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Business Management Skills

Business management skills are robust tools in the hands of the manager. Regardless the company you work for or the size of the team that you supervise, these skills make you succeed as a manager.

The established description of management is restricted to “the process of working with and through others to achieve organizational objectives”.

A manager’s four fundamental competencies are: planning, organizing, directing, and controlling.

Planning is a substantial part of business management skills. A manager that can plan is one that has the capacity to accomplish tasks. Planning entails scheduling activities, probing, analyzing, setting goals and objectives, distributing resources, shaping strategies and timelines. As a manager you need ensure that each goal translates into an activity and that each activity helps meet that goal.

Strategic planning is a critical element of the managers “planning process”. The role of the manager is evolving beyond “the daily operational business”. Managers are becoming visionary leaders for their organizations, they landscape future directions, facilitate important relationships to maintain reputation and sustainability.

Directing is establishing and communicating particular,detailed action-plans to meet goals and objectives.

Organizing and controlling are two additional business management skills required to be successful in the business world. Organizing involves compiling and coordinating the resources and such as human,monetary and other tangible and non-tangibale assets, in order to trace activities needed to achieve goals. Further, it entails assigning and delegating tasks to various team members to complete certain tasks and make things happen.
The controlling task ensures that work-plans are being executed and goals are attained by overseeing and evaluating performance. The concept of controlling has evolved together with manager’s role. Nowadays, controlling consists of monitoring progress by providing guidance and support to the employees.

Other valuebale business management skills:

More and more companies are requiring that managers show a broad collection of competencies on top of their specialized, hard skills.Soft skills are vital to your successful functioning as managers. Good work ethics, positive attitude, keenness to gain continuos knowledge, cultural sensitivity, exceptional business conduct and standards have enormous impact on employees, stakeholders and organizational setting . If you are looking to enhance the organizational culture, you cannot
do it without addresing attitudes, point of views and soft-skills. Social liability is based on attitudes and soft-skills. Cooperation within the agency as well as a wholesome, transparent work atmosphere is based on attitudes and soft-skills.

This article teach you how to benefit in the management of the business using your presentation skills.

Before the presentation:

Knowledge of the characteristics of the offeree the most important factors to the success of the presentation, they lead you to determine the style and language to be used, and will it be: Official or friendly. Professional, technical or slang. General information or specialized. Total or in detail

During the presentation:

? Be sure to follow listeners by your eyes fair and balanced.
? Noted the actions of the present and careful interpretation of physical expressions of the audience.
? Understanding of the situation and conditions of the audience: air, as food, stress after the working day, come from travel, and others.

Elements of the presentation:

? Introduction
? Content
? Conclusion

A-Introduction:

Designed to pave the audience and informing them about the elements of the subject.
A good Introduction made clear to the listeners the nature of the subject matter, showing them what to expect from the presentation, and the expectation of the speaker from them.

Elements of the introduction:

? Extended greetings to the audience
? Introduce yourself
? Substance of the presentation (the title)
? Time of the introduction

Content of the introduction:

? Reference to what should not be expected from the presentation
? Reference to training aids, material science, literature ,….. And other

characteristics of successful introduction:

successful Introduction must lead to:

? Attract the attention of listeners
? Break the barriers and melting the ice between the speaker and listeners
? Make listeners feel the importance of the presentation subject
? Make listeners feel of their need to information provided
? Reduction of excess expectations of listeners
? Suspense to engage listeners on presentation.

how to start an Introduction:

There are many models of good beginning, including:

? The issue of Introduction: will speak at the next hour….
? Communication with the audience: I know that the weather today is hot and you are exhausted from traveling.
? A short story related to the subject of the presentation.
? An interesting information
? an interesting question: : How much of you need a good solution for business management?
? Explain the problem and then begin to put alternatives to solutions.

B-Content:

Is the central part and most of the presentation, which aim to:

? Retain the attention of viewers.
? Help them to follow up the ideas raised.
? Directed towards findings the results.

characteristics of successful Content:

To achieve the goals:

? Is planning to build or structure of the subject the way in which to convince the audience.
? Divides the content to points (Headlines) primary and secondary clear and logical sequence.
? Be used to clarify the means of a simple and expressive.
? Use appropriate language structures to link the transition between the parts of the presentation.

Building structure of Content:

There are several methods for dividing the content of the presentation, including:

? The division of time: past, present and future.
? Factional division: finance, human resources, production.
? Comparative division: the old system, the proposed system.
? division of alternatives: the first alternative, the second alternative, the third alternative.
? Division of gradual (upward or downward:)one of the most important factor, followed by …
? Network division: individual, institution, society.

Wait for my next article Business Management and Presentation Skills part 2 about Management in Business.