"Personnel management", 2013, N 1

The ability to set clear practical goals and objectives is one of the main basic competencies of an effective top manager, but, as practice shows, the goal setting stage is difficult for many managers.

And before talking about mistakes, I would like to once again pay attention to one of the most common, simple and effective ways of setting goals - using the S.M.A.R.T. In accordance with this system, the goals should be:

S (Specific)- specific

M (measured)- measurable

A (Achievable)- achievable

R (result-oriented)- results oriented

T (Timed)- time limited.

Specific goals (S) - the goal should be clearly stated. Otherwise, in the end, a result different from the planned one may be achieved.

Measurable goals (M) - if the goal does not have any measurable parameters, then it is impossible to determine whether the result has been achieved.

Achievable Goals (A) - Goals are used as an incentive to achieve some goals and thus move forward through success. You do not need to set goals that, on the contrary, would lead to an increase in stress in your life. It is enough to set challenging goals that involve effort, but at the same time keep in mind that they must be achievable.

Results-Oriented Objectives (R) - Objectives should be characterized in terms of output rather than work being done. This is how efficiency is achieved. You can set a goal to come to work an hour earlier, but if you don’t define the expected result, then this hour can be spent drinking coffee or just chatting.

Limited in time (T) - any goal must be feasible in a certain time dimension.

Even the Roman orator Mark Annei Seneca (c. 55 BC - c. 37 BC) said: "Each person tends to err, but no one, except a fool, tends to persist in error." Strange as it may seem, but leaders make basically the same mistakes, which at some point turns into excessive dependence on the system. To avoid such a systematic dependence, we highlight the main mistakes of managers in setting goals and objectives.

Effective execution starts with setting clear goals. It has long been noted that when information is transmitted, its meaning is often distorted, since the same set of information is perceived differently by different people.

The root of misunderstanding (when, it would seem, the obvious is not fulfilled or ignored) between the leader and subordinates lies precisely in the inability of people to equally evaluate the same situation. This leads to a significant distortion of the final result compared to the desired one. It is also worth noting that a correctly set goal should reflect movement towards the desired result, and not the desire to run away from the problem. for example If the goal is formulated as "to reduce the number of complaints", then a large number of prohibitions arise here, which often hampers the initiative of employees. As a result, they are afraid to act, so as not to incur the wrath of the leader. Therefore, it is desirable to rephrase the goal as follows: "improve the quality of products." In this interpretation, the goal is more understandable, accessible to subordinates and implies active actions.

One of the main competencies of a leader is the ability to delegate authority. However, some managers, instead of assigning a task to a subordinate, perform it themselves, justifying this by saying that it takes too long to explain, they will still be mistaken, it is too responsible and difficult, etc. Such top managers either do not know how or do not want to delegate authority to their subordinates, which leads to the fact that the manager literally drowns in routine work, becomes "blind" and does not have the opportunity to look at himself and his subordinates from the outside, to properly organize the work process. A project that at first glance seems overwhelming is quite manageable if it is distributed among different employees. In addition, the distribution of work creates an opportunity for the development of leadership skills.

Choice of performers. Tasks should not be assigned to employees who, due to low qualifications, insufficient experience, or a heavy load at the moment with other work, cannot complete this task.

Everyone must be responsible for their own work. First of all, it is necessary to establish elementary order, delineate functions, determine the powers and responsibilities of employees. If two or more performers do the same thing together, expect failure, they will rely on each other and will not do it.

When choosing performers, it is also necessary to pay attention to the relationship between employees and managers, they can be too subjective and interfere with the choice. Due to some prejudice, the choice may fall "on the wrong one." Prejudice can have a positive or negative effect. Or some of the employees may be "holy". There are also contrasts, comparisons of employees or their achievements, stereotypes that have developed in relation to employees or, conversely, the first impression of an employee. As a rule, the first impression is formed during the selection of personnel. The leader must be able to weed out "unnecessary" personnel during the interview. Each employee must correspond to the position held. A French proverb says: "If someone is stupid, then it is for a long time." Professionals should work with us, and let everyone else go to competitors!

Deadlines matter a lot in setting a goal, the employee must clearly understand by what time the task must be completed. The deadline should be sufficient to complete the task, but no more than that, since the employee may have the opinion that there is still time and he can start the task later.

Lack of control and feedback between the leader and subordinates. The case is like a car: by itself it will only move downhill. (The commandment of American managers.)

