Chapter 2
The Seven Skills of Management
In This Chapter
• The importance of proper planning
• Developing your decision-making skills
• The secrets of effective delegation
• Communicating with your employees effectively
Management skills and tasks all have one purpose: to help you get things done through others. Management theories and fads come and go. Most of the theories (and even some of the fads) have something useful to say about management. But the skills and tasks we examine in this chapter have always been, and always will be, essential to managing others.
Managers should spend their time focusing on these seven main skills and tasks of management:
• Planning
• Goal setting
• Decision making
• Delegating
• Providing support
• Communicating ...
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