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.
