In a Mashable article, Ian McAllister, general manager at Amazon, discusses the most common mistakes that new managers make.
Here are the 20 mistakes:
1. Being slow to deal with performance issues.
2. Not documenting poor performance.
3. Not documenting good performance.
4. Not getting to know your employees.
5. Not paying attention to your high-performing employees.
6. Not investing in employee development.
7. Thinking too small.
8. Not explicitly allocating resources.
9. Poor delivery of unpopular decisions.
10. Being slow to resolve team pain points.
11. Not investing in sourcing new candidates.
12. Acting slowly in recruitment.
13. Sourcing and recruiting reactively.
14. Being unclear on role requirements when hiring.
15. Lowering their standards.
16. Letting other managers carve out chunks of their resources.
17. Letting the team get swamped.
18. Taking the credit.
19. Forwarding the blame.
20. Not anticipating how the needs of the team are going to change over time.
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