10 Mistakes Managers Make! You Should Avoid Them

Although managers are not the only players in any company; yet, their work, behavior, attitude, and mistakes impact all the details within the company, from the employees, other managers, and sub-managers, to even the success of the company.

Despite the fact that mistakes are part of the growth process; however, managers should do their best by studying, analyzing, and learning from others’ mistakes to avoid, and become the manager everyone looks up to.

In this blog, we are going to discuss with you employee management, management mistakes based on the personal and the business level. 

What is Employee Management?

Employee management is the process of helping, supervising, and managing all the work done by the team to guarantee the best outcomes and results.

Employee management is a part of the managers’ tips and tricks that not only empower the workflow but also set a great workplace culture in which employees and businesses thrive.

That is why employee management is important and plays a big role in achieving results, meeting the company goals, projects’ deadlines, and future expectations.

How Do Management Mistakes Impact the Workplace?

Yes, we know mistakes will happen no matter what cautions you take; however, not all mistakes are the same, and the mistakes managers make, especially the big ones, will affect everything.

Starting from the workplace morals, as employees will not feel attached or loyal to the workplace and do their best; on the other hand, projects, deadlines, and financial reports will have negative outcomes despite all the done hard work from the rest of the team.

10 Big Mistakes Managers Make:

It is time to talk about the most common mistakes done by managers, and from our experience we believe that these management mistakes could and will impact the business on a personal and business level:

The Personal Level Mistakes:

In 2022 we can say that personal level management mistakes are one of the biggest turns over reasons, as people would handle bad work circumstances, or even low payment rates when they have a positive working environment that empowers them.

1. Avoid Communication:

A manager who will not communicate with his/her team will not know them, what are their strong and weak points, how they function, and what are their work-related issues and concerns; moreover, this not communicating situation will make it harder to do effective brainstorming, find out about and solve small businesses errors before getting bigger, and even to solve and respond to an employee mistake without any side effect.

2. Play Favorites:

As humans we like to sit and have fun with someone more than others; however, that is in your personal life; thus, as a manager you should equally treat all your team members, and evaluate them based on their done work and accomplishment.

More than that, you should avoid overtasking one employee and having him/her do overtime, even if you trust his/her work, while the rest of the team is relaxing; so, equally tasking should be a stable rule in your company; whether, you have an in-house or in-office working team.

3. Not Being Honest:

A big managers’ mistake, is not sharing full information with a transparent culture will lead to a lot of problems as employees will not trust their manager or leader, and will not contact him/her when they face problems; moreover, act on their own based on their incomplete information.

On the other hand, this will lead to lower employees’ loyalty to the company.

4. Disagree Just for Disagreeing:

In other words, some managers use this bossy way just to say that they have the upper hand and can make the decision they want, which will impact the employees’ engagement and participation with solutions and options that would empower the company and cause amazing results; thus, you must avoid this by being open-minded and willing to hear others.

5. Fail to Act:

When your employees need you as a manager; whether with a work-related situation or a personal one, they expect you to act and hold up to your responsibilities, especially if a mistake happens, they will expect you to protect them and have their back instead of throwing them under the bus to clear your name, which will cause them to lose faith in you.

Business Level Mistakes:

There are some business management mistakes, that not only affect the working environment and employees’ satisfaction, but also the workflow results, goals achievements, and revenue which will finally impact the company’s ability to continue and thrive in the business world:

6. Ignore Salaries Raises and Overtime Payment:

If you want your employees to stay, then you need to offer advantages and that includes financial security and payment raises, and if you do not offer that or at least set a clear financial structure then you could lose your best employees.

On the other hand, asking employees to do overtime without extra payment will send a message that you do not respect their time.

7. Share Unclear Work Goals and Structure:

If you want to build a highly effective team then you need to share a clear working structure with them; so, they would know what are they doing; moreover, give you good results.

On the other hand, one type of mistake managers make also includes sharing a work structure but a messy one where no one can find and know what they have to do and when.

8. Rumple Work Documents:

Unorganized work documents are worse than having no documents at all, and this is, unfortunately, a mistake done by many managers as they consider the business organizing process not part of their responsibilities.

When having unorganized documents then you will have a lot of employees’ time wasting, just to find the needed document; moreover, a lot of important paper could be lost.

9. Micromanaging Tasks:

A management mistake that is most likely done by bossy managers as they focus on the little details rather than focusing on the result an employee is offering; so, if you as a manager have an employee who works in a different approach you should focus on the results and his/her workplace morals rather than focusing on making this team member work technique in the same way as you do; in other words, accept differences.

10. Use Outdated Techniques and Data:

A powerful manager who is looking for results should work with recent data and techniques to achieve results and develop the working techniques and teams.

As working with old data is a mistake done by many managers who by time fail their organization and team over their outdated results.

Fatal Management Mistakes Examples:

Now, to make the idea of management mistakes and their impacts on your work clearer, let us introduce to you worldwide experiences about mistakes managers made:

· Nokia:

The famous mobile phone brand who was dominating this world till 2007; however, in 2013 Nokia failed due to many management mistakes, lack of engagement, and work developing vision.

· Mercedes:

In the 2022 formula one, the luxurious car company decided not to add the side pods to their cars, which led to losing their holding of the 1^st spot after 2 years of winning due to a bad management decision.

· Blockbuster:

The well-known video games and movie store refused to go online with a streaming service and lost the movie market to Netflix due to that management mistake.

Finally,

Mistakes managers make are imperative; yet avoiding the fatal mistakes is totally in your hands with deep research and knowledge, positive company culture, and powerful team collaboration.

Contact us to help you build the team of your dreams.