Are you confident that your company is ready for the future?
Only 15% of HR leaders surveyed felt that their organisations were ready for the future in a new study titled Architecting Future-Fluent Culture: Critical Role of Human Resources.
It appears that the two major concerns for CHROs were leadership development and “building the right culture”. Regarding both areas, management plays a critical role as managers often set the tone for culture and for engagement. In fact, managers alone account for up to 70% of the variance in employee engagement.
At a time when everything is changing quickly and turnover is higher than ever before, good managers and leaders are needed all the more to build inspiring and resilient cultures to help organisations navigate choppy waters.
As a manager, find out what management styles work best in what situations, learn from 20 companies with the best management cultures and see if you have what it takes to become the New Manager and thrive in an experience economy.
5 Important Management Styles and How to Use Them
Great managers understand the kind of teams they are leading and adapt according to situations. Some even switch between or even combine styles depending on the situation and person at hand.
All of these come with practice and experience, but the first step would be understanding what management styles exist and the situations to use them.
Listed in this article are 5 different management styles and guidelines for when to use them.
Top 20 Companies for Management Culture
Culture matters. It accounts for why people join, why people leave and how much effort they put into their work. People stay if what the organisation preaches as “culture” is matched by what they see around them, by the leadership they witness in practice, and by how they are embraced and developed.
Although it is only for the UK region, the 20 companies listed here are still fantastic examples of the different ways culture can be nurtured, whether that’s through letting employees determine their own hours, lunchtime yoga classes or investing in staff through high quality leadership programmes.
Find out what these 20 companies have done right for them to be listed as companies with the best management and working cultures in the UK.
While this article would provide greater insight into these companies and the methodology behind the ranking for culture.
The New Manager: How Organizations Can Thrive In The Experience Economy
According to Deloitte, only 24% of large companies remain organized into separate functional areas such as sales, marketing and service. At innovative companies like Netflix and Spotify, traditional departments have been largely replaced by self-managing, cross-disciplinary teams in which each member is invested in a given project’s outcome.
This new configuration requires a new kind of manager -- one who understands multiple functional areas, can leverage the expertise of people with diverse skill sets and, most importantly, has the courage to challenge the status quo.
Bonus: Stop Managing, Start Leading | Hamza Khan | TEDxRyersonU
According to Hamza, managing millennials and knowledge workers the way we used to manage traditional factory workers can be disastrous. Speaking through his own experience of being managed and alternatively as a manager, Hamza makes the case that millennials must be lead, instead of managed and given autonomy to complete their tasks, so that they may grow and reach their full potential.
About Timeo-Performance
We were founded with a vision to improve the world of work for everyone
We are in the Skills Business!
Through recruitment, training and consulting, Timeo-Performance provides solutions for increased performance of companies, teams, and individuals. As our clients are in the center of global business and often serve the APAC region, our solutions need to be sustainable in a multicultural and remote context.
Our joint venture with Akteos, the European leader in intercultural training, and partnership with digital learning solutions provider CrossKnowledge have therefore been organic and logical additions to our service. Timeo-Performance has been helping companies in APAC increase business performance since 2008 with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.
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As busy professionals, our schedules are often filled to the brim with meetings and tasks to complete. We can get so caught up with work that we might even forget our all-important lunch and power through dinner as well. Alas, we can only do so much given the 24 hours we have in a day. While time management is vital, being productive is another matter in its entirety.Enter time batching.
