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The management style guide - mastering any management situation. Improves your management skills.

Management Style Guide

 
MSG - easing the job of the manager
How can you manage more effectively with less energy? The MSG is a general management toolkit that supports your own management approach. The method is an answer to the growing complexity of organizations because of more and more specializations.  
The approach is based on the 80/20-rule in making decisions, where 80 percent of the decision can be taken or delegated by just referring to standard principles, which have been agreed on earlier. This gives you time to focus more on people management, strategy or other essentials that normally don't reach the management team. By using this method you can focus your energy on the 20% of the special cases, the real unique situations.

The MSG is like Kite-surfing: steering with the wind that blows through your organization:

Benefits are:

  • Making possible to handle more decisions in less time
  • Clearer communication to you team and organization
  • Easier to delegate decisions
  • Mastering conflicts and resistance
  • Frees up time for other aspects that easily get snowed under
How does it work?
There are three basic steps in dominating the MSG:
  • Redefine or define your Organizational Style.
    • The style of your organization is visible in many aspects. Each company has it's own style, which is unique. However there are many similarities amongst organizations.
  • Distillate general steering principles that support and drive your style. Refine the principles in new situations
    • Behind each style there are some driving principles. Try to distillate these principles by examining situations in which to take a decision, or in which way previously decisions were taken.
    • Prioritize the principles.
  • Communicate the principles.
    • Communicate the principles to your organization, management and team members.
    • This can be done in many ways, for example, by starting in your management team.
Mastering once and benefit for ever
Because of the recurring - continuous - process, the MSG is easily mastered and can be combined with your own management approach.

This is a continuous process:

  • Re define the organizational style when ever needed

  • Principles are refined in a process whenever more information come up. This is not done in a big-bang approach but gradually

  • Communicate. The most essential part of management. Make the principles explicit, so everyone can commit to them

 
Features
  • Access to the style assessment
  • Management Style Guide Template
  • Support with the implementation / refinement process
How to Start?
Simply by registering for the organizational Assessment.  

Status & Improvement Guide

 

SIG - easing the job of the manager

The Status and Improvement Guide is similar to the MSG but it is focused on a self-defined benchmark. It will show you the differences in response of a manager on the benchmark or even of the management team's response on the benchmark.

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