Sharpen your Management Skills
Essential management skills are required whether you work in a
factory, financial services company or even run your own business.


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The following skills are must haves for any manager:

1- Technical skills: which is related to your management job
description. This skill set helps you manage the portfolio that you are
responsible to achieve its goals as set by your manager or
management team.


2- People skills: Managers manage teams usually. You people skills is
mandatory in order for you to lead a group of colleagues. Also, this
skill set is required to manage your own manager!

3- Leadership skills: This set of skills deals with your ability to achieve
the goals set for you by your management. Problem solving, creative
thinking, and new ideas developments are good examples.





Of course, the knowledge level of each of these skills depends on
your level of management that your belong to. For instance, top level
management focuses on achievement skills. Technical managers need
high level of technical skills. However, all type of managers need
people skills.


The above were the Basic management skills that are must haves.
Depending on your job description and what is expected from you,
you might need to improve and develop the following managerial skills
to fit your role as a manager and your level of management:

  1. Innovation
  2. Vision
  3. Creativity
  4. Motivation
  5. Quality assurance
  6. Customer care and customer service
  7. Discipline
  8. Coaching
  9. Training and leading by example
  10. Developing others
  11. Mentoring and Promoting staff
  12. Decision making
  13. Negotiating
  14. Planning
  15. Presentations
  16. Prioritizing
  17. Organization
  18. Time management
  19. Leadership
  20. Communication
  21. Listening
  22. Performance appraisals planning
  23. Counseling
  24. Handling grievances
  25. Delegation
  26. Information Technology
  27. Financial
  28. Commercial (eg, budgets, profit & loss, cashflow, etc)
  29. Managing inter departmental relationships
  30. Chairing meetings
  31. Follow up
  32. Business writing
  33. Recruitment: interviewing and selection
  34. Administrative



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