Tweak™- 10 Seconds Or Less To Becoming A Better Manager
In the year 2015, seventy-five percent of your workforce is going to be either over age 50 or under age 30. That means you are more likely to see seventy year-olds working alongside twenty year-olds. Are your managers prepared to manage that 50-year age disparity? If you think you can manage a Gen Y the same as a Baby Boomer, because you've always managed that way, you're sadly mistaken. You will not be ready for the fallout and your company will suffer as a result. (Kevin Burns)
Based on his forthcoming book, Tweak™ - Building A Better Workplace In 10 Seconds Or Less!, author and Management Consultant, Kevin Burns, offers up a new cohesive strategy for managing a modern-day workforce.
This is a new time, a new market, with new faces employing new ideas, new concepts and new values. And the changes are only going to get bigger and faster.
What would you say to building a management strategy out of the following practices and ideologies:
- Kaizen (continuous self-improvement)
- Team sports coaching
- Leadership development
- Mentoring/succession planning
- Text messaging
- and even Pest control?
Now, think about extracting the best-practices from each of them (and several more) and developing a managerial mindset that is so simple and effective to use that it can build employee trust, employee engagement and employee high-performance in 10-second segments when practiced daily.
This is Tweak™ - 10 Seconds Or Less To Becoming A Better Manager.
Tweak™ is not difficult to comprehend or to practice. It does not involve long hours in boring sessions. It is not about creating a paper trail and filling out endless reports.
No, Tweak™ is about employing the natural talents of most decent middle-managers and having a keen understanding of what triggers an employee's internal motivation: creating a more focused, loyal and engaged employee.
A Manager's Ultimate Responsibility
The real responsibility of the middle-manager is to build strong, reliable teams and team-members turning positive growth results while keeping down attrition and staff-turnover. Whatever the middle-manager does with this responsibility, the results show up in your Corporate Culture.
Employees turn over, not because of company policies and practices but because of managers within the company. The employee leaves and the offending manager stays put - repeating the cycle again and again until too many good employees are lost.
Simply put: if you improve the manager you improve the results. That's the purpose of Tweak™.
Tweak™ Will Reduce:
- autocratic managers
- managers who hide in offices and avoid people and decisions
- managers who are quick to blame
- managers who offer poor communication, direction or instruction
- reduce absenteeism
- reduce attrition and turnover
Tweak™ Will Increase:
- employee engagement
- performance and productivity
- workplace communication
- employee morale
- acceptance of change
- increased innovation and new ideas
- increased productivity
- increased customer loyalty
- stronger, more cohesive corporate Culture
Tweak™ - 10 Seconds Or Less To Becoming A Better Manager is available as a keynote presentation (coming soon as a management training session). Download an info package to discuss for your next meeting.
