Managerial Skills
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When are technical skills most heavily used in a career?
How are technical skills usually learned?
What are technical skills?
What is an example of a technical skill?
Reading method that involves underlining, summarizing, and asking questions to improve comprehension and retention.
Example of technical skills in accounting.
Skills and knowledge needed to perform specific job-related tasks.
Through formal education, training, and work experience.
Technical Skills
Technical skills are often used most often early in a person's career and in entry-level positions.
Technical skills are the specific abilities and knowledge needed to perform particular tasks or jobs. These skills are usually learned through formal education, job training, and work experience, and are used most often early in a career to complete hands-on work.
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Which managers rely most on interpersonal skills?
Why are interpersonal skills critical for mid-level managers?
What are interpersonal skills?
What are examples of interpersonal skills?
Reading method that involves underlining, summarizing, and asking questions to improve comprehension and retention.
Skills used to get along with, motivate, and work effectively with others.
Mid-level managers rely most on interpersonal skills.
Teamwork, trust-building, conflict management, motivation.
Interpersonal Skills
They work with both top-level managers and first-line managers.
Interpersonal skills are the abilities used to work well with others, including motivating people, building relationships, managing conflict, and encouraging teamwork.
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Why are conceptual skills important for senior executives?
What are two abilities that conceptual skills require?
What are conceptual skills?
Reading method that involves underlining, summarizing, and asking questions to improve comprehension and retention.
Which managers rely most on conceptual skills?
Skills used to analyze complex situations and think abstractly.
They help leaders make decisions that affect the entire organization.
Conceptual skills require analytical ability and creativity ability.
Top-level managers and senior executives.
Conceptual Skills
Conceptual skills are the abilities to think abstractly, analyze complex situations, and see the organization as a whole.
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Why are conceptual skills important for senior executives?
At what levels of an organization are communication skills important?
What are communication skills?
What weakens effective communication?
Reading method that involves underlining, summarizing, and asking questions to improve comprehension and retention.
The ability to express ideas clearly in speaking and writing.
They help leaders make decisions that affect the entire organization.
Conceptual skills require analytical ability and creativity ability.
Communication skills are important at all levels.
Communication Skills
Communication skills are the abilities to clearly and effectively share information through speaking and writing.
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What are time-management skills?
How can managers reduce wasted time in meetings?
Reading method that involves underlining, summarizing, and asking questions to improve comprehension and retention.
What is a strategy for better time management?
Why do managers need strong time-management skills?
Skills used to organize time and complete tasks efficiently.
Start and end on time and follow an agenda.
They face many demands and frequent interruptions.
Tip!
Prioritizing important tasks.
Time-Management Skills
Time-management skills are the abilities used to prioritize tasks, manage interruptions, and use time efficiently to accomplish goals.
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True or False: Managers always make decisions alone.
What are decision-making skills?
Reading method that involves underlining, summarizing, and asking questions to improve comprehension and retention.
What comes after identifying a problem?
What is the first step in decision making?
Skills used to solve problems and choose the best solution.
Analyzing possible solutions.
Defining the problem.
False. Decisions can be made individually or as part of a team.
Decision-Making Skills
Decision-making skills are the abilities to identify problems, evaluate options, and choose the best course of action.
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This learning activity is adapted from content originally licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) License. Attribution was not requested by the original creator or licensor. All instructional content, including AI-assisted adaptations, revisions, and custom interactive learning activities created by Saylor Academy, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. All Genially proprietary elements, including templates, themes, built-in assets, stock media, and other “Genially Content,” remain subject to Genially’s Terms of Service and are not covered by this Creative Commons license. These elements must remain embedded in the course and may not be reused, extracted, or redistributed independently."
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Managerial Skills
Start
Use this side of the card to provide more information on a topic. Focus on a concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information on a topic. Focus on a concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
When are technical skills most heavily used in a career?
How are technical skills usually learned?
What are technical skills?
What is an example of a technical skill?
Reading method that involves underlining, summarizing, and asking questions to improve comprehension and retention.
Example of technical skills in accounting.
Skills and knowledge needed to perform specific job-related tasks.
Through formal education, training, and work experience.
Technical Skills
Technical skills are often used most often early in a person's career and in entry-level positions.
