2. Overview
• Personality traits of successful managers.
• Basic skills in management.
• Managing performance.
• Becoming a great manager.
3. If there is nothing very special about your work
… You won’t get noticed, and that means you
won’t get paid much either.”
Michael Goldhaber, Wired Magazine
4. Personality Traits of Successful Managers
• Attitude
“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you
can’t, you cant!”
“Winners never quit, quitters never win.”
5. Personality Traits of Successful Managers
• Loyalty
Be loyal to yourself, your people, and your
company.
6. Personality Traits of Successful Managers
• Perfection
- Don’t settle for less than 100% from
yourself, people you care about, and
your employees.
- When you do it, just do it right.
7. Personality Traits of Successful
Managers
• Eye for details
- The eye behind your eye
- Your subconscious’s secret
scanner
- See the trees in the forest
8. Personality Traits of Successful Managers
• Honesty
Honesty leads to trust, trust leads to belief,
belief leads to dedication.
9. Personality Traits of Successful
Managers
• Organized
- Organize your mind
- Organize your
workspace
10. “Experience is not what happens to you but what you
make of what happens to you.”
Aldus Huxley
11. Basic Skills in Management
Delegation
“The primary skill of a manager consists of
knowing how to make assignments and
picking the right people to carry out those
assignments.”
Lee Iacocca
12. Basic Skills in Management
Delegation
• Micro vs. Macro
management.
• What to delegate.
• Whom to delegate to.
• Trust, but verify.
13. Basic Skills in Management
• Problem solving & Decision making
Define
Analyze
Propose
Select
Implement
Evaluate
17. Basic Skills in Management
• Coordinating/controlling
Man
Material
Machine
Time
Information
18. Basic Skills in Management
• Communication skills
–Verbal
–Listening
–Body Language
–Written
19. Basic Skills in Management
• Motivating for results
Exercise:
Write down 5 things that:
- Motivate you.
- Discourage you.
20. Basic Skills in Management
• Motivating for results
Yourself
Others
What
How
21. Managing Performance
“You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give
me my people and I’ll build the business right back
again.”
Henry Ford
22. Managing Performance
• Job description and duties
Functions
Responsibilities
Authority
Span of influence
Reporting to
28. Managing Performance
“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they
will follow you into the deepest valleys; look
upon them as your own beloved sons, and they
will stand by you even unto death.”
Sun Tzu’s Art of War
32. Leaders are born to be made
Fahmi Abdein
Leaders: Born or Made?Leaders: Born or Made?
33. Becoming a Great Manager
“In the province of the mind, what one believes
to be true either is true or becomes true.”
John Lilly
34. Becoming a Great Manager
• Know yourself.
• Love what you do.
• Learn by doing.
• Roll-up your sleeves.
• Knowledge is power.
• Practice, practice, practice.
• Persistence pays.
• Be clear.
• Be consistent.
• Be accessible.
• It’s NOT what you say, it’s HOW
you say it.
• Be fair.
• Keep your promises.
• Motivate & Reward.
• Reprimand.
• If you don’t know it, ask about it.
• Accept criticism.
• Find, and train your replacement.
36. Know Yourself
• Believe it or not, you do
have weaknesses.
• First step to recovery is
acknowledgement!
• Do not put yourself in
unbearable situations.
• Continuously do an
inventory.
37. Love What You Do
“You must love it in order to succeed
in it”
38. Learn By Doing
• Turn knowledge to practice.
• Keep doing it until you perfect it.
39. Roll-up Your Sleeves
• Hands on management.
• If you are not willing to do it yourself
don’t ask it from someone else.
Copyright Fahmi Abdein
43. Persistence Pays
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44. “The enlightened ruler lays his plans well
ahead; the good general cultivates his
resources.”
Sun Tzu’s Art of War
45. Be Clear
• Be straight forward.
• Don’t leave any chance for
misinterpretation.
• Make sure that you were
clearly understood.
52. If You Don’t Know It, Ask About It
• No one knows it all.
• Ignorance isn’t “not knowing”, rather it’s “not
asking” for knowledge
• Make them feel good.