The goal of every manager is to find a way to get the most out of each  of their team members. 

What this means is that we need use our manager  skills to stay on top of them and always be monitoring what their  current status is. What we need to be looking for are team members who  are feeling remote or disconnected. They won’t be able to function well  with the rest of the team and their work performance may start to slack  off. 

One thing that managers need to keep their eyes open for is when  the younger members of their team start to show signs of feeling lonely – this is when a manager needs to step in.

As the world has changed and we are all working remotely, video conferencing has arrived as a way for everyone to stay in contact. 

In the beginning  it was an amusing novelty and gave us a chance to see where everyone  lives. However, the initial novelty has now worn off. Just about  everyone has become tired of video conferencing and sorta wishes  that it would go away. As a manager, you need your team to stay  connected and video conferencing is an important tool. 

What can you do  to use your manager skills to prevent video conferencing burn out?

So can we talk about email? 

It’s a key part of our life and it seems  like we spend a great deal of time each day using our manager skills to  read emails that have been sent to us and composing emails to send to  others. However, email has always had a problem. It turns out that the  written word does a very poor job of conveying how the sender is feeling when they are sending it.  When we talk to people we can read their body language and facial  expressions – not so when we are reading their emails. 

It turns out that  there is a way around this problem – emojis.

As a manager, there never seems to be enough time in the day to get  everything done. 

I’m pretty sure that we all wish that we could clone  ourselves so that we would have more hands to help with all of the work  that needs to be done. 

It turns out that cloning does not yet exist;  however, if you can learn how to delegate effectively then you just might be able to find the help that you need in order to get all of your work done.

As managers, a great deal of each day is taken up with dealing with email.  

No matter if it is sorting through all of the new email that has  arrived since we last took a look at it or it is crafting the perfect  response to that email that we just got, all of this stuff takes time. A lot of time.  

How can a manager use our manager skills to get over our addiction to email?

Let’s face it: being a manager is a tough job. 

We’ve got to find ways to  motivate our team to work together in order to accomplish shared goals  that will allow the company to meet its objectives. This is not an easy  thing to do. Then the pandemic hit and everybody went home for a year.  As the pandemic wanes, many firms are deciding that it’s time for their  staff to come back to the office. They want the interaction that can  only happen there – the exchange of ideas, the realization of things  that need to be accomplished. Just one problem: not all of your team  members want to come back into the office. 

What’s a manager to do?

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We all know what is asked of mangers: go out there and get the best team  that you can. 

We do this – we try very hard to both attract and retain  the best people to become members of our team. However, it turns out  that that is not all that we need to be doing. Getting our team members to communicate is key to making the team successful. 

As a manager, you need to take a look at your team and if communication is not happening, then you need to make some changes.

As though you didn’t have enough else to worry about as a manager, it turns out that using your manager skills to keep your team together is an important part of what the company has hired you to do.  

We all understand that the people who make up your team are always  getting calls from headhunters, suggestions from friends, and emails  talking about great new jobs. None of this matters if they are happy  where they currently are. However, if they start to become irritated  with their job, then the chances that they’ll leave become greater. 

Do you know what could cause the members of your team to leave?

When you think of someone who plays video games,  what do you think of? 

If you are like most of us, you picture a young  man with long stringy hair that is unwashed, perhaps wearing a flannel  shirt, black jeans, and combat boots. This person probably doesn’t want  to make eye contact with you and instead prefers to talk with his  friends. It turns out that your image of a gamer is way out of date.  First off, girls play video games also. Additionally, the video game  universe has grown so much that video gamers now look like just about any young person that you might run into. 

This brings up an interesting point for managers: are video gamers the people that we should be hiring?

When you think of someone who plays video games, what do you think of?

If you are like most of us, you picture a young man with long stringy hair that is unwashed, perhaps wearing a flannel shirt, black jeans, and combat boots. This person probably doesn’t want to make eye contact with you and instead prefers to talk with his friends. It turns out that your image of a gamer is way out of date. First off, girls play video games also. Additionally, the video game universe has grown so much that video gamers now look like just about any young person that you might run into.

This brings up an interesting point for managers: are video gamers the people that we should be hiring?