Tuesday 6 October 2015

Neil Castaldi: Three Skills All Good Managers Must Possess

To succeed as a manager at any company at any level, you have to motivate your workers and your team to excel in the tough times, even when the project seems impossible. Workers respond to good managers when they feel that their boss cares about them and wants them to succeed. You can’t coddle your team either, or your leadership will fall under suspicion. Striking this balance has confounded the best natural leaders from ancient times until now.

Here are three skills that you have to develop if you want to be a good manager:

Honesty. It doesn’t sound like a skill, but telling the truth takes some practice. It’s easy to tell people what they want to hear, but telling them the truth can be an entirely different matter. Managers have to stick up for their team and tell their superiors the truth at all times. They also have to be honest to their team members

Patience. Managers have to wait and take a step back sometimes to get the full picture of a situation before they decide to act. This takes years to control, but patience will always lead to a better understanding of a situation over haste.

Character. Derived from honesty, character is important in any organization. If a manager can’t be trusted, he or she could become a cancer to the organization as a whole.

Neil Castaldi has been a manager in the hospitality industry for 35 years. He even took up corporate leadership during his time in the industry as well, opening his own restaurants and managing several hotels in various regions.

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