Manager Job

The way you see them is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is the way they often become.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Never before have the words “turbulence” and “uncertainty” made so many business headlines. Virtually all industries are being affected by the turmoil we now face. With this level of uncertainty affecting your business and your career, what management competencies do you – a manager – need to develop to best manage your business and your employees now and during the next three years?

For years human resource professionals, corporate trainers, recruiters, managers and others have known what sets apart the average performers from the stars. It is not technical skills, nor intelligence. It is something else, something that you knew it if you saw it, but which was difficult to clearly define. It was people skills. After many years of talking about people skills, those of us in the business of training, coaching, managing and hiring have been vindicated. We can replace it with an objective, measurable term—emotional intelligence. Those who have never valued the ability to read people and understand emotions because these were soft skills and could not be measured, will have to rethink their stand. Emotional intelligence is a set of abilities.

We can classify emotional intelligence into four related parts:

• Identifying emotions – the ability to correctly identify how people are feeling
• Using emotions – the ability to create emotions and to integrate your feelings into the way you think
• Understanding emotions – the ability to understand the causes of emotions
• Managing emotions – the ability to figure out effective strategies that use your emotions to help you achieve a goal

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