How to lead and motivate managers in your team is different from how you manage employees. Managers have a different range of skills and expertise compared to employees. 

How to lead managers and get the best from your managers takes a few changes to your leadership style. I explain 5 big differences in leadership approach needed for success in leading your managers. 

I cover why leading managers is different from leading employees with practical tips on exactly what to do differently. 

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To lead and motivate managers in your team, start by giving them more space. If you manage your managers like you do your employees, chances are that they will not be happy AND you will waste a ton of their talents. For how to lead and motivate managers start by setting really clear goals and direction with them. I share 4 other really effective approaches for leading managers versus employees. 

Next, for how to lead more junior managers, focus on delegating problems not tasks. Maximise use of your managers’ problem solving, organisational, and people skills to solve problems you and your team faces. You also create time to focus on the hard more complex problems which means better solution building across the team as a whole. 

Third, help your managers develop leadership skills through coaching, mentoring, creating opportunities and more. I share tips and tactics that have worked very well in many companies. Another example of the differences in successfully leading managers. 

Fourth, help your managers to think strategically. Strategic thinking or big picture thinking is an increasingly important skill as you rise through the ranks. Starting early will make their progress easier quicker and more successful. You will also get more aligned actions and more focus on the most valuable work which helps drive team performance in the short term. 

Lastly, very important leadership skills for managers include the ability to build and maintain good professional relationships with a much wider range of people and personalities. I share tips on how to help your managers raise their profiles and build networking skills. 

If you have any questions on “Leading Your Managers - 5 Big Differences To Managing Employees”, please email me at [email protected] and I will get back to you. 

Jess Coles 

Enhance.training