A great manager needs to get a deep knowledge of their strengths, values, comfort zones, blind spots, and biases. If you don't know how to manage yourself, you won't have a good handle on how to best support your team.

Questions to help you understand yourself:

Feedback is a powerful tool to help your team grow.

• Ensure that feedback is specific and actionable.
• Clarify what success looks and feels like. 
• The next steps. Instead of suggesting the next steps, empower your team to learn on their own. Ask what they think the next s...

All the tasks that a manager has to do can be put into one of three categories:

1. Purpose - the outcome your team is trying to accomplish. It is also known as the why. Your job as a manager is to ensure your team knows what success looks like and care about achi...

Management is the belief that you don't have to do everything yourself or even know how to do everything. 

All managers share a common purpose - that of helping a group of people achieve a common goal.

The job of a manager:

• Bu...

Good meetings have an ideal outcome, not just a purpose. 

• Decision-making meetings should get a decision made, include the stakeholders, present options or recommendations, and allow for dissenting opinions.
• Informal meetings should make partic...