What you need to do every day to become a top manager

It's not about luck or unique abilities. Without the proper approach to the work, business communication and time management become a top manager will not be easy.

Maxim Lapin

CFO of the Moscow stock exchange, teacher Changellenge winter school.

I am often asked how to become a top manager of the company, expecting to get a universal advice. But in a high position can not come easy way - this is the result of daily work on yourself and your habits. I have a whole set of career habits, or, as I say, practice. For each of them are full of bumps and lessons learned from years of experience. I want to share the five most, in my opinion, the important ones.

1. Keep your business calendar as a program

It is impossible to complete all the tasks in one approach and still have time and always. But time management using the calendar can improve the situation. Perform the tasks you need to schedule, which is a clear algorithm. Thus, the calendar is more like a program: if the slot task, it will be executed.

Fill your calendar better on three principles:

• Each project must be fixed charge, for each meeting shall be drawn up the agenda.
• Regular long-term objectives (for example, to collect strategic session once a year) should be made to the calendar in advance.
• Each staff member or department is responsible for a specific function in the workflow must be exposed for a week forward slot that helps solve the problem gradually.

With this schedule nor one minute of your time will not be wasted, no lunch will not pass without a useful meeting.

2. Use ultranetvorkerov technology

Ultranetvorker - whoever built around a network of thousands of contacts. Communication with such people useful because through them you can always go to the right person at the moment.

It is worth paying attention to how ultranetvorkery gain and filter your contacts database:

• Constantly expanding network of contacts in all ways. This can be done through personal meetings, phone calls, mail and even social networks. A proactive access to targeted contacts necessarily completes the phrase at the end of the meeting: "Who do you recommend to meet? Who can advise in this area "ultranetvorkera task - to make sure that every contact made a few more potential.
• Sorting the contacts database by priority, choosing to concentrate on what is worth, and what - to postpone. This allows you to increase the impact and to preserve the emotional strength to communicate.
• Keep in touch with non-target portion of the contact base anyway. Not all contacts can be useful now, but cool can help in the future. This makes it possible at any time to "pull" contact as a card from a deck, and begin to pump it not as "cool" as well as "warm".

Following these principles, it is possible to significantly expand the circle of friends, not spending too much time on unproductive communication.

3. Are long-term development plan

It is important to set a target painted step by step planConsisting of the skills required and the results achieved. It is not only motivated to go forward, but also the installation asks you to succeed. We can not forget about the so-called self-fulfilling expectations - is subconsciously working tool to help your mind to achieve your goals. Follow dream easier when every day watching their progress on the path to it.

4. Take a look at the problem from different angles

It is important to develop emotional intelligence - the ability to recognize their reactions and manage, as well as to identify other people's emotions and act on them. You must be able to look at the problem through the eyes of others, because each person has its own history and its experience may be different from yours. In this case, we can not say that the man is wrong, because the only correct answer does not exist. This skill will help to avoid unnecessary conflicts and may open up new prospects for themselves.

5. Learn how to take a punch

Punch - so do not get confused when something goes wrong as you want. This ability carries the three key components:

• The realization that sooner or later, the circumstances are stronger than you.
• Ability to handle stress and control emotions.
• Discipline - ability through the power of the will to perform complex or unpleasant tasks.

Without the ability to endure hardship to become a top manager of the company is not possible, because the career path you will find very competitive and stressful situations, which can not be avoided.

If you want to achieve something, you need to repeat certain things over and over again, long and hard, producing the required quality. And then be sure your goals are achieved. Success, including a career - it's not luck or extraordinary talent and routine, habits, discipline and competent time management.