People Management - When dealing with people...

                                      

The task of people management starts right from our childhood days. While some one asks do you like your father or mother we had to manage to give an answer that satisfies both of them. Just like this we start to manage people in the form of friends, relatives, neighbors and colleagues.

By management programme this will get us a bit forward with a specific definition as 'people management' encompasses the tasks of  recruitment, management and providing ongoing support & direction for the employees of an organization.This is not a simple thing to do as in past.

Managing the employees is not a matter of ability it’s a matter of attitude. If we aren’t able to handle some personality, then how to do it by means of our attitude plays a vital role in it.

As a manager the main job is to focus both on, hiring the right one and  bring out the best out of them. If an employee is not channelized then this will develop offensive behavior towards the organization.

We have to cross over the people who are Collaborative/Uncooperative, Talented/Untalented, Aggressive/Easygoing, Well Intensioned/Inadvertent, Moody/Easily distracted and so on.

So how are you going to manage matters for a successful manager.

Here are some tips for people management,

1.First is communication, its better if you keep the lines of communication open. It will reduce the issues among your employees is more appreciable.

2.Clarify their roles and responsibilities in the organization and also check if there is any inefficient resources for them in the organization.

3.You need to know individual strength and weakness and use this knowledge to balance the productivity of your team.

4.Discuss about employees productivity on weekly basis and give feedback on their job performance.

5. You can ask for ideas because one of the important factor for high turnover is poor management, so get their views & follow the same.

6.Motivate your employees by recognition,it is much more effective than incentives or rewards.

7.Have trust on your employees and expose it ,that’s one of the best way among people management. 

8.Be flexible with every employees don’t take yourself  too seriously keep a good sense of humour this helps to maintain a good relationship.

9.We can also have some people empowerment programme within the organization in which employees can go with their own decisions not waiting for the response from management.

10.Conflict is simply tension,it may be good or bad but  as a best manager don’t avoid conflict at the same time be cautious on a thing that you are going to continue your work with them. 

Managers are not individual contributors it is depends on responsible work of others, so learn to manage people & increase your performance. So start managing people and succeed in achieving your goal.

 This post was written by Ramyadevi, I year PGDM