These three ‘A’s will help keep your mindset as a manager in the right place. 

Acceptance – some things will just happen. You may not get the budget you asked for, you may not have inherited the team you would have hired, and many things will come out of nowhere or not go the way you’d like. There are some things you can’t conrol and you just have to acknowledge it and accept it. Now how will you take this forward? 

Management manuals can be helpful, as can job descriptions but what exactly is the job of a manager. Remember these three fundamentals and you won’t go far wrong. 

As a coach, I talk to clients who can get stuck on ruminating on something that didn’t go the way they wanted or expected. When you feel like that, here are two things to remember:

There can be many measures for how well you’re doing your job, but whether the team are ‘happy’ or not is a good one.

When I ask clients what ‘good’ looks like for them at work, the phrase ‘people are happy with what I’m doing’ is often heard. Whether it’s the first answer they give or perhaps the third or fourth as they reflect and think about it, it’s often there.