There are a long list of skills that a management must adopt to get the work efficiently and effectively done by the employees in the organization. There are the six most essential management skills that a manager should use to perform the duties:

1. ELEMENTS FOR EFFECTIVE
MANAGEMENT SKILLS

2. ■ There are a long list of skills that a
management must adopt to get the work
efficiently and effectively done by the
employees in the organization. There are
the six most essential management skills
that a manager should use to perform
the duties:

3. Planning
■ Planning is an important aspect of working of
an organization. Planning is the ability that
makes a person or an organization to
complete their working in a set of guidelines
within the limits of the available resources
like time, money and labor. It is also a
process of using one or more than one set of
actions or strategies to attain the goal
objectives using the available resources.

4. ■ The Process of planning includes the
identifying and setting the goal and then
creating strategies and the tasks lists and
schedule how to achieve the goal. Without a
good plan a complete cannot be achieved.

5. Communication
■ Good communication skills are important for
the managers. It determines how well the
information is shared in the team and how
well the workforce is working in unity. How
well the manager communicate to his team
determines how well the work is going on
outlined procedure and how well the task will
be completed.

6. Decision-making
■ Managers have many decisions to make,
whether knowingly or not, the decision
making is the most important thing in a
manager’s success. Making good decisions
can be helpful for the success of the
organization while the bad decision can be
the reason for the failure of the organization.

7. ■ For the effective working of an organization,
good and right decisions should be made. A
manager is responsible for every decision he
makes, and also has to take responsibility for
the result of his decisions.

8. Delegation
■ Delegation is an act of passing tasks and
allowing authorities to the employees or sub-
ordinates. It is also a process of allocating or
reallocating tasks to the employees by having
a survey of their current workload and skills.

9. ■ A good manager has the ability to assign the
right task to the right people. If delegation is
done well then it helps in having good and
quick results. Delegation avoids the wastage
of time and increases the productivity.

10. Problem-solving
■ An effective manager must know how to
tackle and solve the problems effectively that
can arise in any workday. Problem solving in
management involves identifying a certain
problem and find the best ways to handle it
and find the best solution.

11. ■ It is also known as the ability of sorting the
things in right manner when the conditions
are not right. When a manager has good
problem solving skills it makes him different
from the other team members and give the
member’s confidence to achieve the task.

12. Motivating
■ Motivating is an important part of
management as it helps to bring out a desired
behavior and response from the members
and stakeholders. There are so many
motivation tricks that a managers and use
the characteristics like one’s culture and
personalities. There are 2 types of motivation,
intrinsic and extrinsic.