Want to be a manager who inspires confidence in his or her team? Aspiring to become an efficient manager in your professional life as you complete the education? If these questions boggle your mind quite often, it is time you understand the traits of an efficient manager and get on the path to become one.
An efficient management professional is the one who makes the workplace a friendly environment for his or her juniors while at the same time ensuring that each task is completed well within the time limits. The job description of a managerial professional may seem just ‘managing the juniors’, but the actual work profile is a much wider task. It is safe to say that managerial professionals are basically the ones who run the show.
Here are a few traits that you must intend to develop and you will certainly become one of those true professionals that others aspire to follow.
Leadership Instincts
To become an effective manager in any professional set up, you first need to be an effective leader who leads the team with utmost professionalism and apt sympathy. In fact, this is a key attribute that many leaders lack. To be a true leader in your professional life in the coming years when you enter the professional world, you should be in a position so that you can inspire trust, give directions to your juniors, and delegate the responsibilities. You can easily learn and gain such skills in our management program at the School of Management Studies at Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth. The key aim of our management school is to enable the transformation of students into skilled professionals capable of growing into true leaders and prodigious managers of tomorrow.
Communication Skills
An effective manager is recognized by the communication skills that he or she possesses. You need not only be an effective communicator with the senior leadership in your organization but also need to listen to your team of peers and juniors and share their vision of taking the organization to a new high. We at Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth understand the importance of strong communication skills for professional growth of an individual in the corporate world, and hence aim at sharpening the communication skills, both verbal as well as written, of every single student of ours, so that by the time they enter the professional management world, they are equipped with strong and clear communication capabilities. The management program offered at the Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth, be it in any specialization i.e. in Human resources, Marketing, Finance, or others, has incorporated communication skills development as an important aspect of the overall course.
Being Knowledgeable
To be an effective manager, you no doubt need to be experienced but simultaneously you should also be equally knowledgeable. Read different magazines and journals which highlight the challenges of management and give an overview of the impending changes that the management world will have by the time you are prepared for the job market. Keeping yourself updated on managerial skills will definitely help you in the future. To keep our students aligned with the latest trends in the management arena, we, at Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth, regularly update our curriculum ensuring that our students’ knowledge base is in line with the current standards and practices in the national as well as international management world
Being Organized
You have to be a good organizer to be an effective manager. If you lack on this aspect, chances are that the employees or the workforce you lead will also be unorganized in approach. Develop the habit of keeping a note of all the details that you learn in your management lectures. The approach of scanning through these notes will definitely help you organize your thoughts and present the same in a creative manner on a bigger platform. You can also consider using a personal planner or can download the same on your smartphone so that you take on the habit of staying organized.
Time Management
Time management is a key indicator for anyone aspiring to develop their management skills. If you arrive late for your work on a consistent basis, the workforce employed under you will also develop the habit of shying away from work. Time management has a key relation with prioritization of tasks on daily basis and you need to be an effective time manager if you aspire to be a true management professional.
Reliability Factor
A manager should be reliable in every aspect. As a manager, you have the responsibility of being available for your team. You should also be able to complete or assign a task in the desired timeframe and inspire confidence from those who work under you.
Delegation of Duties
An effective manager should know how to delegate duties to people working under you. If you are weak on this aspect, your role as an effective manager will be under scrutiny.
Confident Approach
A person is considered to be an effective manager if he/she keeps a confident approach. This confidence should reflect in your experience, decision, and abilities. You must not have an arrogant approach towards your workforce as it reflects badly on the employees. Confidence comes from your capabilities and knowledge, and hence as a manager, it is important that you study and gain knowledge on regular basis.
Respect for your Workforce
Even if your set of employees lack professional competence, you should have respect for your workforce. This is, in fact, the true identity of a leader. A leader is one who very well identifies the strengths and weaknesses of his/her team and instead of blaming the team over the weaknesses, he/she takes the strengths into consideration and utilize the best capabilities of the team to draw magnificent results. Moreover, giving respect always earns you respect in return. Hence, do respect your team for the strength they add to your work and the value they bring to your organization.
We, at the Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth, want every single student of ours to grow into effective leaders, managers, and forerunners of tomorrow and hence take every possible effort to guide them and support them on their path to becoming one. We are proud to state that most of our passed out management students are today playing key management roles in various popular national and international organizations like IBM, Infosys Amazon, and many others. We are hopeful that our current batch, as well as all the upcoming batches of our management students, will also earn immense name and fame in the corporate world for the skills and traits that are being imbibed into them here at the Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth.