6 Fundamental management skills

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6 Fundamental management skills

There is a set of six fundamental management skills: These are skills that are needed by everyone who wants to succeed in their role as a manager or team leader.

Many managers and team leaders evolve into their role over time.

For example: Sam joined the organisation years ago in a particular role, in a certain department. As the time passed, the organisation grew and so did the department. It used to be just two people in the department and now there are ten people in the same department.

These ten people need a team leader manager and Sam seems to be the best choice for the job. So now Sam is expected to manage and lead the team, but Sam has never had any training relating to how to be an effective leader manager.

Maybe you are in the same position as Sam.

You may need specialised training in fundamental management skills

You don’t need an MBA. You don’t want to go to college. You just want some practical guidance on how to manage the team on a day to day basis, in order to get the best performance from the team.

You just want a framework of fundamental, basic, practical ideas that will serve as a mental guide to successful action as a leader manager.

What are the fundamental management skills?

There are six major categories of management skills.

Here they are:

1. Setting and achieving specific goals.
2. Good communication skills; with an emphasis on the accurate use of language.
3. Good planning skills; with an emphasis on proper prioritisation and delegation.
4. Good conflict management skills; with an emphasis on how to manage performance issues.
5. Good self-management skills; with an emphasis on the development of self-motivation and self-confidence.
6. Good leadership skills; with an emphasis on the ability to inspire people to give their best efforts and to cooperate together as a team.

Each of these six fundamental management skills has numerous subsets.