What are the Skills Needed to be a Good Manager?

The list of skills needed to be a great manager is long and varied and endless.Let’s take a look at what we like to call: “What nobody thought to tell you at the interview”.

Your managers didn’t in any way set out to keep things from you during the interview process. However and inevitably, in any interview, the main focus is usually on the specifics of the fit between you and the company and the fit between you and the goals of the organization.

Your bosses will have had in mind that the company is about to e.g. launch a new initiative or they want to re-organize the company or they want a leader for a new department or they have a specific problem which they needed someone with the ability to fix…etc. That’s all about what the company needs from you and that’s why they employed you.

What they didn’t think to mention is that there are tasks which are implicit in a manager’s job which may not have been detailed to you and it may not have occurred to you that they are explicit in your job. And…they are the skills of an effective manager.

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