Management Skills
Avoiding Common Managerial Mistakes
Good communication helps you develop facilitation skills, and it also helps you avoid some of
the most common problems for managers. Some of these common mistakes are thinking that
you can rely on your technical skills alone, asking your boss to solve your problems, putting
your boss in the awkward position of having to defend you, and not keeping your boss
informed. Our article on Team Management Skills highlights what to do to avoid these, and
other managerial problems that you should be aware of.
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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