The One Minute Manager : Quick Book Summary

Harsh Patel
2 min readJun 2, 2022

This Book helps with the Innovative Technique to Manage Teams, Upgrade your Productivity and Setting up the Healthy + Quality Work Environment processes.

The One Minute Manager — Book Summary

All the techniques, you can relate with your Type & Ability to setup, monitory and control the project / organization teams.

ONE MINUTE GOAL SETTING

  • Agree on your Goals — Company vs Individuals
  • See What’s the Good Behaviour Looks Like
  • Measure whether Current Progress is Aligned or Not

ONE MINUTE PRAISING

  • Tell all the Members that You Will Give Honest Feedback to Them

Praise People Immediately. Tell Specifically What They Did Right

  • Stop for a Moment to Let Them Feel that How Good You Feel for Them.

ONE MINUTE RE-DIRECT

Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions. It is feedback that keeps us going

  • Tell Specifically what they did Wrong. Tell People/ Colleagues that What You Feel About that Work.
  • The Feedback should happen in small doses. Because its Monthly / Weekly, People can easily Improve & Apply.
  • Stay Silent for Few Seconds while giving the Feedback. Always, Remind How Much You Value Them.

Remember When It’s Over, means, Over ! (don’t Remind feedback etc. again)

Actionable Takeaways

  1. Goal Setting — For You, Team & Organization
  2. One Minute Praising, and
  3. One Minute Re-Direct

All these Activities should not take more than 5 Minutes. It’s recommend that you take it up on Monthly basis so You, Team can visualize their Real Growth

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