Good Management....  So when hubby was promoted at work, he had to go for management training.  The people I know who oversee employees have had to go for management training.  All of them.  Schools should have this as well because I do not believe the administration degree programs are doing it.

What makes good management?  Here are some tips:

• Deal with noncompliant staff individually.  If there is a regulation violation, deal with the person(s) responsible.  Do not send an e-mail to the whole staff, reprimanding them as a whole. This is something we should never to do our students and an administrator should not treat staff this way.  It gives the appearance of you not wanting to deal with a problematic employee, not wanting to do your due diligence.  You look lazy.  You are also offending all the employees who are hard working and follow all the regulations.  Sending a blanket memo to all staff is unprofessional.
• Know your duties and pass correct information on to your employees.  If there is a new initiative your staff needs to comply with, make sure you know all aspects of that initiative front to back.  If your staff has a question you do not know the answer to, do not bs them.  They have little free time as it is.  When your directives are incorrect, the time it takes to backtrack is costly and takes time from tasks they would be better off doing, especially when the staff are teachers.  Time spent making corrections due to your mistakes is time away from the students.
• Check your e-mails before sending.  Only send your staff a message once.  Employees are busy.  Teachers are even busier.  They cannot be attached to their e-mail.  They squeeze time in between periods to check e-mail.  When you send correction e-mails, and corrections of the corrections you send two messages:  1. you are too lazy to check your initial message and 2. you do not see your employees as busy with other tasks.  Be a professional and check your e-mail thoroughly so you do not need to send corrections.
• Do not enforce regulations sporadically.  If all employees must wear an ID, make sure ALL employees do.  If staff are to sign in or sign out at a certain time, make sure ALL employees do so.  If staff are not to use cell phones in front of students, make sure NO ONE does so.  Staff knows who violates the rules.  When you enforce sporadically, you negate your authority.  You also end up with staff that sees no point in following any regulations.  Do not play favorites.
• When a staff member presents an idea, do not steal it and pass it off as your own or pass it to another staff member to present the idea.  You lose your best workers by giving no credit to their ideas.  They will take their ideas elsewhere.  When that happens, the progress you have made by stealing and presenting that persons ideas leaves with them to their new place of work.
• Unless there is an emergency, give ample notice for meetings.  When a notice for a meeting is given less than a week prior, that disrupts the after school time teachers have with their students.  There are club meetings that end up being rescheduled.  Extra help time for students ends up being cancelled.  This would not be such a big deal if there was a late bus for the kids.  However, there is not and it is hard for them to schedule rides for staying late.  When teachers have scheduled time with their kids and then have to cancel due to a last minute staff meeting, that inconveniences students and parents/guardians.

There, done for now.