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Practice Listening: Summarize Spoken Text ID: #35940 Medium Effective Manager
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So the three things that I think it really takes to be an effective Manager or these. First of all, learn to delegate, you know. The most important thing is you have to trust your people to do work themselves and if you're in the business of overseeing every single decision they make you're not gonna be a very' effective manager because you will be stretched too thin and you'll certainly never be able to rise to higher levels of Management where you're overseeing dozens or hundreds or even thousands of people, so that’s the first thing. The second is work hard to understand what the people underneath you do. They have this... there's this tendency to think you know. If I came up through one skill as I oversee people with different skills. I’m just gonna trust them to get it right and you have to. Of course you're not gonna be able to understand what everybody on your team does all day but if you can understand their motivations, their terminology, their way of communicating. You're gonna be a lot better as a manager. And finally, this is a kind of simple thing, but have as many one-on-one meetings as you possibly can. I think one thing that there's a lot of evidence is that having one-on-one meetings especially with your direct reports is one of the strongest predictors of success as a manager. Big meetings aren't good. Little meetings can be very good. It's time-consuming. It's hard, but it's a thing that really correlates with success as a manager.
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