Management Skills

Manager need skills or competencies to successfully achieve their goals. Robert katz (1974) has identified three essential management skills. There are technical skills, human skills, conseptual skills.

Technical skills the ability to apply specialized knowledge or expertise. When you think of the skill held by profesionals such as civil enginers, tax accountants, or oral surgeons, you typically focus on their technical skills. 

Human skills the ability to work whit , understand, and motivate other people, both individually in groups. Since managers get things done through other people, they must have good human skill to comunicate, motivate, and delegate.

Conseptual skills the ability to analyze ang diagnose complex situations. Decision making, for instance, requires managers to spot problems, identify alternatives that can corect them, evaluate these alternatives and select the best one.

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