managing today

-              Controlling: monitoring, comparing & correcting work performance

-              Leading: working with & through people to accomplish organizational goals

-              Planning: setting goals, establishing strategies for achieving those goals & developing plans to integrate & coordinate activities

-              Organizing: arranging & structuring work to accomplish the organization’s goals

-              Sustainability: company’s ability to achieve its business goals & increase long-term shareholder value by integrating economic, environmental, and social opportunities into its business strategies

-              Effectiveness: doing the right things / doing those work activities that will result in achieving goals

-              Efficiency: doing things right / getting the most output from the least amount of inputs

-              Management: coordinating & overseeing work activities of others so their activities are completed efficiently and effectively

-              Technical skills: job-specific knowledge & techniques needed to proficiently perform work tasks

-              Interpersonal skills: manager’s ability to work with, understand, mentor & motivate others, both individually & in groups

-              Conceptual skills: ability to think & conceptualize about abstract & complex situations

-              Political skills: manager’s ability to build power base & establish the right connections

-              Decisional roles:  making choices & decisions.

-              Informational roles: collecting, receiving & disseminating information.

-              Interpersonal roles: people & other duties that are ceremonial & symbolic in nature.

-              Managerial roles: specific actions / behaviors expected of & exhibited by a manager.