths of good managers mainly include the following:

- Effective communication skills

- Prepare department operation plans in-line with the organanization strategies

- Executers

- Team players

- Objective decision makers

- Effective time and energy management

- Practically showing integrity based on the acceptabl value system

- Build a trust based business culture

Be a good Listener.

Act as bridge between Employee  and Employer

Provide job satisfaction.

Be tactful on situations of adversity.

Never give-up Employee interms of appreciations. 

Keep an alternate solutions of all expected issues