3. Self knowledge is invaluable to any one seriously intent on choosing the right life path.
4. If you, as a manager, don’t know yourself, you will be led into making ill-advised decisions about your life and work from which it may be difficult of impossible to extricate yourself.
5. It would be wrong to suggest that self knowledge is they key to managerial success.
6. A good manager will need a range of skills and knowledge which come with experience.
7. You will need to practice skills, take advice, use other’s strengths and work hard.
8. But self examination is a good starting point and is rarely stressed when it comes to choosing the right job for your and doing your present job best.
9. If you are not enjoying your job, look at situations in the past where you have enjoyed yourself and done well at something.
10. The chances are that you have strayed away from your natural abilities and a move to recapture them will be rewarding for you and the company you work for.
13. Do you begin to feel anxious in the evening at the prospect of work the next day?
14. Do you talk obsessively to your partner about your work or about a member of staff?
15. Do you find yourself working late regularly or not taking your lunch hours because you feel you need to impress or because you have been given or taken on too much work?
16. Are you offhand or short tempered with your subordinates or peer colleagues?
17. Are you enjoying your job and clear about where it is taking you?
18. Do you feel your boss is incompetent and that you could do his/her job just as well?
19. Are you sick of being delegated to and not delegating?
25. To be an effective person or manager you must realize that your satisfaction requirements change.
26. In the mid of 1950 A.H. Maslow a pioneer in management psychology, put forward the theory that there are five basic need which people aim to satisfy. How many of Maslow’s need does your job fulfill?
27. A.H. Maslow’s management psychology PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS The basic need for food, clothing and shelter SAFETY NEED The need for security, continuity, protection against anything that threatens an organized orderly existence. SOCIAL NEEDS The need to belong and be accepted in a social context ESTEEM NEEDS The need to have status and other respect SELF FULFILMENT NEEDS The need to fulfilled through the creative use of your natural aptitudes and practiced skills which lead to self actualization.
28. Role model Natural aptitudes Practiced skills Strengths Enjoyment Success