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experience and knowledge of their bosses and in so doing earn the complementary respect and admiration of their bosses over time.
Good work ethic -
The successful assistant manager is someone who is willing and able to put in the necessary time it takes to help make the business a success. Nine-to-fivers need not apply. Acclaimed filmmaker John Frankenheimer of โThe Manchurian Candidateโ and โBirdman of Alcatrazโ once said that โthe importance of hard-working assistants cannot be overemphasized.โ
Desire to be a general manager someday - Todayโs assistant manager is potentially
tomorrowโs general manager. Someone who is content just to be an assistant manager without fervently aspiring to become a general manager someday is, generally speaking, not someone who most general managers would want on their senior management team. (Yes, there are always exceptions.)
Passion and enthusiasm for the industry - Successful assistant managers are those people
who genuinely love their work and the particular industry they are in. It is simply put, โin their blood.โ Hall of Famer Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs reiterated throughout his illustrious major league career that he would have gladly played baseball even if they never paid him a cent.
A willingness to be creative - The truly
successful assistant manager is someone who is willing to think outside the box. Better yet, he or she doesnโt think about boxes at all. A common shortcoming of newer assistant managers is that they are on occasion too rules-oriented or too rigid. Industry-specific sense (i.e., common sense applied to oneโs particular industry) comes to most assistant managers over time, especially when they are working for a mature, supportive and nurturing general manager.
An interesting person - Truly successful
assistant managers are not one-dimensional. They have creative, fulfilling personal lives and myriad interests and activities independent of their work. Some people may be particularly good at the specific tasks they perform, but seldom rise to positions of real leadership within a company, particularly that of assistant manager and/or general manager. Whatever oneโs business, hiring the right assistant managers can only increase the likelihood of long-term success for everyone associated with the company. Better yet, top assistant managers make the workplace more enjoyableโand when people truly love their work, productivity, customer satisfaction and profits all naturally increase. Locating, attracting, hiring and mentoring the right assistant manager is well worth the effort.
Norm Spitzig, principal at Master Club Advisors, is internationally recognized as an
eloquent, visionary speaker and club industry expert. His talks have been well received on six continents by numerous professional associations, individual business, club leaders and civic groups. He is the author of the groundbreaking books, โPerspectives on Club Management,โ โPrivate Clubs in America and around the Worldโ and โMurder and Mayhem at Old Bunbury.โ Normโs latest offering, โHow Now, Normโs Tao,โ a humorous memoir of life lessons learned, is available at www.NormSpitzig.com. For more information, please contact Norm at normspitzig@ hotmail.com, 1-352-735-5693, or visit www.MasterClubAdvisors.com.
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ํ ๋ ๋น์ ์ํธ์ฝค์์ ์กฐ๋กฑ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋๊ณค ํ์ง๋ง, ์ด๊ฒ์ ํ์ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. โ์์ฌ๊ฐ ์ข๊ฒ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด, ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์ข๊ฒ ๋ณด์ธ๋คโ ๋ผ๋ ์๋ง์๋ ๋ผ๊ฐ ์๋ค. ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ์กฐ๋ ฅ์๋ ๋ณธ์ธ ์์ฌ์ ๊ฒฝํ๊ณผ ์ง์์ ์๋ฒฝํ๊ฒ ์ ๋ขฐํ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ก ์ธํด ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋ ์๋ก ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋์ฑ ์กด์คํ๊ฒ ๋๋ค.
์ข์ ์ง์ ์ค๋ฆฌ- ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๋ถ๋งค๋์ ๋ ๋ณธ์ธ์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ํด ํฌ์ํ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋์ด๋ค. ์ ์ ์ถํด๊ทผ(9 ์ ๋ถํฐ 5์)์ ๊ทธ๋ค์๊ฒ ํด๋น์ฌํญ์ด ์๋ค. โThe Manchurian Candidateโ ๊ณผ โBirdman of Alcatrazโ๋ก ์ ๋ช ํ ์ํ ์ ์์ John Frankenheimer ์ โ์ด์ฌํ ์ผํ๋ ์กฐ๋ ฅ์์ ์ค์์ฑ์ ์๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์กฐํด๋ ์ง๋์น์ง ์๋คโ ๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ ์ ์ด ์๋ค.
