Management overview
Good support, management and leadership of our staff is key to our effectiveness.
| Key questions | Aim | Risks in getting it wrong |
| This may be the first time all or at least many of you are working together. How are you going to build a wide range of individuals with vastly different backgrounds, experience and expectations into an effective team? | A team which works well together and shares as many common goals as possible More | Frustrated and ineffective staff and managers leading to poor programme delivery |
| Are you a leader or a manager – what is actually required? What are your strengths as a manager? Is your natural management style appropriate? |
A team which is well managed and led, in a style best suited to the context More | |
| How will you insure that information, ideas and concerns are shared between team members? | Effective communication | Mistakes, misunderstandings, and frustration
Unprofessional and illegal conduct goes undetected |
| Team members are expected to perform but how will you and they know whether they are? | Clear and accepted objectives which performance can be assessed against and action taken where necessary to improve performance | Inefficiency, frustration and recriminations |
| How are you going to keep staff turnover within manageable limits? | Your programme, organisation and the sector retains competent staff More | Your programme suffers.
The organisation and the sector as a whole’s ability to respond to emergencies is weakened |
| How will you review salaries? | Just salary scales and increases which are reviewed in a timely and regular fashion. More | Resentment or resignations among staff.
Time and effort wasted on endless reviews |
| How are you going to ensure that the team remains as healthy and safe as possible? | Any risks taken are both essential for the achievement of programme goals, and justifiable in terms of potential benefits. More | Serious illness or death of team members for unjustifiable reasons. |
| How are you going to maintain staff motivation in a difficult environment? | Motivated and committed staff.
Increased programme, organisational and sectorial HR capacity. More |
Resentment and resignations among staff.
Poor utilisation of available HR resources. |
| How are you going to keep essential HR records | Accurate records are kept so that team members receive their full entitlements More | Confusion, misunderstandings and possibly financial loss and fraud |