When I started as a manager for the first time, my work life balance was pretty bad. I was everywhere, firefighting, involved in several projects, PMing, hiring, reverse engineering timelines, fighting outages. I was the bottleneck for the team.
Key thing for managers is to "Never have a bottleneck in the team and to definitely not be the bottleneck". It might seem counter-intuitive but a manager is doing well if they can manage themselves out of their job. Here are 10 questions to ask yourself :
Key thing for managers is to "Never have a bottleneck in the team and to definitely not be the bottleneck". It might seem counter-intuitive but a manager is doing well if they can manage themselves out of their job. Here are 10 questions to ask yourself :
- Can you take a week off without disrupting things?
- Can problems be handled without you being in the room all the time ?
- Can the team deliver consistently ?
- Do people feel that you are accessible, open, transparent. Can they share feedback openly ?
- Can you provide good/constructive feedback to your team?
- Can you delegate well ?
- Can you take on work outside your immediate scope ?
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