David Summerton Business Consulting
What Makes A Manager Successful? There are lots of things you can do, or try to do, in the management role to be a success and to be recognised as someone staff admire and look up to. The problem is that the list of tasks to accomplish this can be long and daunting – time …
Essential Management Skills Needed For Success Every successful manager has developed skills in the following critical performance areas of their managerial style. All the skills below are inter-related and link together to allow you to deliver challenging performance outcomes, clear strategic and operational judgements and to develop and maintain high performing teams. Assess where you …
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What Good Managers Do Good managers are successful managers – a simple statement but undeniably true. We all have had experience of working for good, average and plain bad managers, but what key management behaviours do the good one’s display? They boil down to the following: Accountability: if a team member is under-performing and drowning …
The Top Ten Skills EVERY Manager Needs Clear sense of purpose: knowing what my targets are including making them public with my team, issuing individual targets and team targets accordingly. Strong values and personal integrity: always delivering on what I say I will do, having a focus to involve staff in decision making and being …
The Top 10 Management Skills Every Manager Needs Successful managers work consistently to develop their skills in the following areas: Planning Without a plan, nothing is achieved. As a manager you need to be competent in business planning, project planning, workload planning and contingency planning. Communication Communication covers writing, speaking and listening. You must be …
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Essential Management Skills - How Do You Measure Up? How do you measure yourself against the following skills? Truly successful managers are experts in their field BUT also live and breathe the following key skills: Positivity: This will mean leading people and teams through good times and challenging times. The challenging times can be tough, …
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