Question for Department Managers
 

In a normal work day how much of your time is spent:

1) Performing managerial functions such as coaching, directing workflow, counseling. In other words managing your team

2) Performing tasks that only you are slated to handle....

I spend about ...

20% on company management
20% on managing others' tasks
60% on tasks

The second one is lower than it has been in the past, and will likely rise again for various reasons. In the past the ratio has been as high as 20/60/20. I suspect in the next couple of years it'll go up again to more of a 20/50/30 split.

50% stocking arrows, basketballs, and bicycle tires.

Oh, you weren't talking about THAT kind of department manager...

1) 50-60 percent, my chief goal with employees is to make them better for another job where they can better themselves with more pay. this is also how I empire build. lol

2) 40-50 percent. But I limit things that only I can do. It's make the company and the TEAM weak to be the bottleneck

FYP...

What is -
20% on company management
30% on managing others' task
50% on tasks

What it should be -
20% on company management
5% on managing others' task
75% on tasks

Cursed with inheriting a small staff for a grant project that has a limited time span. Cannot address issue with one of the staff. If this gig wasn't temporary she would get some serious reprimanding, as it stands it isn't worth the headache.

I'm also interested. I'm up for a promotion right now where I'd be in charge of the entire office. I don't have any managerial experience and I tend to give employees leeway on working on their own stuff so that I can handle my workload.

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I spend most of my time looking at TPS reports and fixing PC-Load Letter errors for my minions.

50% fires and unplanned requests or projects
40% tasks and project management
10% coaching/teaching

Technology department.

Small team and demand for our services keeps me from coaching and strategic planning S much as i would like

The tough mindset to break is that your own workload as a manager should not include tasks, and it should just involve helping others do tasks. I have challenges with that even though I should know better, but sometimes I look around and say, "Y'know, I'm the best guy to do that." I really shouldn't.

40% POOPING
20% JERKING OFF
40% CP and/or POOPING and/or JERKING OFF

I won't have that opportunity though. I'm having to keep some of my tasks because they'll be eliminating my position if/when I get promoted. So I'll still have a good majority of the work I do now....I'll just have running the office and supervising 7 people on top of it.

Thanks all...I posted this just to get a read on how other Managers have to spend their time. There are days that my percentages vary for me.

I know there is a difference between a "managing" Manager and a "working" Manager.

Well, I haven't had a manager directly above me for around 9 months now and so I've been doing that job and my job. I was basically already told I would have that job but because they are expecting to reorganize the company in the next couple of years, I'm not going to be promoted because that job may not exist soon. I only add that tidbit because it directly influences how I spend my time since I'm essentially doing the work of two people.

90% tasks - project work, reports, leading cross dept. implementations.
10% managing my direct reports.

I was probably closer to a 70/30 ratio before. Basically this means I don't have enough time to develop staff like I used to. Fortunately I already have some strong ones in place that I've already developed, the new folks are the ones that don't get enough of my time.