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We're not born with the ability to be a good manager.
Being a good manager depends on managing yourself well, as well
as knowing how to interact with others on you team so that individually team
members do a good job and the team functions as a team whenever it is needed
that the collaboration is there and that team members are learning from each other.
I am Deborah Kerr and I'm an instructor with the Professional Development
Center at UT. And today I'm teaching a class on making the transition from
employee to manager.
They may be managing people with whom before they were colleagues.
It may be a team member who is promoted to management. The role is very different
and the relationship with your former colleagues changes right away.
How do they help employees be successful, in not only completing their
work, but growing in the job? So delegation means that the manager is going to assign
task or a project to an employee. One of the biggest challenges that managers - new
managers - have is to keep the hands off the project,
to discipline themselves not to tell the employee how to do the project but rather
support the employee in being successful in completing the project.
People come to this class for a variety of reasons. They may be unsure about how
effective their particular approaches to management are, and this is an opportunity
for them to reflect on their own personal management style and learn ways that
they can adjust that style to make it more effective.
People who take classes from UT PDC can count on being able to take away
concrete, specific learnings that they can apply immediately on the job.
They're going to take away learning that will help them do better as a manager
the day after they take the class.