Technical skills are the specific abilities and knowledge needed to perform particular tasks or jobs. These skills are usually learned through formal education, job training, and work experience, and are used most often early in a career to complete hands-on work.
Next
Click and hold to grab the card, then drag it to the right and release to revel the next card.
Use this side of the card to provide more information on a topic. Focus on a concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information on a topic. Focus on a concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Which managers rely most on interpersonal skills?
Why are interpersonal skills critical for mid-level managers?
What are interpersonal skills?
What are examples of interpersonal skills?
Reading method that involves underlining, summarizing, and asking questions to improve comprehension and retention.
Skills used to get along with, motivate, and work effectively with others.
Mid-level managers rely most on interpersonal skills.
Teamwork, trust-building, conflict management, motivation.
Interpersonal Skills
They work with both top-level managers and first-line managers.
Interpersonal skills are the abilities used to work well with others, including motivating people, building relationships, managing conflict, and encouraging teamwork.
Next
Click and hold to grab the card, then drag it to the right and release to revel the next card.
Use this side of the card to provide more information on a topic. Focus on a concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information on a topic. Focus on a concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Why are conceptual skills important for senior executives?
What are two abilities that conceptual skills require?
What are conceptual skills?
Reading method that involves underlining, summarizing, and asking questions to improve comprehension and retention.
Which managers rely most on conceptual skills?
Skills used to analyze complex situations and think abstractly.
They help leaders make decisions that affect the entire organization.
Conceptual skills require analytical ability and creativity ability.
Top-level managers and senior executives.
Conceptual Skills
Conceptual skills are the abilities to think abstractly, analyze complex situations, and see the organization as a whole.
Next
Click and hold to grab the card, then drag it to the right and release to revel the next card.
Use this side of the card to provide more information on a topic. Focus on a concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information on a topic. Focus on a concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Why are conceptual skills important for senior executives?
At what levels of an organization are communication skills important?
What are communication skills?
What weakens effective communication?
Reading method that involves underlining, summarizing, and asking questions to improve comprehension and retention.
The ability to express ideas clearly in speaking and writing.
They help leaders make decisions that affect the entire organization.
Conceptual skills require analytical ability and creativity ability.
Communication skills are important at all levels.
Communication Skills
Communication skills are the abilities to clearly and effectively share information through speaking and writing.
Next
Click and hold to grab the card, then drag it to the right and release to revel the next card.
Use this side of the card to provide more information on a topic. Focus on a concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information on a topic. Focus on a concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
What are time-management skills?
How can managers reduce wasted time in meetings?
Reading method that involves underlining, summarizing, and asking questions to improve comprehension and retention.
What is a strategy for better time management?
Why do managers need strong time-management skills?
Skills used to organize time and complete tasks efficiently.
Start and end on time and follow an agenda.
They face many demands and frequent interruptions.
Tip!
Prioritizing important tasks.
Time-Management Skills
Time-management skills are the abilities used to prioritize tasks, manage interruptions, and use time efficiently to accomplish goals.
Next
Click and hold to grab the card, then drag it to the right and release to revel the next card.
Use this side of the card to provide more information on a topic. Focus on a concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
Use this side of the card to provide more information on a topic. Focus on a concept. Make learning and communication more efficient.
True or False: Managers always make decisions alone.
What are decision-making skills?
Reading method that involves underlining, summarizing, and asking questions to improve comprehension and retention.
What comes after identifying a problem?
What is the first step in decision making?
Skills used to solve problems and choose the best solution.
Analyzing possible solutions.
Defining the problem.
False. Decisions can be made individually or as part of a team.
Decision-Making Skills
Decision-making skills are the abilities to identify problems, evaluate options, and choose the best course of action.
Next
Click and hold to grab the card, then drag it to the right and release to revel the next card.
Directions: Drag each task to the correct skill.
Great Work!
This learning activity is adapted from content originally licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) License. Attribution was not requested by the original creator or licensor. All instructional content, including AI-assisted adaptations, revisions, and custom interactive learning activities created by Saylor Academy, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. All Genially proprietary elements, including templates, themes, built-in assets, stock media, and other “Genially Content,” remain subject to Genially’s Terms of Service and are not covered by this Creative Commons license. These elements must remain embedded in the course and may not be reused, extracted, or redistributed independently."