There is no future in any managerial job – it’s you as the manager to create the future.

Your team has worked hard, yet the organization fails to succeed in achieving its goals. Why? Hire additional people and expect to achieve better results?

As a manager, you have resources available for your use and you also have the authority to mobilize those resources. When you as the manager face situation described above, the first step you must take as a manager is to see whether your people are working as a team? Secondly, check whether or not they all have understood the goals? If they do then check whether or not they move along in the orchestrated ways as they strive for the achievement of those goals?

If your people have been working as a team, and follow the paths required then you must check their individual skills and capabilities. If you want to accomplish more through your team, you have to become a developer of people.

You may think that expertise, capability and good judgment are natural traits; but it is not the case. Because your purpose as a manager is to achieve results through and sometime together with your people, outstanding people skills are important qualities that affect success because they make the processes run efficiently hence increase productivity and as the result also increase the motivation of your team.

For an organization to achieve success, you as one the managers must continuously make sure that your team members learn new skills from time to time. Even if you think that you already have the best possible team, the members of your team can grow and become even better through continuous on and off the job training and learning process.

Create the future by being proactive in developing your team members’ skills and abilities from time to time.