Producer Role:
Becoming a Master Manager – in
the one-person Owner/Manager Business
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 second of nine. The hard part is honesty
and self-analysis and doing each step.
Producer Role: Personal Productivity and Motivation, Motivating Others, Time, and Stress Management.
Personal Productivity and Motivation: doing your own and Clients
tasks. Obtaining motivation from the attraction of working and running your own
business.
Assessment: This can be hard to overcome with both content and time changes.
Learning: About all the
characters involved, with one too many.
Analysis: Done before sharing
with other parties.
Practice: Keep going and stay
happy.
Application: The need to deliver means you must be productive and motivated.
Motivating Others: rests with agreeing on tasks for the Clients' benefit.
Assessment: This can be hard but needs a strong approach, you need to give the client
feedback.
Learning: How to read others by their responses when it is not face to face.
Analysis: Keep producing to
keep others doing the same.
Practice: The more you work
with different characters, the more you adapt.
Application: You need the team to help you produce your deliverables.
Time and Stress Management: managing competency through regular exercise with walking and running.
Assessment: Being out and about
helps you unwind.
Learning: To keep going and
staying calm when communicating with others.
Analysis: Accept that you
cannot always move people and must try your client contact.
Practice: The more you do it,
the better you become.
Application: Helps you build the team spirit.
