Management Skills

✫ Understand the different types of delegation

✫ Know the benefits and challenges of delegation

✫ Recognize your comfort with delegation

✫ How to conduct an effective delegation conversation

✫ Practice your delegation skills

Frame your ideas in strategic business language, speak and understand the language of senior managers - make a professional impression.

Instead of exploring your personal skills, a hiring manager is going to explore a variety of competencies required to be an effective manager. A hiring manager wants to find out how your think and act when confronted with tough management situations. You'll need to be prepared to demonstrate that you have the experience and ability to resolve complicated problems, lead others, and oversee large, multi-faceted projects.

Every employee needs goals to strive for. Not only do goals give employees direction and purpose, but they ensure that your employees are working towards the overall organizational goals. Set specific and measurable goals with your employees, then regularly monitor their progress toward achieving them.

Skills management enables managers to know the skill strengths and weaknesses of employees reporting to them. It can also enable them to search for employees with particular skill sets.

This is also known as the autocratic style of management. It represents top down, dictatorial decision making with little employee input. Tell is also the manner in which traditional, hierarchical organizations communicated with employees.

The manager invites employees to join him or her in making the decision. The manager considers his or her voice equal to the employees in the decision making process. You are sitting together around the same table and every voice is key in the decision.

In the sell management style, the manager has made the decision and then attempts to persuade employees that the decision is correct. The manager attempts to gain commitment from staff by selling the positive aspects of the decision. During the process of selling the decision, the manager may allow the employees to influence the details of the decision.

An effective manager has a variety of styles that he or she can use depending on the situation. They all involve the degree to which a manager decides to involve employees in decision making. Management styles also reflect the relationship the manager has with employees. A management style model will help you see the difference between the available management approaches.