Mmi leadership 9

Editor's Notes

1. Transitioning from individual contributor to manager can be a challenging journey, and yet, after a year, most managers look at themselves and realize how far they've come—and how much they've changed. Becoming an effective manager enables you to satisfy some important psychological needs. Achievement. The role of manager gives you the opportunity to achieve in new ways: Learn about and master new skills Accomplish important work in challenging new ways Support your company's vision and mission in new ways Influence. Being a manager is all about exercising influence. In the workplace, influencing others to achieve shared goals can be very satisfying. As a manager, you develop networks of relationships with the many different people on whom you depend to get things done. Over time, you get to know what's most important to each of these individuals, how you can best help them achieve their goals, and how they can best help you. You exchange information and other resources in mutually supportive, beneficial ways. Affiliation. Many managers have a need for affiliation—being part of and contributing to something larger than just themselves. Our connections with other people can deeply satisfy our need for affiliation, and our jobs often help us satisfy this deep need. Work provides us with numerous opportunities to collaborate with others to accomplish shared goals that transcend our own personal aims.