Who doesn’t want maximum efficiency with maximum happiness? Discover why leaders need to learn management 3.0 to build an amazing working environment.

Are you among the nearly 75% of Americans that consider themselves lifelong learners?

If you do and are in a leadership position in a company, then it may be time to learn Management 3.0 and see how it can impact your business. This management system is unlike any other and can help you drive results.

Keep reading to learn all about Management 3.0 and how it can help you create a company culture that increases productivity and happiness.

What is Management 3.0?

Management 3.0 focuses on building a system and culture that puts the responsibility of the company’s success onto all of the individual workers rather than leadership alone.

The goal is to think of your company and everybody that comes into contact with it as a community. Only when all of the members work together towards a common goal can your company truly thrive.

Here are the principles that drive the Management 3.0 system:

• Engage everybody (employees, clients, vendors, etc.)
• Manage the system rather than the people within it
• Make everybody involved happy and more productive

When these are put together, you gain a number of unique benefits over the other management styles.

Benefits of Learning Management 3.0

Let’s dig into some of the benefits of learning this management system so you can fully understand why you would want to learn it.

Improve Employee Happiness

Happy employees tend to stay with the company longer and work harder. They’re also more likely to share their positive experiences with others which can help improve your company’s reputation.

For employees to be happy, they need to be given a purpose. That’s one of the main goals of Management 3.0 is to provide leadership opportunities to every team member, giving them a greater sense of purpose and ownership.

Boost Employee Productivity

A natural side effect of happy employees that have a sense of purpose is they’ll be more productive. When they feel the success of the company depends on them, employees are more likely to come in early and stay late to accomplish their goals.

They will also see your company goals as important to them as individuals and find ways to do what they can to ensure they’re reached. This is part of the community mindset that drives the idea that everybody wins when they work together.

Create Better Company Culture

One of the main focuses of Management 3.0 is the overall system you have in place at your company. Rather than manage all of your employees individually, you create a culture that drives changes in your employees.

This is particularly helpful when bringing in new people. Rather than needing to train each newcomer from the ground up, you can usher them into your existing system and let it work for you.

Keep Your Business Cutting-edge

Today, technology is moving fast. It can be difficult to keep up with everything and ensure your business is a leader in your industry. However, doing so is an important part of ensuring the continued success of your company.

Management 3.0 helps drive innovation in your business. This is because of the culture it creates that encourages creativity in every team member. With everyone being allowed to share ideas, it can prevent great concepts from falling through the cracks or being hampered by poor leaders.

Increase Company Agility

Because of how fast the world moves today, it’s essential to keep your business agile. You need to be ready to change your strategies at the drop of a hat. If your company can’t move quickly enough, you risk being left behind.

This concept couldn’t have been more clearly demonstrated during the coronavirus pandemic. It turned countless office-based businesses into a community of remote workers.

Management 3.0 is designed to deal with these changes with relative ease. It allows you to adapt quickly because the overall culture continues to put the responsibility on all employees.

An employee working from home under a Management 3.0 system can continue to push themselves to work hard because they’re already self-motivated rather than only putting in effort when there’s a manager standing over their shoulder.

How to Learn Management 3.0

There are two basic ways you can learn Management 3.0. Let’s take a closer look at each of these so you can see why we believe it’s so important to get training if you want the best results.

Self-teaching

There is a plethora of information available online that can help you learn how to be a better manager. In fact, you could probably find everything you need to learn Management 3.0 for free.

However, there’s no telling how long it would take you to gather all of that information or how much information would be repeated before you got everything you need to know.

When learning something as involved as a management style, it’s essential that you have reliable information and that you get everything neatly organized in one package. This saves you a significant amount of time and ensures you get every point.

Training Courses

Management 3.0 training courses will save you so much time that they’re more than worth the investment. They have everything you need to learn and won’t repeat information plus it’s easy to go back and find specific points as needed.

Another benefit of training courses is they’re put together by industry experts. It can be hard to verify the information you find online whereas you can rest assured that everything in your training course will be legitimate and helpful information.

You can also get additional bonuses with your training course and have access to your instructor so you can ask specific questions. This is essential to ensure you get actionable advice that works for your industry and company.

Get the Training You Need to Be a Better Manager

Now you know why you need to learn Management 3.0. As you can see, there are numerous benefits you can reap from incorporating this management style in your company.

Are you ready to get the training you need to learn Management 3.0 and start being the best manager you can be? If so, check out our training courses so you can find the one that’s best for you.

