Characteristics of a Good team manager
After years of hard work and effort, you have been promoted to a managerial position. Now you have a bright and hopeful career journey ahead of you. But do you know what kind of attitude you should have towards your team during this part of your career journey?
Being perceived as a good manager by the team is extremely satisfying. Always be transparent and straightforward. Transparency is the first rule of being a good manager. Because giving the people you work with the feeling that you are transparent makes them trust you. After you become a manager, the more often you share information about the company and organizational structure with your team, the stronger your team's belonging to the organization will be. Because keeping critical information such as strategic plans, budgets and customer feedback to yourself instead of sharing it with your team means declaring from the beginning that you and your team are not on the same team.
Likewise, take care to discuss any negative situations you see within the team together so that no one in the team feels excluded and marginalized. Organize frequent informational meetings and ensure that these meetings are held in a democratic atmosphere.
Build a solid relationship with your team. According to Gretchen Spreitzer, a professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, one of the biggest mistakes new managers make is being too mechanical. Having a "performance-oriented" attitude from the outset often creates a wall between the team and the manager.
Remember that just as you need time to get used to the team, the team also needs time to adapt to their new manager. The best attitude to adopt at this stage is to observe individual employees' work styles and performances from a distance and to have plenty of dialog with them.
Demonstrate leadership qualities. Being a good manager is not about hiding in your shell all day and barking commands and orders at people. If you want to be known as a good manager, one of the things you need to pay the most attention to is "having leadership qualities". In other words, you cannot make your team do a better job just by drowning them in demands and negative criticism.
Therefore, it will be much easier for your team to work without losing motivation and with an ever-expanding vision if you lead them. Getting into the thick of things during your managerial journey and experiencing your team's challenges first-hand both contributes to your personal development and strengthens the bond of empathy between you.
Know how to appreciate. There are some magic words that open every door in life, and perhaps the most effective of these words is "Thank you". If you want to be known as a good manager and continue your career unhindered, do not hesitate to appreciate your colleagues for their good work. In this way, you will both verbalize that you value your team and the team will realize that you do not put yourself apart from them.
In the opposite case, instead of taking a judgmental and hurtful tone, an approach such as "How can I help you with this?" or "Do you need support to do better?" will have extremely positive results in the long run. Appreciation and thanks are the greatest virtues.
Be open to feedback and criticism. One of the golden rules of being a good manager is to act with a democratic mindset. In other words, just as you have the right to criticize or warn your team, you should also be open to negative feedback and criticism from your team.
The important thing here is to maintain the ideal distance between you and your teammates.
In other words, being a democratic leader who is open to criticism sends the message that you can be the best at your job without being perfect.
Feeling something that will happen before it happens
The 'intuition' that something will happen. Does this happen to you too: 'I felt it beforehand, I said it wouldn't happen, or I told you that he can't be trusted...' and similar statements? If yes, we can say that you have a strong intuition. If not, don't worry, there are many ways to improve your ability to sense things in advance. But before we talk about how we can strengthen our intuition, let's take a deeper look at intuition.
Intuition is the ability to know something without analytical reasoning, a kind of personal power that fills the gap between the conscious and unconscious parts of our mind. Although it is a bit difficult to define technically, intuition is actually a kind of innate knowing or the ability to know what is true, to sense what is going to happen in advance. Although every person has intuitive abilities, some people use them more effectively, while others may ignore their intuition. This is why some people can make decisions on the fly or act quickly and without fear in situations that are difficult to know and predict; because they trust their intuition.
Intuition is variable, that is, it is not fixed, it does not always stay the same and does not move in the same direction. It changes, transforms and develops, sometimes with effort and sometimes without realizing it. Intuition doesn't come from the conscious mind, it's not an analytical skill, so it doesn't develop through research or by fixating on a goal, running towards it, trying to reach it. Rather, it develops when you are still and take time to stop and think, to be passive, to look back at yourself.
Intuitive people often feel that they can easily pick up on their gut reactions and are comfortable listening to them. For example, one friend may be able to quickly discern what is good and what is bad for a business you are starting together, while other friends may consider all the available options at length. People with strong intuition can make inferences about events and people seemingly without much effort. Strong intuition is important not only for sensing in advance what is going to happen, good or bad, but also for making the right decisions, the right choices. Intuition can be a '*gamechanger*' when reason, logic and rationalism are blocked or insufficient.
There are many scientific studies on intuition, hundreds of books written and thousands of famous names. However, **Dr. Judith Orloff**, the author of The Intuitive Healing Guide, is one of the most effective intuitionists. "Advanced intuition is a 'secret weapon'; it gives you all kinds of information you wouldn't normally have. This is not brain analysis; this is non-linear information. It's a second kind of intelligence." Orloff adds: "People can develop intuition even if they think they don't have it." So let's unleash this power that we all have, and learn how we can make our intuition even stronger.
Especially when you are at a crossroads where you are not sure where you are going or when you are on the verge of a big decision and you wish you could 'hear that voice inside me' or 'somehow know what I should do', you can strengthen your intuition to guide you. Moreover, you can draw strength from your intuition even when you feel the most distressed and hopeless.
We all have some intuitive abilities, that little hidden voice that tries to guide us through life. But the world fills our heads with so many thoughts that we eventually lose the habit of listening to that voice. Meditation practices are an effective way to calm the mind and listen to that voice. When you silence your thoughts, you can listen to your inner voice more clearly and easily and open up your intuition.
Logic is based on information that can be perceived through the senses, so it cannot go beyond what we know, it limits knowledge. Intuition, on the other hand, is beyond what is known, beyond what is perceived with emotion, and has no boundaries, lines or limits. If you realize that logic ends at some point, you can motivate yourself to give your intuition more chances.
As most of us know, the left side of the brain deals with processes based on logic and reality, such as analysis, logical thinking and rational decisions, while the right side deals with creativity, emotions, feelings and intuition. When the left brain is heavily supported, the right can be weakened, and so can intuition. Therefore, you can increase the volume of your intuition by spending time with meditation, music, art activities and similar activities that will activate the right side of your brain.
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