๋งค๋์ ๊ฐ ๋๊ณ ์ ํ๋ ์ด์ โ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ถ๋งค๋์ ๋ ์ ์ ์ ์ธ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๋งค๋์ ์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ๋ถ๋งค๋์ ์ ๋ง์กฑํ๊ณ , ๋ ๋์ ์ง์์ธ ๋งค๋์ ๊ฐ ๋๊ณ ์ ํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋งค๋์ ๊ฐ ํ์์ผ๋ก ์ํ๋ ์ธ์ฌ๊ฐ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. (๋ฌผ๋ก ์์ธ๋ ์๋ค).
์ ๊ณ์ ๊ดํ ์ด์ ๊ณผ ์ด์ โ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๋ถ๋งค๋์ ๋, ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ํ๋ ์ผ๊ณผ ์ ๊ณ์ ์ ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ง ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด๋ค. ๊ฐ๋จํ ๋งํ์๋ฉด, โํ๊ณ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋คโ. ๋ช ์์ ์ ๋น ํ์ก์์ธ Chicago Cubs์ Ernie Banks๋ ๋ฉ์ด์ ๋ฆฌ๊ทธ์์ ๋ฐ์ด๋ ํ์ฝ์ ํผ์น๋ฉด์๋, ํ ํผ๋ ๋ฐ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค ํด๋ ์ผ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์ธ์ณ๋๋ค. ์ฐฝ์กฐ์์ง โ ์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ๊ณตํ ๋ถ๋งค๋์ ๋ ํ์ ๋ฐํ ์๊ฐ์ ํ์ง ์๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ง์ด ๊ทธ๋ค์ ํ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๊ฐํ์ง๋ ์๋๋ค. ์ ์ ๋ถ๋งค๋์ ์ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ๋จ์ ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋๋ฌด ๊ท์น์ ์งํฅํ๊ฑฐ๋, ๊ณ ์ง์ ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ฐ์ ์ ํน์ ์ผ์ค(์ด๋ค ํน์ ์ฐ์ ์ ์ ์ฉ๋๋ ์์)๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋ ์๋ก ์๊ธฐ๊ฒ ๋๋ฉฐ, ์์ํ๊ณ , ์ง์์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ง๋๋ฅผ ์ํด์ฃผ๋ ๋งค๋์ ๋ฐ์์ ์ผํ ๋ ๋์ฑ ๊ทธ๋ฌํ๋ค.
ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ์ฌ๋- ์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ๊ณตํ ๋ถ๋งค๋์ ๋ ์ผ์ฐจ์์ ์ด์ง ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฐฝ์์ ์ด๊ณ ๋ณด๋ ์๋ ๊ฐ์ธ์ํ์ ํ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ผ์ ์๋ง์ ๊ด์ฌ๊ณผ ๋ ์ฐฝ์ ์ธ ํ๋์ ํ๋ค. ์ด๋ค ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ํน์ ์์ ์ ์์ฃผ ๋ฐ์ด๋์ง๋ง, ์ค์ง์ ๋ฆฌ๋์ญ์ ์ํ๋ ์์น๋ก๋ ์ ์น์งํ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค. ์ด๋ ํ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค์ด๋์ง, ์๋ง์ ๋ถ๋งค๋์ ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ์ฉํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ํ์ฌ์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ฑ๊ณต ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๋์ฌ์ค๋ค. ๋ํ, ์์ ๋ถ๋งค๋์ ๋ค์ ์ง์ฅ์ ๋์ฑ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ ๋ค. ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ ์ ์ผ์ ์ ์ ์ ๊ฐ๋๋ค๋ฉด, ์์ฐ์ฑ๊ณผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ง์กฑ๋, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์ด์ต์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ํฅ์๋๋ค. ์ ์ ํ ๋ถ๋งค๋์ ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ , ๊ณ ์ฉํ๊ณ , ์ด๋์ด ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ๊ณต์ ๋ค์ผ๋งํ ์ผ์ธ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.