Effective management requires four key skills: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Planning involves setting goals and determining how to achieve them. Organizing is creating an organizational structure with clear roles and responsibilities. Leading is motivating employees by communicating a clear vision and showing them how their work contributes. Controlling monitors performance and addresses any issues to ensure goals are met effectively and efficiently. Mastering these four skills is necessary for managers to guide their organizations successfully.

1. The Importance of Effective Management Image: jscreationzs / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

2. Effective Management More than just “managing” employees Qualified managers have four specific skills in common that put them ahead of the pack: Planning Organizing Leading Controlling

3. What is Management? The planning, organizing, leading, and controlling of human and other resources to achieve organizational goals effectively and efficiently

4. How do these skills make management effective? Image: jscreationzs / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

5. Planning Definition: Process of identifying and selecting appropriate organizational goals and courses of action Image: jscreationzs / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

6. Steps in the Planning Process What goals does the organization want to accomplish? What action to take to achieve these goals? Who will be used to achieve these goals?

7. Organizing Definition: Task managers perform to create a structure of working relationships that allow organizational members to interact and cooperate to achieve organizational goals

8. Organizing Finding people with specific skills sets, and grouping them to perform certain tasks Assigning authoritative positions and distributing different responsibilities Decide where resources will be distributed

9. Leading Definition: Creating a clear organizational vision for its members to accomplish, and energize and enable employees so that everyone understands the part they play in achieving organizational goals

10. Leading Leadership involves using your personality, influence, persuasion, and communication skills together to help influence employees The outcome you want out of leadership is highly motivated and committed employees

11. Controlling Definition: When managers need to evaluate how well an organization has achieved its goals and to take any corrective actions needed to maintain or improve performance Image: jscreationzs / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

12. Controlling The outcome you want from controlling is to see performance and be able to regulate ineffectiveness when it arises. Problems will happen but that’s why you make plans to begin with.

13. Conclusion All four skills coincide together to make a successful process for effective management.