Generating impact through better management is integral to organizational success.
Here are three questions to evaluate your impact.
- How are you making things better for people? Put simply, if you cannot manage, you cannot lead. Effective managers set clear goals and help people achieve them. They stand ready to support and to evaluate for results.
- How are you making things better for the organization? Alignment with strategic intentions is essential to managerial effectiveness. When a department is not in alignment, it gets crosswise with the larger organization.
- How can you continue to expand your impact? This question gets to the heart of what you can do to improve your ability to manage yourself. Are you keeping abreast professionally?
As a manager, you have influence over others. How you employ that influence creates impact.
Your leadership depends upon your ability to manage well, including bringing out the best in people on your team.
What you do matters to people as well as to the organizations they serve.