Rules 46 Learn From Your Mistakes

"Being a manager is an ongoing learning experience."

1. We all make mistakes - we wouldn't be the wonderfully creative, innovative managers we are if we didn't.
2. But some managers gloss over any mistakes they make. They cover them, bury them, forget abput them.
3. As a brilliant manager, won't do that.
4. You won't beat yourself up over them. nor sit in a pit of misery over them but you will analyze what went wrong, discuss witg colleagus why it went wrong and make a plan to prevent it from going wrong again.
5. One mistakes could be anything from a badly handled appraisal. alost sale, a badly thought report. a poor use of time or resources, a failure to meet a deadline - when you start to write down how much many failures there could be the list is endless.
6. Once you make mistakes the important thing to do as well as the above is to find out the right way to do it next time.
7. Being a manager is an ongoing learning experience.
8. You never stand still and you never think you know it all - you don't and can't.
9. But you can have trusted people to ask and good reference books to hand to guide you - especially if they are short, sharp, snappy and practical.
10. Mistakes are brilliant because they not only teach us where we went wrong but also how to fit it.
11. If you are a better manager, more experienced, have a wider spectrum to call on when you've made a few errors.
12. We all make mistakes - admit them, learn from them and move on.