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Management Skills 1

Understanding Team Dynamics and Encouraging Good Relationships

Good management means understanding how teams operate. It's worth remembering that
teams usually follow a certain pattern of development: forming, norming,
storming, and performing. It's important to encourage and support people
through this process, so that you can help your team become fully effective as
quickly as possible.

When forming
teams, managers must create a balance so that there's a diverse set of skills,
personalities, and perspectives. You may think it's easier to manage a group of
people who are likely to get along, but truly effective teams invite many
viewpoints and use their differences to be creative and innovative.

Here, your
task is to develop the skills needed to steer those differences in a positive
direction. This is why introducing a team charter and knowing how to resolve
team conflict are so useful for managing your team effectively.

Key Points

 You need to develop and improve your
managerial skills on an ongoing basis as your career develops and as you meet
new managerial challenges.

  Whether you manage a department or a project
team, it's important to know how to get the work done right. When you're asked
to achieve something with the help of others, it's complex – and you spend much
of your time managing relationships instead of doing the actual work. So, you
must develop not only your technical skills, but your management skills as
well.

 Delegating,
motivating, communicating, and understanding team dynamics are some of the key
skills needed. With those skills, along with patience and a strong sense of
balance, you can become a very effective manager

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