Facilitator Role: Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 6 of 9 articles

Facilitator Role:

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] Becoming a Master Manager

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

[3] How to solve Big Problems in just 5 days

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

Facilitator Role: Team Building[2] , Participative Decision Making[3], and Conflict Management.

Team Building: With the Client or Business Partners or Suppliers. Helps to improve the relationships and keep communication channels open.

Assessment: Based on their responses to my views.

Learning: Giving more reasoned views.

Analysis: Making deliverables easy.

Practice: Helps the team adjust the processes.

Application:    Able to agree on the approach to each project.

Participative Decision Making: In the one-person business this is the only way forward. It helps you operate in the Virtual Team with the Client or Business Partners or Suppliers.

Assessment: Virtual Teams need member's best efforts.

Learning:     How to work with others.

Analysis: Team decisions are easy.

Practice: Members develop a better approach.

Application: We let all Team members play their part.

Conflict Management: Another hard one, that requires thought. Personal control to keep relationships working and prevent losing work.

Assessment: Changes cause conflicts.

Learning:     The Team must agree on the way forward.

Analysis: We do not want to be caught out.

Practice: Helps Team members avoid conflict.

Application: Know how to overcome conflict.

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Mentor Role: Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 5 of 9 articles

Mentor Role:

Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business 5 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 being 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 fifth of nine. The hard part is honesty and self-analysis and doing each step.

 

Mentor Role:

Understanding Yourself and Others, Interpersonal Communications and Developing Understanding through Relationships.

Understanding Yourself and Others:

This might be the hardest. And need a range of people to give you feedback from the Client or Business Partners or Suppliers.

Assessment:   Take feedback onboard and make changes.

 

Learning:        From asking constructive questions.

 

Analysis:        Perform analysis of their answers.

 

Practice:         Improving relationships by being more understanding and listening more.

 

Application:   Making your case. By supporting the Client or Business Partners or Supplier's                                needs.

Interpersonal Communications:

With the Client or Business Partners or Suppliers. Helps maintain the relationships and keep communications channels open.

Assessment:    Report progress daily by email or FB Messenger or Google Meet.

Learning:        Keep reporting short and precise.

Analysis:        On any feedback or comments.

Practice:        Apply or resolve feedback or comments.

Application:  Make changes in future reports.

Developing Understanding through Relationships:

With the Client and/or Business Partners and/or Suppliers.

Assessment:    Different organisations have different ways of doing the required tasks.

Learning:        How to get on with people take time.

Analysis:        Make notes on points worth remembering.

Practice:        How to approach people and when.

Application:  To deliver your part of the Projects in sync with others.

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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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Co-ordinator Role: Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 3 of 9 articles

Co-ordinator Role:

Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 3 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 third of nine. The hard part is honesty and self-analysis and doing each step.

Co-ordinator Role: Planning, Organising, and Controlling.

Planning: Together with Time Management helps to make decisions on what will be done first and by who and in agreement with related parties.

Assessment: Work to plan on a spreadsheet, even when it is in your head.

Learning:         Keep the plan right as per the Client Brief with updates.

Analysis:          Feedback from the Client.

Practice:          The more you do it, the better you become.

Application:     Deliverables on agreed dates and approved.

 

Organizing: With the Client, defining what is wanted and who does what.

Assessment:    The Client brief is the bible.

Learning:         How to approach others, without waving the stick (Client Brief).

Analysis:          Working with others to get it right.

Practice:          Organising what you need from other parties takes practice. Clients try it on so refer to the Brief.

Application:     Needs constructive questions and answers.

 

Controlling: Output to and from the Client.

Assessment:    Sometimes too many people with contact information. The result of sending to much output to the Client.      

Learning:         Not allowing information overload.

Analysis:          Different approaches for different Clients.

Practice:          Over time develop these approaches.

Application:     Learning to stay in control, but not be aggressive or argumentative.

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Producer Role: Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 2 of 9 articles

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.

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Director Role: Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 1 of 9 articles

Director 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 first of nine. The hard part is honesty and self-analysis and doing each step.

Director Role: spotting an opportunity and selling it to the Client a Media Company or Supplier Client (Upwork).

Pitch:                10 Articles (400 to 600 words) in 10 days about product applications.

Assessment:     Check product data and request clarity if needed.

Learning:          From reading the content supplied.

Analysis:          Identifying key points and unusual steps.

Practice:           Writing articles in plain English, to explain technical aspects of the products.

Application:     Articles used in Blogs to boost sales of products.

 

Setting Goals:  Agreeing with the Client on who is doing what and agreeing on the form of                                              measurement.

Assessment:     Estimate each task and add it to a spreadsheet.       

Learning:         Manage changes based on feedback and add feedback to the spreadsheet.

Analysis:          Re-writing an explanation of the change process.

Practice:           Discovering the Inputs and Outputs required to confirm the changes.

Application:     Any changes related to the current project.

 

Delegating Effectively: Reaching agreement on the handover with the Client.

Assessment:    Draft Handover Plan agreed.

Learning;        Technical points made clearer.

Analysis:         Measurement of inputs and outputs explained.

Practice:          End Users need configuration and test cases details expanded.

Application:    Final Handover Plan agreed.

Notes:

The Handover Plan lists the name of the article, Owner, Approved, and Date. Often have a different product or service contact so add these to the spreadsheet. Normally on a 3 month or longer project.

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