Are you a skillful manager?

On March 21, 2009, in Hr - Human resources, by Neculai Fantanaru

Respect the best qualities of the people, by building their horizons in the light of an as natural and as healthier evolution.

Perhaps nothing is more exhausting than to wake up every morning at five o'clock to sprinkle the flowers and trees from the garden. Perhaps nothing is more exhausting than sitting up till late at night, caring for the land and extirpating its weeds. And, last but not least, perhaps nothing is more exhausting than the thought that tomorrow you have to take back all over again.

The idea that work is exhausting never crosses the mind of a gardener, who loves so much this occupation that would be willing to work sometimes even for free. The passion that he puts into everything he does ensures the perfection in his work. He takes care so much of his garden that he gets to know each flower in hand and no corner of ground it is not unknown to him. Yes, thus it is, a gardener must know very well the perimeter of land on which he should take care.

Nevertheless, being a gardener is not easy at all. For taking care of a garden requires first attention, you must be animated by a certain feeling, of a certain attitude; you must feel that plants are a part of your life. You should know how to plant them, how to wet, how to change their ground. Each plant requires a special care, some need more water, others require more light, some of them must be sprayed daily on the leaves if the atmosphere is not humid, and others should be sprayed with insecticide substances for pest control - for their protection and development. More than this, you should know when and how to cut and graft them if you want to get new sorts more aesthetic and more resilient.

Are you serving as a source of light and heat?

Just as a gardener sees in the seed the fully grown tree so you have to see in people your company's future success. That is why the consistent and deepened concern for each of the decisive stages of selection and recruitment process it is so necessary. You must keep in mind their best qualities and the need to recover and enrich their horizons in the light of a development, which would combine the efficiency with dynamism, precision and ingenuity - if you want for your leadership to flourish.

You can contribute to expand the horizons of people and find the inner flame-giving energy that would lead to their more efficient becoming, only if you are animated by a certain feeling or attitude, only if you feel that they are part of life, and if you try to intervene in their development. As a leader, you must serve as a source of light and heat, through the manifestation of your own values, ideals, feelings and activities, by an increase of your contribution to the functioning of their entire being.

Do you see in people your company's future success? Do you intervene as clever as possible in their development? In what constitutes the care that you give them? Does your "luminous" constant and appropriate intensity, provides them the optimum "temperature" for obtaining an as better efficiency as possible?

The best managers of human resources are the skilled gardeners

With the same passion, with which a gardener takes care of the plants, and sometimes with the same effort and patience, a manager must be concerned with the company's staff. He must select people based on well-established criteria, to guide and instruct them in their development and improvement.

A manager is leading on the basis of what he makes, not based on what he says. If the employees are finding out the lack of minimum knowledge or even a lack of professionalism on his part, then they will not be involved in the organizational development or in the continuous improvement of their work. However, in this case, the question arises: how could become a manager an individual without a thorough knowledge?

For the efficiency obtained by a team to be maximum, it is necessary that the manager to follow the proper functioning of the organization's activities.

How well do you know your garden and how are you taking care of it?

A manager has to know his company just as well as a gardener knows his garden. In fact, it is also a matter of common sense. You cannot maintain the company at a high level of performance if you do not know well enough your employees and the practices that they use it. Developing and improving relations with all the employees of the company is the first and the most important step that a manager should make.

What kind of "fertilizer" and what concentration are you using in order to keep people active? Is your relationship with them renewing or matures in contact with your type of personality? Is the development of the company happens under the sign of their transformation? Have they developed themselves under the beneficent effect of your example and guidance?

Just as a skilled gardener knows each plant of his garden apart, so the manager has to know very well all the staff; to know how to evaluate their professional level and to develop their skills. The ability to approach all his employees, to understand and satisfy their needs and to guide them towards the best direction makes the manager more than just a chief, makes him a leader.

Are you wholeheartedly involving yourself in developing the human "base"?

I will not be too long about it. I will add only that. I cannot know with certainty whether you are a skilled gardener, as well as I do not know if you are a talented manager. I do not know if you value your employees as much as a gardener loves his garden plants. All I know is that if you want to be a skillful manager, you must respect the human resources and to get involved wholeheartedly in the development of the human "base" because of it depends for the most part the progress and evolution of an organization.

Respect the best qualities of the people, by building their horizons in the light of an as natural and as healthier evolution.