Lack of control will undoubtedly lead to a negative result, since even those employees who have never made a mistake can make a mistake due to overconfidence. As for feedback, the subordinate should be given the opportunity to inform the manager about certain problems that arise at the stages of the task. As practice shows, subordinates rarely report a possible problem in advance, but put before the fact when nothing can be fixed. The reasons may be different: insufficient responsibility, short-sightedness, or simply fear of the leader. Quite often, a leader instills fear in subordinates so much that they shudder just at the thought that the leader will look askance at them, and there’s nothing to say about the fact that he will scold and punish them ... Therefore, it’s worth giving subordinates the opportunity to report on emerging problems.

If it is noticed that an employee deviates from the intended path when performing work, the manager must intervene and make a remark, while observing the following rules:

• respond to a subordinate's mistake as soon as it is noticed;
• make a remark in private;
• for one mistake to criticize only once;
• give the employee the opportunity to explain himself during the conversation;
• make a remark or reprimand only after checking the facts.

Mistakes occur when an employee is just gaining leadership experience. When you are an employee, you have a job that you are ultimately responsible for. When you become a manager, everything changes. Now you are responsible for the results of a group of people, and not just for yourself.

The position of a top manager requires the development of a number of new business skills - communication skills, management skills. Some of the most talented employees, from a technical point of view, became the worst managers because they were unable to make the transition from worker to manager.

Conversely, most senior leaders are accustomed to success, and initially they learned enough to continue to acquire skills. Successful managers must be able to find the best ways to get things done and achieve their goals. The business environment tends to change if the manager does not respond, does not adapt to changes and does not use changes to his advantage, that is, does not learn, as a result, the business process suffers.

One of the famous Roman historians, Titus of Livy, said: "The outcome of large cases often depends on small things." Therefore, when setting goals and objectives, it is necessary to take into account the level of the manager and the performer. It depends on how much it is worth concretizing tasks into subtasks. If we have a recently hired employee without work experience, of course, unlike a qualified employee, we will have to bring the algorithm of actions in more detail to him so that he does not mess things up at the beginning of his career. But if we are talking about an experienced performer, then excessive detailing of goal setting is not needed, since we risk subsequently getting unthinking and uninitiative staff. The best way to create conditions is when employees themselves find solutions by being involved in the process. A manager who is interested in improving the performance of his subordinates should pay attention to this. The main thing here is to install feedback and process control. It is necessary to control subordinates, but not all subordinates understand this correctly. Many employees see control as a manager's doubt about their professionalism. How to be in such a situation? If, when setting a task, the manager immediately sets the deadlines for checkpoints and the format of the report, for example, from 9.00 to 9.20, every working day the employee in the manager’s office reports on the work done, then in this case the employee will take it much calmer than regular pulling out of the work process or just repeated questions when meeting in the corridor between the offices, several times a day. In such a situation, even the most seasoned employee will begin to get nervous, which will certainly affect his work and, most likely, not for the better.

Achieving the goals and objectives of the company is inextricably linked with the interaction of employees, who are often located in different departments and, quite likely, are subordinate to different structural top managers. As a result, we, for example, get such a situation.

The general manager (director) sets a particular task for top managers in areas (deputies), dividing it into subtasks based on the direction (production, finance, etc.), line managers, respectively, set subtasks for their subordinates and etc. Such interactions lead to the need for communication between employees and departments. Today's organizations are too dependent on the wide dissemination of information throughout the organization. Failure to make contact employees of different departments also affects the final result of the task or goal. In many organizations, most employees have no idea what's going on. Divisions exist in isolation from each other. Some managers shy away from social situations and naturally avoid communicating with their employees, especially when the message is in some way negative. Others simply don't make the effort to pass on information on an ongoing basis, allowing themselves to selectively "forget" to communicate to their employees. So the most "knowledgeable" are the most valuable employees in the organization.

Steven Jobs fired those who doubted that the task was real. Perhaps the Jobs method is rather soulless, but still worthy of attention, since Jobs still managed to gather a team of talented designers and managers under the roof of Apple. And in the end we have a computer, a mouse, an iPhone, and so on. As soon as an employee begins to say that the task is unrealistic, or tries to find a way not to complete it, it is necessary to understand in time that he has given up. Continuing to work with people who do not believe in what they are doing will also interfere with the implementation of the global goals.

In goal setting, staff motivation is always painstaking, employee-oriented work. The responsibility of an employee is inextricably linked with his motivation for the work performed. Responsibility rarely appears if the employee is not interested in the tasks of the leader. The skills of a leader to arouse a desire in an employee to carry out assignments or, in other words, to motivate responsibility, is what every leader should have. And only if the leader is able to achieve the necessary motivation, we can talk about his ability to form the responsibility of the employee. It is harmful when praise is given too often, it devalues ​​praise and accustoms to cheap success. It is doubly harmful to praise someone to whom something comes easily, it reduces the motivation to work.

