6 Tasks Impact Nearly All Manager Behavior

Managers spend most of their days acting on behalf of six major tasks. According to classical management theory, five of them are planning, staffing, organizing, leading and controlling.

In real life workplaces, self management is a sixth and unique task that demands regular attention. Managers who can’t manage themselves are hardly inspirations or role models for the people they are supposed to lead.

But it isn’t just for the sake of being inspirational or role models that managers must learn how to manage themselves. In a society that is increasingly data-driven, information overload can swamp them, especially when clients, bosses and co-workers can reach them 24 hours a day. Peak performance is more important than ever.

So effective managers understand and embrace these core tasks that are an important foundation of their daily behavior.

The success of effective managers often depends on their ability to:

“Successful” managers without the above traits (among others) rarely exist. Truly successful ones manage themselves before managing anyone else.

Planning is a hierarchy of vision, mission, strategy, goals and objectives. Managers depend on vision to see a successful future. They depend on mission to stay tightly focused on the path to fulfilling that vision. They develop a strategy with measurable goals and objectives, all of which aim to fulfill the vision and mission.

These rules guide decisions and patterns of behavior that ultimately determine much of the success or failure of both the leader and the…

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