Basic Management Skills
Overview
• Planning, organizing, staffing,
directing, coordinating, reporting:
necessary but not sufficient
• Need human interaction skills
– Respect
– Understanding
– Involvement
Types of plan
• Comprehensive
• Annual work plan
• Long-range plan
• Strategic planning

PLANNING
ORGANIZING
STAFFING
DIRECTING
COORDINATING
REPORTING
• Prior organizational
decisions
• Make organization work
for you
• Make organization match
reality

PLANNING
ORGANIZING
STAFFING
DIRECTING
COORDINATING
REPORTING
• Have a plan
• Work with HR department
• Work with what you have
• Assess strengths and
weaknesses
• Match personalities to jobs

PLANNING
ORGANIZING
STAFFING
DIRECTING
COORDINATING
REPORTING
• Need for vision
• Knowing your options
• Hands-off vs. hands-on
– Off when things are going
well
– On when correction avoids
pain

PLANNING
ORGANIZING
STAFFING
DIRECTING
COORDINATING
REPORTING
• Types of problems
– Productivity
– Behavior
• Understanding human behavior
– Respect
– Listen
– Involve

PLANNING
ORGANIZING
STAFFING
DIRECTING
COORDINATING
REPORTING
Coordinating vs. Controlling
• Control processes
• Coordinate people
– Functions
– Decentralized operations

PLANNING
ORGANIZING
STAFFING
DIRECTING
COORDINATING
REPORTING
• The need for reports
• The need for focus
• The need for brevity
• The need for clarity

PLANNING
ORGANIZING
STAFFING
DIRECTING
COORDINATING
REPORTING

Basic management skills

  • 1.
    Basic Management Skills Overview •Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting: necessary but not sufficient • Need human interaction skills – Respect – Understanding – Involvement
  • 2.
    Types of plan •Comprehensive • Annual work plan • Long-range plan • Strategic planning PLANNING ORGANIZING STAFFING DIRECTING COORDINATING REPORTING
  • 3.
    • Prior organizational decisions •Make organization work for you • Make organization match reality PLANNING ORGANIZING STAFFING DIRECTING COORDINATING REPORTING
  • 4.
    • Have aplan • Work with HR department • Work with what you have • Assess strengths and weaknesses • Match personalities to jobs PLANNING ORGANIZING STAFFING DIRECTING COORDINATING REPORTING
  • 5.
    • Need forvision • Knowing your options • Hands-off vs. hands-on – Off when things are going well – On when correction avoids pain PLANNING ORGANIZING STAFFING DIRECTING COORDINATING REPORTING
  • 6.
    • Types ofproblems – Productivity – Behavior • Understanding human behavior – Respect – Listen – Involve PLANNING ORGANIZING STAFFING DIRECTING COORDINATING REPORTING
  • 7.
    Coordinating vs. Controlling •Control processes • Coordinate people – Functions – Decentralized operations PLANNING ORGANIZING STAFFING DIRECTING COORDINATING REPORTING
  • 8.
    • The needfor reports • The need for focus • The need for brevity • The need for clarity PLANNING ORGANIZING STAFFING DIRECTING COORDINATING REPORTING