Organizational Awareness

The "new" manager that has not yet chalked his management slate and starts freshly with its new assignment becomes aware of (the) organization. This change starts with a change in his role where he is now cataloged as a manager after having build-up experience in a specific field of expertise.

In the first month the new manager realizes that his (business) expertise is no longer the driving force and he has to build confidence in a new area. Some specialists in his team just continue their work and don't even see him. He calls in a Monday morning meeting and tells a bit about the ideas of higher management and everybody can have their say: what have they done last week, for example.

But how am I going to fill my days thinks the new manager; he used to be so busy with the business, his profession... Basically he must find his business in the organization. What a paradox.

Ok so he's summarizing: what is there to do:
At the end of the year he is to evaluate the employees in the team... so how is he going to do that. At the end of the year they are dependent of the manager for an increase in salary. And how much is that going to be?
- individual job evaluations
- team evaluation
- sick leaves, absence, replacements, trainings, courses,
- meetings, informing about the other parts of the organization.
- what are we going to do (improve) change (new activities), etc

When checking this he finds that in order to execute this work, what he needs most is information. Everything that has been achieved must be registered. Only then he can evaluate how-well and at what costs this is done. He realizes that his salary must be re-gained by his role.

If nobody would administrate this they wouldn't know how good they performed. It's not much, but for a start it is what it is. There are obviously many things to worry about and to improve, but for the moment the new manager is becoming aware that his role is organizational.

But there is nothing to worry about. The new manager is inspired and ambitious and eager to become not merely a manager but a very good one. He thinks about the individual tennis player and has learned that even an individual player needs a manager. So if this is the case, than a team of this size should need one too.

2009 Hans Bool

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