There are a sufficient number of companies in the world that do not punish their employees, but only motivate them, but this system becomes very doubtful if the employee’s work is tied to a specific plan, where one or another penalty should follow for failure to fulfill the plan. Or vice versa, in the company they only punish, not encourage. Each employee in this case will strive to fulfill their duties by 100%, and not by 110% or 115%. What for? It's still no one appreciates. In any case, the punishment must be adequate and fair. When employed, any person assumes the obligation to properly perform their functions, follow the work schedule, follow the corporate culture, etc. It is best to immediately notify the employee about the system of fines for certain offenses so that the punishment does not come as a surprise to him. It should also be remembered that thoughtless fines or harsh remarks can completely discourage the desire to work efficiently and earn money honestly. The negative environment in the team, where everyone is afraid of the wrath of the boss, contributes to the occurrence of errors, followed by new punishment.

Therefore, it would be more correct to build a system of employee motivation, where each employee will know for what he will be given a bonus, and for what he will be punished. The employer can increase the efficiency of the work of the team with the help of awards, thanks and encouragement. A person should hold on to his position and be afraid of losing his place of work. The fear of losing all this at once will be more effective than any fine. For all the time, probably, no one has come up with anything more effective than the carrot and stick method.

There is another very important point in the workflow, which many do not think about, but it is of great importance. Regardless of the weight of responsibility that top managers carry on their shoulders, they must retain a sense of humor and the ability to create a creative, work environment. Work for employees of any level should be a source of pleasure, joy and optimism.

We always say that it is better to learn from the mistakes of others than from our own, but nevertheless, from our mistakes we more often draw the right conclusions and remember them better. Of course, most of what was said above is verified by personal experience. There are no people who were born great specialists and leaders, they became such through long work, trial and error. Everything comes with time, and you have to learn all the time. The development of the company and reaching another level begins with personnel management, because any changes are created by people.

Thomas Alva Edison once said, "I didn't fail. I just found 1,000 ways that didn't work."

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The words of the ancient Roman orator Mark Seneca (c. 55 BC - c. 37 AD) - "Errare humanum est" (To err is human, lat.).

Later, the ancient Roman politician and orator (106 - 43 BC) supplemented this phrase -

Examples

Demin Alexander Vasilievich

"Principle of certainty of taxation: monograph" M.: Statut, 2015: "In the end errare humanum est - it is human to err. Tax legal formation as a product of the conscious-volitional activity of people is not free from human errors, delusions, emotions, lobbying, voluntarism, etc."

(1925 - 1991), (1933 - 2012)

"It's Hard to Be God" (1963), ch. 7:" People tend to make mistakes. Maybe I'm wrong and I'm not striving for the goal for which it would be worth working as diligently and disinterestedly as I work.

(1564 - 1616)

"Othello", translated by B.L. Pasternak (1945) - lyrics by Iago

"People are just people.
They are fallible."

(1883 - 1923)

"The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik" (1923, translated by P.G. Bogatyrev (1893 - 1971)), part 1, ch. 3: “I think,” said Schweik, “that everything should be looked at impartially. Everyone can make a mistake, and if you think about something for a very long time, you will surely make a mistake. Doctors are also people, and people tend to make mistakes . Once in Nusli, just at the bridge over the Botich, when I was returning from the Banzet at night, a gentleman came up to me and grabbed me on the head with a rapper; I, of course, fell to the ground, and he illuminated me and said: "It's a mistake, it's not him!" Yes, this mistake angered him so much that he took it and hit me on the back again. So it is written in the human race - to make mistakes until death. Once there was such a case: one man found a half-frozen rabid dog at night, took him home with him and put him in bed with his wife. The dog warmed up, came to his senses and bit the whole family, and tore the smallest one in the cradle and ate it. Or I will give another example of how one turner from our house made a mistake. He unlocked the Podolsk church with a key, thinking that he had come home, took off his shoes in the sacristy, as he believed that he was in his kitchen, lay down on the throne, because he decided that he was at home in bed, covered himself with veils with sacred inscriptions, and put the gospel under his head and other sacred books to make it taller. In the morning the church watchman found him there, and our turner, when he came to his senses, good-naturedly told him that a mistake had happened to him. “Good mistake!” says the church watchman. “Because of such a mistake, we will have to consecrate the church again.” Then this turner appeared before the forensic doctors, and they proved to him that he was fully conscious and sober - they say, if he were drunk, he would not have hit the key in the keyhole. Then this turner died in Pankrats... Let me give you another example of how a police dog, a shepherd dog of the famous captain Rotter, made a mistake in Kladno. Captain Rotter trained dogs and trained them on vagrants until all vagrants began to bypass the Kladno region. Then Rotter ordered that the gendarmes, at least crack, bring some suspicious person. One day they brought to him a rather decently dressed man who was found in the Lana forests. He was sitting there on a stump. Rotter immediately ordered a piece of the floor to be cut off from his jacket and gave this piece a sniff to his bloodhounds. Then that man was taken to a brick factory outside the city and set in his footsteps by the same trained dogs that found him and brought him back. Then this man was told to climb the stairs to the attic, jump over the stone fence, throw himself into the pond, and the dogs were lowered after him. In the end, it turned out that this man was a radical deputy who went for a walk in the Lana forests when he was sick of sitting in parliament. That is why I say that all people tend to make mistakes, whether a scientist or an uneducated fool. And the ministers are wrong."

