Broker Role: Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 8 of 9 articles

Broker Role:

Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business 8 of 9 articles

Introduction ● The Director Role ● The Producer Role ● The Co-ordinator Role ● The Monitor Role ● The Mentor Role ● The Facilitator Role ● The Innovator Role ● The 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. Explained in each article, this being the eighth of nine. The hard part is honesty and self-analysis and doing each step.

Broker Role:

Building and Maintaining a Power Base,

Negotiating Agreements and Commitment,

Presenting Ideas with Effective Oral Presentations.

Building and Maintaining a Power Base: Work with Clients, Business Partners, and Suppliers. To discover what dependencies affect their businesses.

Assessment: Listen, record, and assess comments.

Learning: To ask constructive questions related to projects current and planned.

Analysis: Helps spot opportunities.

Practice: Proposal and Tender writing.

Application: Act as information Broker.

Negotiating Agreements and Commitment: With each of these dependencies above. Match these to Projects, and deliverables to the right team.

Assessment: This will be the hard part because other projects might be in conflict.  

Learning: To adjust and still make the deliverables.

Analysis: Be honest and agreement should be easy.

Practice: From experience be able to readjust.

Application: Showing commitment wins support.

Presenting Ideas with Effective Oral Presentations: This comes with practice. And the study of good presenters.

Assessment: The contents of the project story.

Learning: How to tell the project story.

Analysis: Verbal agreement from all parties.

Practice: Speak out loud the project story to check it sounds right and to remember it.

Application: Levers all the team member's skills.

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Innovator Role: Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 7 of 9 articles

Innovator Role:

Becoming a Master Manager in the one-person Owner/Manager Business 7 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] 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 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 seventh of nine. The hard part is honesty and self-analysis and doing each step.

Innovator Role: Living with Change, Creative Thinking and Managing Change.

Living with Change: This is driven by global changes in health, technology, economics, and politics.

Assessment:    The pandemic has shaken people.     

Learning:        Lockdown and WFH has made people think about changing their life’s.           

Analysis:         No commute, quiet roads, and healthier life.

Practice:          The lockdown has enabled it.

Application:    WFH and no commute are win-win and some companies that do not the change will   end up with no employees.     

 

Creative Thinking: Is turning problems upside down and thinking outside the box to find solutions. 

Assessment:    More and more people will be doing this.

Learning:        People must learn enough to be members of Sprint[3] Teams.        

Analysis:         This will lead to more productivity.          

Practice:          Coaching will aid know-how.  

Application:    Product and Service solutions in 5 days.       

 

Managing Change: Requires good Project Management [2] and working in partnership with the Client or Business Partners or Suppliers.

Assessment:    Based on obtaining a Client Brief.      

Learning:        Who does what and how to change them.

Analysis:         How to do the changes needs input and constructive questions.     

Practice:          Learn by doing.          

Application:    When required by any project.

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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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