People Management Skills

If you're committed to becoming a better people manager, you need to:

1. Review the People Management Challenges below.
2. Select the Challenges that you need to work on. Don't try to do too much at once.
3. Pick the Actions and Implementation Ideas that best fit your personal style.
4. Set up your own Personal Action Plan on the form provided so that you can refer to it as you practice the new behaviors.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES

1. Involving Employees in Setting Objectives
2. Setting Clear Objectives for Employees
3. Managing Employees to Achieve Their Objectives
4. Ensuring Employee Understanding and Clarity in Delegating Tasks
5. Coaching Employees to Solve Their Own Problems
6. Modeling High Personal Standards to Employees
7. Building Cordial Relationships with Employees
8. Encouraging and Rewarding Risk and Innovation
9. Reviewing Individual Performance on a Regular Basis.

10.      Relating Rewards Directly to Performance

11.      Building Effective Teams in the Workplace

GUIDES

• Personal Action Plan Preparation Guide
• Implementing Change
• Effective Listening Guide
• Key Components in Productive Teams
• Managing Communications
• Methods of Communication
• Ten Commandments of Effective Communication

FORMS

• Personal Action Plan