Is it really hard to be a qualified manager?

Career pathways are narrow, and the "pyramid" structure is a good picture of how everyone will walk in the workplace. In today's workplace, where jobs are closely linked to pay, technical experts will one day face this gorgeous and painful metamorphosis. Can the technology and management of the two effective mastery of the people is the real talent, is the outstanding enterprise fierce competition for the elite. This article summed up my years of work experience and understanding.

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When a good sniper to become a general, the first thing to overcome is their own shooting technology is too good, always want to go in person. The outstanding technical ability achievements today's we, but in the management position, already can not blindly indulge in the unceasing pursue to the technology. To understand more clearly that their task is no longer a simple technical work, the team management function has promoted us to a more important position, so from the whole team to consider the success or failure of the whole group of managers should have one of the basic qualities.

Of course, as it employees, technical work will accompany our entire career, we can still be a technical expert, with a solid technical background, which helps to better communicate with the team, better understand the difficulties and achievements of the team. and excellent management ability can make the team united, for the common goal of unremitting efforts to achieve the final victory. Therefore, at the same time with the bigger picture, the technical ability and management ability are complementary and indispensable.

The Art of Integration

It organizations are often complex and are often composed of technical experts, developers, Third-party consultants, and vendors who implement them in various fields. As a manager, must understand the art of integration-both to control and coordinate the resources, to avoid waste of resources, but also to effectively organize everyone to advance together, to provide a full play for each individual role of the environment.

Communication and presentation

Communication and speech may be the most sore spot for most tech-born managers. However, without good communication and speech skills, it is difficult to become a good manager. We are no longer in small office partitions with headphones coded a day of engineers, and is no longer the computer room is responsible for maintenance equipment system management personnel. Management positions need to communicate with people, understand the progress of work, encourage players, explain the company's management requirements, and no need for good communication skills. At the same time, report to superiors, show work results, interact with customers or suppliers, and need excellent speech skills without exception.

In fact, to improve the ability of communication and speech, we should focus on two aspects: improving the ability to understand others and increasing the likelihood that others will understand themselves. This will continue to enrich their knowledge, with all levels of people to communicate, more in various meetings to give lectures, will be able to successfully pass this threshold.

Integrity

Remember how much we hated the management's "Lies" and the "promises" we had never honoured, so be sure to keep that in mind when you embark on a management position. Do not promise to do things, promise to cash, give others the expectation and then extinguish it, more than the shock of no expectations. The management of the lack of integrity of the team is not the combat effectiveness of their own can not do things, how to expect the players to do it?

Summary

Management is a combination of multiple disciplines and multiple competencies. Therefore, from the technical position to the management position is a step-by-step process, not overnight. Only in the work of continuous learning and accumulation, and constantly improve themselves, to become a truly qualified manager.

The author Chous, the CTO of Coca-Cola bottling investment group China.