Managers Can Make Or Break Your Business

If you hire your management staff without much thought other than their formal education you could be making a big mistake. Your managers can make or break your business.

There’s no question that most of us when hiring managers make sure they have the proper training and experience that will ensure they can manage. But too often we neglect to look at their personality, their style of management, and how they will interact with your staff, and they type of business you have.

The formal management training is pretty much the same across the board. Whether your potential manager got his or her degree from Harvard or from one of the accredited online universities, chances are they course material they covered was pretty comparable, just the prestige might be different. And that’s one of the areas you can make a big mistake.

Let’s face it if you have two resumes to choose from – one being a Harvard grad, the other from XZY Online University you would most likely choose the Harvard grad. But you need to look farther than that. There’s most likely nothing wrong with the Harvard application but you also need to consider the character differences that might be found in XZY. More motivated? The ability to work more independently? A real go getter? Think outside the box?

Now if you are hiring for the banking institute the Harvard grad and his more structured thinking and character could well be the best choice. However, if you are hiring for your Marketing company there’s a good chance that XZY might be more beneficial to you.

You also need to take personality into consideration. You already know your existing staff, what motivates them, what their personalities are, the work environment they are accustomed to, and the management style they work best under. You need to consider this when hiring managers.

If you hire a manager that’s got his shorts in a knot and is way too uptight and serious for the way you do business, it won’t take long before your staff resent him and the company they work for. They may quickly start to look for opportunities elsewhere and you’ll loose good members of your team.

On the other hand if you are hiring managers to administer a hospital and the person you are looking to hire is easy going, doesn’t let too much bother them, and speaks their mind openly, they might not be the best person to be meeting with government officials, serious doctors and medical personal, and other officials. A serious environment might do better with a stauncher, serious personality.

Motivating employees is one of the most important jobs managers do and motivating them while keeping moral high and attitudes positive takes a real skill. Any manager can walk into the room and demand employees to perform a certain task but it’s not good for the overall work environment. A manager that can get the employees to go the extra mile without being told, a manager that can earn the respect and thus the dedication of the staff, now that’s a manager you want to keep. Team players make a powerful staff!

There is a big difference between textbook theory and the real world. One manager that understand how to motivate, how to give and earn respect, how to treat their employees fairly, and how to make a team cohesive are worth are better than ten managers that know the textbooks inside out!

Next time you are hiring managers take a little time to find out more than what is on the resume. Remember managers can make or break your business!

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