How to Make Myself a Better Manager

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When a company starts, it needs someone who can organise the business and in a nutshell run the entire operation, a manager is the person for this role. “A manager is formally in charge of the organization or one of its subunits” (Hill, 2003 p.3). Not any person can be in charge of a particular group of company and just expect to get performance out of its employees and the company itself. It requires certain skills to be able to be in charge of people and stay focused on the job at hand, but also you must be able to show personality and allow for people to get along with you. “His or her primary responsibilities include supervising others rather than directly performing technical tasks” (Hill, 2003 p.3). You can also see that Hill says a manager needs to have be able to offer a level of guidance to people, a manager must be able to lead by example but also be willing nurture and help take care of its fellow members. In this report I will be going through seven different skills that managers should have a high level of in order to be successful in their position of leadership and discuss how personally I may be strong or weak in these certain areas. Also I will be finding ways in which you will be able to improve these skills and how I will take action in order to make myself a better manager.

Leadership is about taking people and guiding them through something, whether it be a sports term or in a business sense if you want to have good leadership qualities you really need to be able to display the rest of the skills that I will be talking about. Being able to communicate with your team effectively, motivate them and make decisions are just a few of the other skills that a leader should have. Leadership is about being able to tak...

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Hill, L. A.
Becoming a manager
In-text: (Hill, 2003)
Bibliography: Hill, L. (2003). Becoming a manager. 1st ed. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press.

WebsiteDecision Matrix Analysis: Making a Decision By Weighing Up Different Factors
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Decision Matrix Analysis: Making a Decision By Weighing Up Different Factors
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Bibliography: Mindtools.com, (2014). Decision Matrix Analysis: Making a Decision By Weighing Up Different Factors. [online] Available at: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_03.htm [Accessed 3 May. 2014].

WebsitePower and Poor Decision-Making
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Power and Poor Decision-Making
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