Core Management Skills II

Here now are the last two core management skills...

TECHNICAL SKILLS. These are your specialized skills, which
are useful to you in understanding various types of jobs that are
done under you and why things operate as they do.

While your employees need these skills in order to successfully
do their job and complete their tasks, you need these skills in
order to guide, assist, and coach your people in doing their job.

Technical skills are particularly important in supervising
employees who are unfamiliar with their job or present assignment.
Yet superior or above average technical skills can sometimes
become a disadvantage for managers. It might make them set
unrealistic standards for their people (i.e., "asking if I can do it,
why can't they", "forgetting the preparation time and experience
they have had", etc.), be impatient with their people, or focus on
"doing" instead of managing.

Nevertheless, if you are in transition, make sure you learn the
ropes and understand the process the soonest. Remember?
Experience is just repetition. Familiarity is a matter of exposure.
It's high learning ability that really counts.

ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS. The skills involved here are the
functional abilities of a manager: planning, organizing, and
controlling work in one's unit, section or division. It also includes
skills in problem analysis and decision making.

Your ability to use your administrative skills effectively is based
on your knowledge about the organization as a whole and how
the different units are related to and depend on each other.

A manager who has administrative skills has the ability to
achieve his goals within the bounds of organizational constraints
and its policies and procedures. This means that the manager...
understands his job, understands his subordinates' jobs, takes
immediate action... does not ignore problems, follows up on
promises, gets tough when necessary, and assures that the next
in command knows his role and has the authority to act.


In all these, even if your core management skills are tops, if you
do not have the guts to disengage from the status quo... you can
not be that great power.

"A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought."
- Warren Buffet

Take note... "There's no end to learning... and in this case,
courage, proactiveness, and high learning ability is what really
matters specially for managers."