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The 5 Major Skills you need to become a Great Manager

Guest post by: Paul Butler

Article Overview: After hours of research and talking to successful managers at great length trying to establish the major skills you need to become a great manager, I have finally nailed it down to 5 key skills.

The 5 Major Skills you need to become a Great Manager

1. Communications skills. keeping in touch, empathy, rapport building, establish key interests of individual team members, talk the talk and walk the walk .
2. Resource Management. create a smooth link between support staff and sales and a thorough understanding of who's who and who's not within your company, so that when your team needs backup you know who to call.
3. Dealing with internal Politics. networking with key people to maximise opportunities for you and your team and understand all the processes.
4. Motivation skills. supporting team members, leading from the front to gain credibility, customer field visits with sales, thinking positive at all times, organise interesting team jollies and install a great winning attitude amongst your team
5.Administration skills. use performance trackers to monitor your teams and individual results, complete one to ones on time, fully utilize e-mail contact with team to inform on latest news etc, that is key to their role, make life easy for your team whenever possible, remove all the admin from the team that is possible to make their job easier.
Regards, P.J Stevens have fun and keep selling

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