{"id":15,"date":"2023-06-23T08:58:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T08:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.178.85.15\/?p=15"},"modified":"2023-06-23T08:58:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T08:58:10","slug":"great-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/2023\/06\/23\/great-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a Great Manager?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"599\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/18.132.103.31\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-27.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-399\" style=\"width:597px;height:597px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-27.png 599w, https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-27-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-27-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taken from <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why good leaders make you feel safe | Simon Sinek | TED\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lmyZMtPVodo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"simpletoc-title\">Table of Contents<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"simpletoc-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#borrowing-an-abbreviation-from-one-of-my-managers-and-adding-my-own-twist\">Borrowing an Abbreviation from one of my Managers and adding my own twist.<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#a-few-additions-i-have-learnt-along-the-way\">A few Additions i have learnt along the way<\/a>\n\n\n<ul><li>\n<a href=\"#other-reading\">Other Reading<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, when i created this page i started by calling it &#8220;Good Managers&#8221; but i like the term &#8220;Great Managers&#8221; better.<\/p>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"borrowing-an-abbreviation-from-one-of-my-managers-and-adding-my-own-twist\">Borrowing an Abbreviation from one of my Managers and adding my own twist.<\/h1>\n\n\n<p><strong>V.V.P.S.T<\/strong> ( Visible, Vocal , Positive, Safe and Trusted)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be <strong>V<\/strong>isible<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be <strong>V<\/strong>ocal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be <strong>P<\/strong>ositive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make people feel <strong>S<\/strong>afe and <strong>T<\/strong>rusted (see the above You Tube Video by Simon Sinek)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-few-additions-i-have-learnt-along-the-way\">A few Additions i have learnt along the way<\/h1>\n\n\n<p><strong>small things<\/strong> &#8211; give people recognition tell them well done, sometimes small things can be very powerful one that sticks in my mind was turning up to shift work on Xmas Eve on my own covering 3 datacenters and monitoring 100 of computer systems to find by boss had left be a  2\u00a3 Xmas selection box<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>really listen <\/strong>and <strong>take an interest<\/strong> in people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>understand<\/strong> what makes different people tick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>don\u2019t let other people pass their problem on their back to you, empower colleagues to make their own decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"other-reading\">Other Reading<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>See all the other posts in the <a href=\"http:\/\/tech-musing.com\/category\/management\/\">management<\/a> category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from Interestingly, when i created this page i started by calling it &#8220;Good Managers&#8221; but i like the term &#8220;Great Managers&#8221; better. Borrowing an Abbreviation from one of my Managers and adding my own twist. V.V.P.S.T ( Visible, Vocal , Positive, Safe and Trusted) Be Visible Be Vocal Be Positive Make people feel Safe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-simon-sinek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-musing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}