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Better Outcomes for you and Your Team: DECLG Senior Managers’ Conference

Better Outcomes for you and Your Team: DECLG Senior Managers’ Conference. Marian Quinn, CEO, Childhood Development Initiative October 4 th , 2103. How do we learn and develop?. What Helps us to Take on Responsibility?. Being motivated – having clear goals

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Better Outcomes for you and Your Team: DECLG Senior Managers’ Conference

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  1. Better Outcomes for you and Your Team:DECLG Senior Managers’ Conference Marian Quinn, CEO, Childhood Development Initiative October 4th, 2103

  2. How do we learn and develop?

  3. What Helps us to Take on Responsibility? • Being motivated – having clear goals • Having responsibility, autonomy, something to own • Knowing its OK to ask for help • Owning what's expected of me • Having the support, training and resources to do the job.

  4. How do we get the best from our team? • Formal approaches: • Supervision • Communication • Invest in team building opportunities • Structures for participation, consultation, shared thinking • Identyfing teams within teams. • Informal relationship aspects: • Get to know each other, not just the role • Have fun • Create a positive atmosphere • Have a place where people can be heard.

  5. ‘There’s only one thing more contagious than a good attitude, and that’s a bad attitude’ John Maxwell

  6. Management Strategies: • Be a leader – create a vision, a direction or goal: set the tone • Give feedback immediately – positive and negative: nip things in the bud • Publicly acknowledge achievements and good work • Take calculated risks in delegating • Name the elephant and be clear what’s acceptable and expected • Balance ‘hand holding’ with accountability and responsibility: scrutiny and support • Delegate the responsibility, not just the task • Recognise that nurturing staff is your responsibility.

  7. Quality Services, Better Outcomes: • Get a good fit between the skills and competencies of your staff and the job they are tasked to do • Mentor staff • Be a positive role model.

  8. How We View Our Staff:

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  10. What Stops us Being Good Managers? • Its quicker to do it myself • We tried that and it didn’t work • They aren't interested anyway • I'm the boss • I haven't got the time • Its not how we do it here • That’s all very well, but you don’t know how unique this place is.

  11. ‘Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies’ Gore Vidal, 1973

  12. Some next steps? • Identify what you’re doing well: do it more and better! • Reflect on your anxieties and concerns: test them for validity • Engage your team in being creative and finding solutions – (e.g. De Bono's thinking hats) • Challenge yourself to take calculated risks – be clear about how mistakes will be managed.

  13. ‘Go on failing. Go on, Only next time, try to fail better.’ Samuel Beckett

  14. Contact us: info@twcdi.ie marian@twcdi.ie http://www.twcdi.ie http://twitter.com/twcdi www.facebook.com/childhooddevelopmentinitiative

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