Moving from Managing Managers to being a Functional Manager
Manoj Onkar
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Manoj Onkar
MANAGEMENT INNOVATIONS - PURPOSE: Helping Leaders create extraordinary organizations. _ Future Ready Organizations. _ Organizations where people bring their head, heart and soul. _ Be a positive impact on the planet.
(continued sharing based on the Book - Leadership Pipeline)
This is the level of leadership that most people are not prepared for
Mature leaders have developed the following:
- Empathy,
- Judgement
- Listening
- Timings
- Sources of information - formal and informal
- Giving feedback without curbing creativity and ownership
- Balancing Long term thinking and Short term thinking
As a functional manager, one must be grounded in the concept that their function exists to support the overall organizational objectives
5 Key Requirements
1. Mid term thinking (3 - 5 yrs horizon)
2. Awareness levels of the highest order
3. Organizational Strategic Orientation
4. In-depth understanding of the Business Model
5. Inclusive thinking of all aspects of the functions - not only their strength areas
6. Supporting Organizational success instead of just functional Success
Feel free to add to the list from your experience...
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9 年Quite an elaborative inventory . We can add on the ability to appreciate role & responsibility of other functions. It's visible looking at the nature of cross functional coordination by a functional manager.