(1860 - 1904)

"" (1884): "Maybe. Humanum est errare (To err is human (lat.))- and investigators are imperfect: judicial errors are frequent under the moon. Do you think we are wrong?"

Letter to I. Ya. PAVLOVSKY April 28 (May 10), 1898 Paris - "I am enclosing the manuscript. Bernard Lazare himself, as it turns out, did not take advantage of our conversation and handed over the material to another linden, the same person wrote something that I cannot to tie your name in. The beginning is still nothing, but the middle and the end are not at all the same. We didn’t talk about Melin or anti-Semitism, didn’t talk about what humans tend to make mistakes(p. 4th); and the plan and aims of our conversation were quite different."

(1801 - 1872)

V. I. Dahl's stories about the times of Paul I (1870) - the story told by Dahl does not mention the expression, but illustrates its meaning well:

“My father served in Gatchina under Grand Prince Pavel Petrovich, left this place due to troubles, which he never told me about, but he led the prince, by the way, told me the following incident. In Gatchina there was one of the cavalry regiments, Major Freygang, due to some misunderstanding, was late for the divorce. suddenly fell like a sheaf to the ground. The Grand Duke demanded from the doctor, my father, twice a day, an oral report on the situation of the stricken man, and immediately called the recovered patient to him. Meeting him, giving him his hand affectionately and sitting him down, Grand Duke asked in German.

Humans tend to make mistakes

From Latin: Errare humnnum est [errare humapum est].

The words of the Roman rhetor (orator) Mark Annei Seneca the Elder (c. 55 BC - c. 37 AD). Not to be confused with the more famous Seneca, the Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, c. 4 BC e. - - 65 n. e.).

Encyclopedic Dictionary of winged words and expressions. - M.: "Lokid-Press". Vadim Serov. 2003 .

Humans tend to make mistakes

The prototype of this expression is found in the Greek poet Theognis, who lived 500 BC. e.; he expressed the idea that it is impossible to maintain close friendly relations with anyone if you are angry at every mistake of friends, "since mistakes are inevitable among mortals". In the future, this idea was repeated by the Greek poet Euripides (480-406 BC) in the tragedy "Hippolytus" - "all people tend to make mistakes"; in Cicero ("Philippi", 12, 5) - "Each person is prone to err, but no one, except a fool, tends to persist in error." The Roman rhetorician Marcus Annaeus Seneca (c. 55 BC - c. 37 BC) says: "to err is human." It is this formulation ("Errare humanum est" - "It is human nature to err") that has become widespread.

Dictionary of winged words. Plutex. 2004

See what "To err is human" in other dictionaries:

To err is a human thing. Wed Humans tend to make mistakes. Turgenev. Rudin. 3. Rudin. Wed I am human and as human I can make mistakes. Saltykov. Pompadours. 6, 2. Cf. Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt. Gothe. Faust. Prolog. Wed Irren ist… …

Humans tend to make mistakes- wing. sl. The prototype of this expression is found in the Greek poet Theognis, who lived 500 BC. e.; he expressed the idea that it is impossible to maintain close friendly relations with anyone if you are angry at every mistake of friends, “since mistakes ... ... Universal additional practical explanatory dictionary by I. Mostitsky

To err is human. To err is a human thing. Wed To err is human. Turgenev. Rudin. 3. Rudin. Wed I am a human being and, as a human being, I can make mistakes. Saltykov. Pompadours. 6, 2. Cf. Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt … Michelson's Big Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary (original spelling)

