If you desire to succeed as a manager you need to pay attention to several aspects of leadership, management and learning within your work-space. Thus, it is difficult to successfully enumerate and say the following 5 items are the skills needed to succeed as a manager. Different articles are doled out daily with variations on the same theme but the following as the basic skills you require to successfully harness people and resources.
Effective and responsive interpersonal relationship is integral as a manager. Your subordinates will appreciate your ability to demonstrate attentiveness, care, respect and trust without compromising your professional boundaries. You also need to master proper communication skills, including oral, written and good listening skills.
As a manager, you are the liaison between the senior management and the front-line staffs so you need to communicate ideas with total clarity. You also need to make yourself available and accessible to your staff where necessary. Organization and delegation is also a major key. You’ll need to organize, delegate and joggle things up on a daily basis. Contemporaneously, you need to manage your workload, oversee employees and feed the board back without any slacks.