Will COVID-19 reveal how good leaders are?  The answer is obvious: IT IS RIGHT NOW!  Unfortunately, the pandemic was something most of us didn’t see coming.  The question is, do you, as a leader, think so as well?  If you agree with me, how are you preparing for the rest of this pandemic?  What are your leaders’ next steps?

Where are we?

Most of us were blindsided by COVID-19.  Since March, we have moved our office to the kitchen table, taken over daycare for our children, and spent more time with our immediate families than we ever wanted.

We’ve checked the box on Safety by having folks move their work setting from the office to their home.  We have conquered challenges that prevented us from working, allowing us to settle into the New Normal.  The natural tendency is for us to pause, take a breath, pat each other on the back (at a safe distance of course), and celebrate that we got through it together.  Based on the prognosticators in the media, the New Normal could continue in varying degrees over the next year or so.

Now that organizations are starting to stabilize, leaders need to start considering how to align their organization to the New Normal.

As our teammates are getting into a routine, the new challenge is much harder:  How do we lead in this environment?

Organizations have never been faced with this type of disaster before.  We’ve been through disasters that have resulted in significant hardship and loss.  In my lifetime, terrorist attacks and market crashes seem to have become events that, while shocking, have tested strategies.  While each event leaves its mark, lessons, for the most part, have been learned.  What makes the COVID-19 pandemic different is that there is a significant loss of life, difficult economic and financial impacts combined with a forced change to working remotely.

While the change to remote work pales in comparison to the constant loss of life or unemployment, it can have long lasting impacts that will dramatically serve as impediments or accelerants to your organization.

In a survey conducted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, “44 percent of managers say they lack training and feel overwhelmed at work.”  My guess is those numbers are much higher now.  Leaders are being tested under fire with little or no management training.  What’s more, 42% of new managers admit they developed their style by observing and mimicking a previous manager.

Scary thought, isn’t it?  42% of our leaders are taking their next steps from a previous manager who hasn’t been trained.

Leaders Next Steps

As a leader who has survived the transition to working remotely, what should your next steps bet?  Here are four areas for you to focus:

Put Trust Front and Center – Leading remote workers requires leaders to trust their teammates.  Trusting your teammates isn’t optional anymore.  You’re not in the same physical environment anymore.  You can’t just glance over or stop by and chat.  It takes effort to connect when working remotely, so it happens less often.

Embrace Servant Leadership – Now so more than ever, leaders need to embrace servant leadership.  With all the issues that our teammates have faced and solved, small impediments can grow exponentially fueled by pent up emotions from personal and professional life.  Removing impediments keeps your teammates engaged and appreciative as well as increasing focus.  As a leader, your greatest opportunity is not in what you personally accomplish, but instead is a sum of what your teammates get accomplished.

Gather Data – This is a hard one.  Try thinking differently.  Rather than hours worked, focus on metrics related to the process and the system, not the individual.  Cycle Time, Lead Time, and Throughput are process metrics that might make sense.  Managers should consider looking at team health, employee engagement, Predictive Index, DISC, Parin (EQ), DISC, and 16 Behaviors.  Your teammates may have been perfect employees pre-COVID-19.  They have been thrust into a new environment that they may not be prepared for.  The more data you have, the more informed your actions can be.

Be Present – As easy as it might be to just hunker down, don’t!  Set up recurring one-on-one meetings, team meetings, and project meetings as you did when you worked in the office.  When in meetings, set the example by keeping your video on and actively participating.  If others aren’t present consistently, connect individually to re-establish that connection.  Many times, your teammates are mirroring your behavior.  They are watching what you are doing.  If you’re not engaged, others start to believe that is the accepted norm.

There’s a lot more that we could look at, but these four areas of focus are the foundation that great teams and organizations are built on.

There is hope.

For the last 10 years, the business has been growing, and organizations haven’t had a reason to change.  With COVID-19, leaders and employees need to acknowledge that change has occurred whether they like it or not.  Organizations should be considering the next actionable steps of their leaders that are critical for their survival and for their future to achieve optimal efficiencies that can propel the business for the economic boom that is sure to come.

An obvious next step is for managers to get consistent training on a regular cadence.  The training should be based on theoretical concepts with practical ways of application.

Check out our Management 3.0 training.  It’s a great place to start.

STAY SAFE AND WASH THOSE HANDS!

Chris