Friday, January 30, 2009

Professional Managers Needed

Businesses need professional managers who have the knowledge, experience, and special skills needed to grow the business beyond imaginable boundaries.

To run a company from its highest positions, it is not enough to simply pluck a person from the lower ranks based on their individual business unit’s production. How can an associate really be expected to know how to professionally manage an entire business without professional training and an instinctual ability to motivate others to reach beyond their unrealized potential? When that person does very well in his/her position, it’s absolutely wonderful when production from the business unit goes up. Does this however really translate into a person who should manage the business?

A professional manager should understand people and what motivates them to do great work. He/she should have an ability to intelligently supervise the other department managers. A professional manager must be able to understand the business' internal and external environments and develop winning strategies. Areas such as accounting and marketing are keys to successful management - not to mention the ability to drive customer service through the roof. Professional managers understand business tracking systems and they know how to grow the areas that make the business tick. They also know that only with the most efficient time cycles, can a business and its individual units function to their fullest capacity. The best managers can show empathy for individuals. That manager also measures people by their strengths and never judges them solely on their weaknesses. He/she knows how to put the right people on the right jobs and is able to prioritize work effectively based on each task's value. Much of these attributes can and are taught, but many of them are innate - otherwise, they may take years and years to master.

And, many more attributes exist for the professional manager. It is this kind of professional manager that businesses need to grow beyond imaginable boundaries.

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