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Management Skills

mplementing our own management skills in everyday life is very important for one individual, since that makes him different from the people around, the one that do not know they have those skills and the worse case the people who know they possess those but do not apply them. Using these skills helps you build your carrier stronger, establish bigger reputation on your workplace, and makes your road to success easier. The success does not comes by itself, you should be the one to bring it under your path and walk on it, if you have that chance to succeed, to grab it, but do not know that you possess those abilities, or worse you do not know how to use them, than your way will be harder. However, no matter how much a person possesses personal management skills it is very important to absorb knowledge till the end of his life. Education is the most important source for knowledge but without practice and implementation it means nothing. That is why most of the employers do not require proper education for the lower management positions; experience is what one person needs to lead on the minor departments.

In order a person to be a good manager should be sociable and talkative first, open minded and friendly. A person that is shy not talking to the employees, just making conversation with the one that he already knows or even worse staying in the office whole day is not a good manager. The last manager that I had was a good one in that point of view, there was no day or night, it was no matter if he is in a good mood or no, if he is having problems he was always prepared to stop next to you, ask you is it everything ok, do you need anything special, to give us a big smile and to walk away. That is the kind of manager that everybody respects and remembers even if you leave the company for a reason.

Another talent that individuals should possess is good organizational skills. You should be able to pick your own team, to choose your co-workers, to decide who will fit among the rest, who is the black sheep and does not belong there. This is really hard, knowing the situation that one is hired based on a one hour interview and papers talking about his past. However, the manager is the one to decide whether he will

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