Hiring a manager is an extremely challenging task no matter if you’re hiring internally or externally. Manager is a position which is going to impact a set of people, processes and technologies. Meaning, it is going to impact the business at large.
It is crucial to make the right decision considering its business wide impact. Here are eleven qualities to hunt for while interviewing a potential manager.
- Result Orientation: The desire to attack on the job every single day to produce the expected results. Ability to set and meet challenging targets. Consistent focus on performance improvement.
- Business Awareness: The aptitude to understand and identify ways to manage people effectively. Inclination towards exploring new business opportunities. Understand business priorities and inclined to make the organization more business-friendly.
- Communication: The ability to communicate precisely and convincingly, orally or in writing. Ability to listen to and acknowledge the facts and respond to it efficiently.
- Customer Focus: The ability to look after internal and external customers to ensure that they are delighted and not just satisfied. The customers would be delighted when their needs, wants and expectations are exceeded with the budget respected.
- People Development: The desire and capability to encourage the development of his or her team members by providing feedback, support, positive criticism, motivation, encouragement and coaching.
- Elasticity: The ability to adapt organization culture and (still) work effectively no matter how stressful the situations are. Willingness to be truthful to the role that he or she is playing regardless of the position or job title.
- Leadership: The ability to influence his or her subordinates and superiors in a way they eventually acquire ability to influence their subordinates and superiors.
- Relationship: The ability to establish profound relationship with his or her team members and with the whole team (as a separate entity) at large.
- Planning: The ability to begin with the end in mind, ensuring that resources required for implementing the projects or tasks will be made available with appropriate planning that tightly support inspection systems.
- Solution Centric Approach: The Capability to unbiasedly analyze situations and circumstances, diagnose problems, identify the key problems, establish, evaluate and reestablish alternatives and produce solutions that are practical and acceptable.
- Teamwork: The ability to work collaboratively with other team members with a complete understanding of the role being played.
The above list of qualities is by no means complete. There are many specific qualities required for specific types of businesses. Please feel free to comment below with your views. I’d love to see this subject extended with your real time experiences, thoughts and insights.
I aim to make this post a valuable online resource while hiring managers. So, what are you waiting for, please share your thoughts, right now.
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