UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
College of Business
Department of Business Administration
BADM449 Strategic Management/Business Policy
Management Skills
Below is a list of the most frequently cited skills of effective managers. This survey is the assessment of more than 500 mid-level and upper managers in about 150 organizations:
Most Frequently Cited Skills of Effective Managers
- Verbal communication (especially the ability to listen and give counsel)
- Managing time and stress
- Managing individual decisions
- Recognizing, defining, and solving problems
- Motivating and influencing others
- Delegating
- Setting goals that are operational
- Self-awareness
- Team building
- Managing conflict
- Ability to give a formal presentation
- Patience and respect toward others
- Analytic abilities and technical competence
- Hard work and enthusiasm
- Knowledge of (defining) the business
- A strong disciplinary background (e.g., accounting) and the ability to integrate specialized knowledge in management, finance, and marketing
- Ability to write effective reports
- Strategic planning
- Tolerance and adaptability to change
- Bottom line: Managing entails working with people
The strategic management course has traditionally emphasized the ability to integrate specialized knowledge in management, accounting, finance, and marketing. This course will not only follow in the tradition of encouraging synthetic abilities but will also emphasize analytical abilities and the development of analytic tools in management.
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