From Latin: Cujusvis hominis est errare, nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverare Literally: Every person is prone to err, but no one except ... ... Dictionary of winged words and expressions

Make mistakes, admit it. Wed You know, Count, it is much nobler to admit one's mistake than to bring matters to the point of being irreparable. Gr. L. Tolstoy. War and Peace. 2, 1, 4 (Duel). Wed Wisdom does not consist in never making mistakes, but in... ... Michelson's Big Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary

peculiar- see peculiar; in func. skaz. Humans tend to make mistakes … Dictionary of many expressions

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- (384 322 BC) a student of Plato, educator of Alexander the Great, founder of the Peripatetic school, from Stagira (Pov. Chalkidiki) Not so much decent as random people are always busy with election (for government posts). Virtue… … Consolidated encyclopedia of aphorisms

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Once or twice she wrote on emotions, and at the same time, from rage, her eyes turned red and dark. Sometimes I accidentally pressed enter and the text was sent before checking for errors. I know myself well: if the text is large, then I have to re-read it three times in order to find these errors - I often get distracted by the content. And as for especially stupid mistakes, it's all because of absent-mindedness.

But here it is, it happened. Yes, I sent a text with an error or several, I can’t edit it and beat my ears on my cheeks. What to do now? That's right, I'll go to some page and I will angrily condemn those who are mistaken. I studied Russian with a tutor! He got me to five! I… don't care who I am, what I am and who they are, these arrogant champions of literacy. Nothing that irritates all of our perfect ones. No, let them live, okay.

But swearing at other people's mistakes like that ... Is this another way to rise above others? Due to spelling? It would be stupid. But it has always been, even in the bible there is about looking out for motes in other people's eyes. No, it's really too stupid. Probably, all this anger is due to the fact that a significant part of the childhood was taken away from the poor fellows. The poor things really wanted to play with dolls / cars / prefix / gadgets, and their parents forced them to study. And then they swore again, monsters, that in Russian in a notebook 4, not 5. So what? No I do not think so. This is too Freudian. It’s much more interesting to consider it a hell of an injustice that they spend time checking their texts for flaws, google or quickly scour Rosenthal’s handbook, and the bulk of those who fill the Internet with their opinion, apparently, do not. One can understand our ideal writers if they consider errors in the text as a kind of sign of disrespect or impoliteness. Probably, these people do not swear. Me too. I just tend to be wrong. Imagine, literate, all living beings tend to err!

Revealed the truth, also to me.

And I check my texts for mistakes. If there are a lot of beeches, then I check with a Word, a reference book and images of bright faces of teachers in my memory. However… it happens. I may find that I have forgotten the rule I read to correct the previous text. My seven-year-old son can run up ten times in fifteen minutes with his delights or beg for a liter of tea not at all once in a carafe, by the way, and I can ignore the mistake. I can, it happens. There are also blunders))

But my mother writes without errors in Russian. However, she is not Russian. She says that she re-read everything that was in the village library as a child and is sure that her literacy is precisely from this. I also read a lot. The book was the first thing I did when I woke up, and the last thing I saw before going to bed, but the chip didn't work for me. What have I done and will do? Of course, work on yourself. But I will at some point. Because because of my special memory, I, an adult woman, open the same rules every year in order to seem to get to know them anew. Imagine how fun it is to learn the same thing. No, I'm not sick like that. I remember the periodic table and the laws of genetics even if I don’t need them in my work, and I’m an economist by education. But this nightmare with native speech ... is washed out of memory completely on its own. Everytime. Yes, that happens too.

On behalf of all normal living people, I’m ready to apologize for mistakes, it’s not difficult for me. But it's kind of weird. After all, there are people who are simply given everything, no matter what they undertake. And there are those for whom everything is given with great difficulty. There are tired, not getting enough sleep, sick, overworked. Should I apologize for them?

In short, stop blaming. Nothing in life is and never will be perfect! Everything is changeable, even the blessed Russian language itself with all its train of rules.

Thoughts, aphorisms, quotes. Business, career, management Dushenko Konstantin Vasilyevich

Humans tend to make mistakes

It is natural for every person to err, but only a fool can persevere in error.

Mark Tullius Cicero(106-43 BC), Roman politician, orator

To err is human, but it is even more common to put the blame on others.

"Jacobs Law"

To err is human, but it is better to find some other excuse for yourself.

Bill Dettle(USA)

To err is human, but our firm is unforgiving.

American saying

To err is human, but if your eraser wears faster than a pencil, you are wrong too often.

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Paul Erlich(USA)

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