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Most people are looking for someone who can help them build knowledge and skills as they work toward a valuable goal.
As workers get more used to a fluid workplace, where longevity in one firm isn’t the goal and developing a portfolio of skills is more important, managers who can offer learning opportunities will be in high demand.
The key is to set clear goals.
here are 3 traits which managers in any field can learn from great teachers:
Define goals and communicate them clearly
Identify and build your team’s skills
Create opportunities for growth
Put into practice, these attributes can help to create a positive environment filled with motivated and creative people, inside a school, a business, or any organization that relies on people to be creative and dedicated to shared goals.
Helping employees grow has an additional benefit to the manager who does it well — the opportunity for personal professional growth.
One of the best career tips I’ve received was from a former CEO of SAP. He said that, in every organization, his first task was to begin training his replacement, so that when the opportunity came for his next step, there’d always be someone ready to fill his role and continue the team’s success.
The teacher-leader, by continually growing and teaching her own team, paves the way for her own success.
read the original unedited article at https://hbr.org/2018/09/great-employees-want-to-learn-great-managers-know-how-to-teach
Most people are looking for someone who can help them build knowledge and skills as they work toward a valuable goal.
Its important for managers to ask employees about their short and long term goals to identify learning opportunities the employees would be interested in, and then to set clear goals.
communicate, educate, grow