2019 Trends in Management Practices Taking Today’s Office by Storm

One of the best parts about writing for one of the world's leading training companies is researching new trends in management, human resources and learning development practices. Honestly, some of it seems so futuristic it’s like science fiction. Other practices have their roots in management theory that go back 70 years and just gets tweaked to accommodate today’s workers and the technology that is available to use.

While researching management trends for a report I’m doing for our C-suite executives, I came across 13 fascinating trends in management. Many of them were new to me so I’ve decided to put them in this blog.

Use these 13 points to become a different kind of manager:   

• Acting it out. Taking a page from psychologists, today’s managers use puppets to settle conflict between co-workers.
• PraIse only successful work. Praising failure tells your staff that it is okay to be marginally talented.  
• Reports are everything. Employees who get daily reports on everything feel more engaged.  
• Interview potential employees who you feel will fall in line with your views quickly.  
• Listen only to certain employees. Honestly, do you think every employee is savvy enough to come up with solutions to problems?  

• Fear works when it comes to keeping employees busy.  
• Organization goals take precedence over everything else. Without an organization, there are no jobs so employees will fall in line quickly.  
• Older employees are better than young ones because they don’t feel the need to change everything. Millennials are often pushy.  
• List company values and mission statements on walls so employees can see you have them. That doesn’t mean you have to actually follow them, BTW.
• Silence is golden. Keep a lid on office fraternization because too much talking is just annoying.  

• Delegate your hardest tasks. That way you have an employee to blame when it doesn’t work.  
• Avoid conflict whenever possible. That’s why God created office door locks.  
• You, of course, shouldn’t follow any of these. Instead, celebrate the first day of April with your co-workers and have fun.  

And if you haven’t noticed the first letter of all these bullets, have a very happy April Fool’s Day.