9 Questions Great Bosses Ask Themselves

<p>How do you get better as a manager? You can use feedback from your manager, inputs from your team, and outcomes you achieve as a measure of your performance, but by themselves, they do not help you get better.</p> <p>Without a system in place to measure yourself and actively monitor how you&rsquo;re doing, you cannot determine areas that need your attention and the steps you must take to improve.</p> <p>Every day, multiple things vie for your attention, and you make hundreds of decisions, some good and some bad. Some consciously and others subconsciously.</p> <p><em>Do you take time to analyze your decisions?</em></p> <p><em>Are you aware of what gets your attention?</em></p> <p><em>With so much feedback around you (both direct and indirect), how do you separate signal from noise?</em></p> <p>I see two problems why most managers are not able to improve:</p> <ol> <li>Unable to ask yourself the right questions</li> <li>Lacking&nbsp;<a href="https://www.techtello.com/confident-humility-in-leadership/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">humility</a>&nbsp;to be truthful</li> </ol> <p>You aren&rsquo;t asking the right questions if those questions don&rsquo;t make you uncomfortable. Avoiding tough questions keeps you within your comfort zone, but your growth is often one step outside it.</p> <p>Humility to speak the truth and stay honest is another hard thing. Blaming someone or something else helps you avoid the reality of how you&rsquo;re doing. Without the willingness to acknowledge your imperfections and accept you&rsquo;re a work in progress, you can never improve. Your truth is often a version of your story, a story that suits you and makes you feel good. Humility requires questioning it.</p> <p><a href="https://betterprogramming.pub/9-questions-great-bosses-ask-themselves-140d848e8368"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>