How Can A Professional Manager Who Is Not Suitable For Management Be Positioned?

What a "Besieged City"!

A manager who considers himself unsuitable for management.

Wei Bo (a pseudonym), 33 years old.

At the first sight of Wei Bo, I said in my heart, "this man is so stubborn! This instinct is very strong.

His polite smile, firm eyes and tightly closed mouth made me feel like this at once.

The company he serves is a subordinate unit of the government department, and he has been here for ten years after graduation.

At first, it was the most basic technical personnel, eager to learn, considerate and low-key, so colleagues liked leadership appreciation.

These ten years are very smooth. Five years have been promoted to technology executives. Two years ago, they became managers of R & D departments.

In terms of social standards, he can be described as "young and promising". But recently, Wei Bo has found that his working condition is very bad. Although he works hard, some things are not doing enough.

Think of the way you used to do technology.

Is it simply not suitable for management to do technology? It can be purely technical and sometimes boring.

Technology or management? What exactly do I want to do? This problem suddenly appeared in front of him after ten years of accumulation.

Wei Bo said: the pressure is really too big! Sometimes it will be irritable without any reason. Several times, I almost offended several working partners.

Some people even say that I am very old now, so my temper has changed. My superiors often show their dissatisfaction and say that I have not been working hard recently! What a mistake! I wonder if I am not competent enough? Or is there a psychological problem? The occupational disease of the manager - pressure!

Consultant analysis: in fact, such a situation is not uncommon.

Generally speaking, there are many reasons for this situation: lack of ability to work for the job, too much work pressure, too high self requirements, too much care about the results, too much work intensity, and boredom for work.

After further exchanges with Weber, we find that his problem is the conflict between personal values and "game planning".

He is very concerned about the harmony of his colleagues, and he never wants to argue with others. But the interests of the team often ask him to rush out to say something. He gets along well with his subordinates, but his relationship with his boss seems to be disagreed with many of his superiors.

In the end, before you do things, you always struggle and struggle, hesitate in doing it.

Of course not.

He has always been very demanding of himself, and these unsuccessful results make him suspicious of himself.

But he can not change the status quo, so there is the present situation.

Vicious spiral.

This is not a matter of ability, not mental illness.

Wei Bo asked: how to improve career maturity?

Consultant analysis: first of all, not seeking fame and wealth is a rare grace, but one.

Wei Bo asked: This is indeed one of my weaknesses.

But on the other hand, I think, the technology has been doing well, and now management is doing so badly.

Is it not suitable for me to manage? How should I judge?

Consultant analysis: which is more suitable for technology and management? It is mainly affected by three factors - 1, personal characteristics.

Personal interest orientation, motivation mechanism, work style and way of thinking really play a decisive role in his career direction; 2, the external environment.

Different industries, different enterprises and different management positions require different personal requirements; 3, personal values.

Different values lead us to make different choices. Many things do not depend on what we can do, but on what we want to do.

Wei Bo asked, "so, what am I going to do?

Wei Bo's career orientation:

Future career direction -- project management.

As far as Weber's situation is concerned, he has some outstanding characteristics, such as pragmatism, results and pursuit of achievement.

It is not suitable for him to do only technical and pure management.

Combined with his own resources and accumulation, project management is undoubtedly the most appropriate.

Development proposals -- first of all, accumulate core competitiveness and map out changes.

This is not the time to change.

Now the unit can give him a higher perspective. Wei Bo's managerial role and technical strength give him the opportunity to take the lead in several major projects.

If he uses the current platform to win more good projects and accumulate project experience, it will undoubtedly greatly enhance his core competitiveness.

Coupled with my good foreign language proficiency, I can join a large or multinational company in the same industry for project management when I have the opportunity.

Two suggestions for Wei Bo:

1, improve the degree of career maturity, and distinguish the individual values from the "game rules" in reality.

2, with the help of projects that are now well done by the platform, we will accumulate contacts and seek opportunities to enter large enterprises or multinational enterprises to do project management when resources are mature.

Epilogue: after consulting, Wei Bo seemed very relaxed. He said, "I understand that freedom has the power to realize dreams.

Now, when I have a great platform and enjoy its benefits, I must accept both the challenges and even the torments it brings.

In the future, there is really a difficult road to go. It is not easy to change habits and ideas.

But it doesn't matter. I already know what to do.

Now I have confidence in my career prospects.

Expert Proverbs: in the workplace, we need to distinguish individual values from game planning. When two conflicts occur, one desirable attitude is to take the rules of the game in the short term and to listen to the inner value in the long run.