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Our Successful Management newsletter is now live and is delivered weekly. In it we have a weekly tip and links to our articles which may be of value - all to help you build your management skills.

Whether you own your own business, are part of a management team, or just want some clues into what is going on in your career and how to get more.

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Successful Management - 90
Helping you to Manage your People Easily and Effectively

October 8th, 2007

in this issue
-- Listen, Hear and Make the Right Decisions

SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT...is a regular online newsletter designed to help you get the very best from your people, in a way which enables everyone to be a winner - including your business or organisation, your people and you!

Eight new readers have shown up this week - good to have you here!

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Hey, it's great to have such a good relationship with your people that they feel able to suggest new ideas and, well, contribute much more than you might expect.

A challenge arises when you have ideas that you feel won't work, yet you want to maintain the generative nature of the relationship you have coming upwards from your team.

Does this become impossible to maintain as you reject their input because, seemingly, you know better?

Possibly.

There are ways to acknowledge great and useful input.

You accept and act on the idea - you win, they win and the business wins. You really acknowledge their contribution, publicly where appropriate.

You hear an idea and although you aren't quite sure about it, you let it roll and see what happens, protecting the individual by helping them learn from the outcome and not, under any circumstances, ridiculing them or saying 'I told you so'.

You consider and reject the idea - here it's very important to talk through your decision, recognizing the valuable contribution they made and encouraging them to make more.

You reject their input and go your own way - this will, over a relatively short period of time, stop the contributions and alienate your people.

Ultimately you have to decide - that's one of your roles. Recognizing that you don't know everything, nor do you have a remit from above to have all the best ideas opens you up to a team collaborative design that will help you a lot.

And that makes for a great team too.

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Based on the work of Martin Haworth
Author, Trainer and Coach
Coaching Businesses to Success
The Succession Planning Toolkit