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Welcome to the fitting room of reality for Senior Managers


You are a senior manager? That shows dedication and resolution. Congratulations!

Let's just measure you up and see what we have in your size today then shall we?

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Can I ask you to lay down all that responsibility and care for just a moment while we talk about how you can go on an even more amazing career journey. If you are a senior manager you must have clearly focussed objectives. Leadership versus management is not a problem for you because you manage by leadership. I take my hat off to you. You must also be someone who finishes what they set out to achieve in a world that needs leadership, vision and determination. They say that to succeed in business you have to be ruthless but I don't believe it. I think the secret of great managers and leaders is the ability to see opportunity and know what to do about it. I would go even further and say that to succeed you must be able to see worth in other people and know how to work with them to achieve great things.

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  1. Welcoming change
  2. Recognising, pre-empting and neutralising disinformation
  3. Identifying the real objectives right at the beginning
  4. Clear and concise communication of vision
  5. Knowing and sharing the real time-scales and what is driving them
  6. Knowing what the real budget is and who is controlling it
  7. Pruning away the unnecessary mercilessly
  8. Getting to know colleagues and what inspires them
  9. Understanding and predicting consequences based on cause and effect
  10. Taking the heat and protecting worthwhile endeavours from politics and its fall out
  11. Understanding the basic interconnectedness of things
  12. Understanding politics and its effects on your organisation
  1. Organisational skills
  2. Ability to scale
  3. Communication skills
  4. Negotiating skills
  5. Collaboration
  6. Knowing how and when to compromise
  7. Coaching skills
  8. Planning skills
  9. Estimation skills
  10. Design skills
  11. Prioritising skills
  12. Ego-less working
  13. Effective listening
  14. Decision making skills
  15. Recognising progress
  16. Waste reduction skills
  17. Courage
  18. Filtering information effectively
  19. Honesty
  20. A sense of humour
  21. Optimism
  1. Dependency the politics of fear
  2. Rigidity in the face of change
  3. Waiting for 100% certainty while opportunity knocks
  4. Relying on spin over honest dealing
  5. Thinking too small or too big
  6. Not recognising snake oil salesmen
  7. Not recognising the genuine who bring opportunity
  8. Throwing resource at vanity projects
  9. Underestimating colleagues
  10. Arrogance
  11. Impatience
  12. Procrastination in the face of readiness
  13. Isolationism
  14. Divisive secrecy
  15. Indiscretion
  16. Divide and conquer
  17. Command and control

The trousers of reality is of interest to senior managers because it takes an organisational perspective. It explains why you are right to appreciate the perspective of people who may not have your vision or hunger for success. It discusses the realities of leadership versus management and offers pragmatic suggestions. It discusses inspiring others and gives you suggestions as to how to use your experience and hard won skills to guide those who follow you. It confirms that their happiness is important to you and that this happiness will bring loyalty and productivity. It assures you that your people will produce amazing results from the inspired leadership you are capable of giving them. It explains traditional methods along with Agile, Lean and a host of others and immediately hands you the key to all of them.

Your readiness to learn and adapt is, as always, the critical measurement. What you need to do is to get really good at knowing what to use and how, where and when to use it. You need a trousers with lots of pockets for all the handy tools you pick up as you go. You need a trousers that comes with a toolbelt that you can simply use straight away but that will become more and more effective as your own skill grows.

Whether you are hugely successful or whether you are experiencing difficulties coping with the challenges of the modern workforce you will feel re energised and inspired as you climb to the top of the company and enjoy the view. The fact that you have the courage to take the responsibility of being a senior manager tells us that you are ready for grown up trousers. So try these trousers on and as fashions change you can find that they are functional, comfortable, elastic and flexible in ways that you have only dreamed of.

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