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Seventeen Personal skills of the effective manager 

The management of others depends primarily on the management of yourself.

Read them through.

As you read, ask yourself,  

1. Which ones am I doing?
2. And which ones am I NOT doing?

Remember:  Your goal is to succeed.

To succeed, you would profit by:

1. Identifying any errors
2. Replace them with skills

With that in mind, here is a list of seventeen skills.

1. Develop a keen desire for improvement
Develop your desire to improve things by your own efforts.Do not leave things as they are. 

2. Name your major goals
Mark out a clear set of goals for the next twelve months

Do not wait to “see how things turn out”

3. Develop a beneficial alliance
Develop a team of people around you. Choose those people that you can trust to help with practical advice and assistance

Do not try to work it out, on your own.

4. Develop a pleasing personality
Develop a pleasing personality by consciously filing down any rough edges you may have in your personality

Do not continue to expose others to your bad habits.

5. Build Self confidence
Develop a self confidence based upon an accurate assessment of your skills

Do not sell yourself short     

Nor over inflate your ego

6. Act on your own personal initiative
Strive to take the initiative in any situation: Ensure that you set the pace for others.

Stop waiting for the circumstances to be “just right”.

7. Be willing to "go the extra mile"
Be willing to go the extra mile for your people. Do MORE than the other person expected, not LESS.

8. Develop Controlled Enthusiasm
Generate your own enthusiasm at will.

Do not wait for others to inspire you. (They can’t, because only YOU can inspire you.)

9. Learn self discipline

Learn how to make yourself do what you do NOT want to do.

Do not let things slide based on your own inaction.

10. Practice the art of accurate thinking

Learn to accurately distinguish between:

Important v trivial
Relevant V irrelevant

11. Develop your organisation ability

Become excellent at building detailed, specific, practical plans of action:

Never start a day without a written plan of action.

Study leadership:  Learn how to create a spirit of harmony between members of your team.

Disharmony will ruin the team’s performance.

13. Give freedom to your creative vision 

Allow your imagination the freedom to supply you with creative ideas.

Don’t say too early “NO- IT WONT WORK”. 

14. Develop everlasting persistence

Come back after each defeat, with a new, improved plan.

Never give in.

15. Cultivate sound health

Moderate your intake of:

• booze
• food

No not over eat.

Nor drink too much booze.

Spend LESS than you earn and INVEST the difference.

Too many people do the opposite:

They spend MORE than they earn and BORROW the difference.

Hence the credit crunch.

17. Become a careful communicator 

Learn to speak politely, carefully and with thought.

Don’t let yourself down with language that is:

• hurtful
• careless 
• ill thought out

Name the two points that represent a weakness and resolve to take corrective action.

Do not allow this to pass.

Practice the skill and make it your new strength.

Visit the Corporate Coach Group website for more information about Management Training. 

See you next week. 

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