Reflection

REFLECTION PAPER

            The challenge of being a leader, on handling employees, as what I have read from the article is the challenge of one’s ability and also to desire to develop the potentials of his employees. It is a crucial for a manager to enhance the company he is working alongside with the challenge of enhancing the capabilities of the people working under him. There is a need for a supervisor or a manager to have the perfectly honed skills on development coaching.

            A good manager or supervisor knows the difference between a good work and great work together with the skills he has and with the people, that is, the employees, working for him and with him. A manager must develop his employees by encouraging professional development, and that means a manager must guide an employee for the future, the future that is to make ready for the employee to be of great asset to the company and soon to be leader. A manager must also possess the right skill of creating a plan, not just a plan but well-thought plan to make way for the employees to be more goals oriented that is necessary for the skills needed to achieve goals for the company. Also, I’ve learned there is a need for a manager to pair employee’s with a mentor, where all parties involved – mentor, mentee and the company - will benefit. The mentor can enhance his skills, the mentee can learn and the company will be soaring high with the perfect skills both the mentors and mentee together helped achieved.  It is also important to identify opportunities to expand their professional network, it is where employees improve their networking ties and also create solid networks that can help them in their needs for the future. Another crucial role a manager must play is to challenge employees to move out of their comfort zone, so that in order to release their talents and abilities one must move away from things one already knows. The challenge needs providing employees new environment, exposing them to new things to enhance their creativity and also release the inner inhibitions that may help in the company’s betterment. Lastly, hiring a coach or a consultant can be way to develop employee’s, help them visualize their goals, directs them to the right path and help them in their work.

            A manager must therefore be a flexible in all the right areas to achieve goals for the company. A good manager must be equipped with interpersonal skills that will guide and help him in supervising and managing the company and also the employees that will surely let him soar high for himself and for the company.