Every manager has two jobs - that of supervisor and that of coach. In order to be effective, you must balance the skills of each of these roles. Try these strategies. Goals Goals work - IF you write them on paper and share them with your team members. We encourage the involvement of the team in planning goals which involve them.
Failure is the only path to success.
Nothing worth doing was ever done well the first time, or the thirty-first time. Risk taking is prevalent in environments in which there is almost as much reward for effort as for success, and where there is more punishment for lack of effort than for failure. Reward for effort, punish for lack of effort. 3 Delegate More Effectively I've yet to meet the manager who honestly feels they delegate as fully and effectively as they would like. Yet we know delegation is an essential part of management.