Monitor Role: Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 4 of 9 articles



Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business 4 of 9 articles

Introduction ● Director Role ● Producer Role ● Co-ordinator Role ● Monitor Role ● Mentor Role ●  Facilitator Role ● Innovator Role ● Broker Role ● Integration and the Road to Mastery

 

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Becoming-Master-Manager-Competing-Approach/dp/0470284668

[2] www.apm.org.uk Association of Project Managers (APM). Ex-council member.

 

Introduction: The article is based on the book [1] a “Competency Framework”. Its evolution and eight roles that a Manager should be doing day-to-day. These will be explained in each article, this being the fourth of nine. The hard part is honesty and self-analysis and doing each step.


Monitor Role:

Reducing Information Overload, Analyzing Information with Critical Thinking and Presenting Information by Writing in plain English.

Reducing Information Overload: This requires control and focus to stay on track.

Assessment:    Read the information and make notes. Stop and have 5-minute breaks every two                             hours.

Learning:        This is a case of learning by doing.

 

Analysis:         If you do not plan the process, you will become grumpy and/or argumentative.

 

Practice:         Overtime you will learn how much time you need per 1,000 words and can plan out the time.

 

Application:   Like a lot of roles it is something you learn by doing.

Analyzing Information with Critical Thinking: Extracting the information. To complete the task or project. To point out what is missing and therefore required.

Assessment:    Block diagrams missing product or service specification data.

 

Learning:        From experience the required data.

 

Analysis:         All products or services have inputs and outputs.

 

Practice:         Walk through the supplied data to check it is logical.

 

Application:   Quality Control check as part of the Monitor role.


Presenting Information in plain English: Uses the two steps above as inputs. To produce the output for completing this competency.

Assessment:    Assess the two earlier steps, and produce the data required.

 

Learning:        From experience when the data looks right.

 

Analysis:         Comes when describing the data that something needs to be expanded.

 

Practice:         Helps to see when things are right or wrong.


Application:   This completes the Monitor role.


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