DE RAYA RANDELL M.

NOVEMBER 9, 2019
CIV182 ENEMAN20

What Makes an Excellent Manager?

Good managers are essential to any successful organization. An exceptionally good manager achieves a
hardworking, productive and effective workforce that punches above its weight in its performance. Good
managers attract exceptional staff; they make the organization a preferred employer; they help to increase market
share; add to profits and surpluses, and reduce costs. Their staff are engaged, committed and go the extra mile.
Managers, however, dance on a fault line-they either have the behaviors that inspire the followers to do, and
without creating any psychological distress, or they do not and the costs will escalate and ripple for a long time.
In order to be an effective manager, you need to be able to lead your employees in an efficient manner.
A lot of responsibility comes with being a manager, and being able to lead a team is required. Here are the qualities
and characteristics an excellent manager must have.
✓ Experience and Knowledge. Experience as a manager is a must but so is knowledge. If you don’t have
experience and knowledge working in a professional environment and leading a team, it will be hard to
step up as a manager.

✓ Innovate and maintain stability. Managers have to put out fires, restore order, and get the project back
on track. At the same time they need to be innovative and develop new, better ways of doing things.
Innovation unravel stable routines and spark new disturbances that have to be dealt with.

✓ General business perspective. Because of the primarily role of manager is to integrate the contributions
of different business and technical disciplines, it is important that a manager have a general grasp of
business fundamentals and how the different functional disciplines interact to contribute to a successful
business.

✓ Effective time management. Time is a manager’s scarcest resource. Managers have to be able to budget
their time wisely and quickly adjust their priorities. They need to balance their interactions so no one
feels ignored.

✓ Good communication. Being able to communicate with your team is required when being an effective
manager. This not only means communicating job responsibilities and expectations but listening to your
team and working with them to produce results with their positions.

✓ Optimist. Managers have to display a can-do attitude. They have to be able to find rays of sunlight in a
dismal day and keeps people’s attention positive. A good sense of humor and a playful attitude are often
a project manager’s greatest strength.

✓ Reliability. A manager that is leading a team has to be reliable. This means being available for your
employees, getting things done that you said you would, and supporting you team however needed.

✓ Respect. If you don’t respect your employees, there will be definitely be tension in your workplace. Be
cognizant of their time and abilities, be able to listen and communicate with them, and be a resource of
knowledge and guidance.

References
The Effective Manager
Call #: HD 31.A537 1995 ; Andre, Tomas D.
Project Management; The Managerial Process 5th Edition
Call #: GC HD 69.P75.L37 2011 ; Larson E. Gray C