You are a “participative” type manager
You pay particular attention to relationships within your team. There trust and the communication with each of your employees are the foundations of your management. But managing also requires guiding your team and making decisions. Maybe you could consider the more decision-making aspect of your communication and pay more attention to operational matters.
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Your strengths
- You are unifying.
- You know how to establish dialogue in your team.
- You know how to generate team cohesion.
- You involve your colleagues.
- You're a good listener.
The participative manager in high-stakes situations
Two examples:
In a conflict situation, the predominantly “participative” manager will act as a mediator and bring together employees in conflict. He will listen to everyone and encourage dialogue between them. In the absence of a solution, it will not decide and will postpone the resolution of the dispute until later.
Faced with a budget cut, he will bring together his colleagues to discuss the different possible distributions of the new budget. He will seek to satisfy as many needs as possible.
Your areas for improvement
Develop your power of persuasion
Why is this?
In any decision-making process, there is a risk of disagreement that could block the progress of projects. Your ability to convince is then essential to gain support in a climate of trust. This legitimizes and secures your decisions.
How do we do it?
Learn to manage your communication as a whole (verbal, paraverbal, non-verbal), use factual argumentation techniques, adapt your argument to your interlocutor, listen to respond to remarks…
Strengthen your leadership
Why is this?
An assertive leader's attitude helps guide the discussion, avoid dispersion and facilitate decision-making. It relies largely on the self-confidence. Leadership is not the preserve of a few, It’s a skill that can be learned!
How do we do it?
Work on thebody anchor and breathing, practice expressing yourself fluidly, learn to know you better, to understand and manage your emotions, adopt in all circumstances a positive state of mind which will be communicative.
What concrete results?
- Asserted leadership
- Easier decision-making
- Mutual trust
- Strengthened team cohesion