Whether you are trained as an architect, lawyer, technician, or entrepreneur, leading a team, managing projects, or running an entire company requires additional skills. The role of a manager adds to the expertise acquired during your years of training.
What can you do to excel in this role?
- Self-learning of managerial techniques.
- Participation in specific training courses.
- Use of dedicated management tools.
Let’s explore some possibilities.
Management courses are an excellent choice.
They require investments of time and energy; however, they offer an in-depth understanding of management principles, although they sometimes fail to provide immediately applicable practical tools. Learning the art of management on your own is the most complex challenge. Would you consider studying architecture or law on your own? With what results?
As business consultants, during managerial assessments, we can easily distinguish leaders who adopt structured management techniques from those who rely solely on their own experience and intuition. The difference between the two approaches is significant and should be combined.
We recommend providing managers with the simplest tools possible. At A4ManagementTools, we have designed over 80 tools, each focused on a specific topic and a single page.
Our experience teaches us that:
- What cannot be resolved with a single A4 sheet will hardly be resolved with an entire notebook
- Excessive time is often spent on form rather than content.
- Those who do not have clear ideas tend to go on unnecessarily
- It is useful to clearly indicate to collaborators what to do, following a well-defined procedure.
- Collaborators should be encouraged to self-learn.
- Sometimes, incompetence is masked by courtesy, although they are two distinct and indispensable aspects.
These considerations have motivated us to develop tools that support managers and collaborators in generating value in a pragmatic and direct way, respecting the teachings outlined here.
