Essay on Interview With a Business Manager

I chose to interview Regina Geis, who holds the administrative role as acting supervisor for the County Mental Health adult day program, which provides services for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Ms. Geis has held this position for 15 months. This is her first managerial position within a human service agency. Her style of management has changed over this short period of time. She feels that she is now more direct with her direction with staff. She stated, “Maybe now I come across as a little bit cold. But I have learned that I now have to use the least amount of words to get my point across.”

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To inspire and influence others, a leader must possess many skills and abilities. As motivational speaker Peter Northouse, states, “a leader should be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant” (Northouse, 2013) Moving an entire group of individuals toward a singular goal is a considerable undertaking. Without effective communication skills and a clear vision of what needs to be accomplished, one will feel like they are trying to herd cats rather than leading.

Managers make many decisions every day. Thankfully there are many tools available to a manager as they make these decisions. Tiffany is a General Manager of a franchise in the quick service restaurant industry. She is faced with decisions dozens of times in one day. A large portion of the decisions that she is faced with are made to solve structured problems, however, sometimes an unstructured problem does arise that she needs to address. As well as solving problems Tiffany must also make plans to in order to have structure and organization to achieve the goals set forth by herself and the company that she works for. Looking at some of the decisions that Tiffany has had to make recently it can been seen how she goes about solving

When we were given the task of interviewing a manager; many questions and thoughts came to mind. But the main thing we were worried about was “Whom would we interview?”We were lucky enough to have a close connection within the group to Mr John Doe; the National Retail Field Operations Manager of Nova Energy. We set out to interview him with the aim of gaining some insight on what being a manager truly involves on a business and personal level and how we could become strong managers in the future.

3) Robert Katz identified three essential skills that managers must have to reach their goals. What are these skills?

Into the 21st century, an era filled with many possibilities of an ever changing social culture, it’s time to step out of the comfort zone to deploy new tactics to address these changes. “Today’s managers and organizations are being buffeted by massive and far- reaching competitive, social, technological, and economic changes.” (Daft. XV) Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to interview Matthew Moen, Direct of Provider Management, to one of the largest Care Management Healthcare Organization within Wisconsin, about the importance of being an effective manager. As leaders not only is it crucial to continue being exposed to innovative ways of managing, but it should include learning new styles and ways to combat these changes in which can

How well a business manages its assets and resources predicates its overall success. Companies that spend financial resources foolishly are apt to find themselves in bankruptcy. Companies that work capital equipment resources beyond the machine’s capabilities or for other than intended purposes are apt to experience downtime and/or lose the equipment to failure. The same premise holds true for a company’s human assets. However, unlike other company assets, which depreciate over time, human assets appreciate over time when managed properly. The article, Importance of Human Resource Investment for Organizations and Economy: A critical Analysis, explains the importance of managing human assets as follows:

     The manager interviewed for this assignment was Chief Warrant 3 Linwood Bowers, the Chief of the Personnel Support Directorate of the White House Communications Agency (WHCA). Chief Bowers has held his present position for four years. The focus of the interview was the unique challenges of good communication.

Business Administration The idea of studying business administration has appealed to me greatly and has encouraged me to further develop my education following this path. I have a keen enthusiasm to pursue a degree in Business Administration as I enjoy the challenges it sets and find the many different areas of business you are able to branch out into, very exciting! From research about the subject I'm expecting to greatly further my learning of how businesses operate and be able to then put my knowledge into practice. I am confident within myself and find communication with others easy.

chart is a summary of these skills and techniques of a manager in MNC in contrast of a manager

The first thing that one needs is to have people skills. How easy is it for you to talk and communicate with someone? Can you carry on a conversation with someone without having long awkward pauses? Those things are important to master because as a manager, they’ll have to communicate with different people in different circumstances often and they must give feedback to their

Skills: the manager should have personal skill to solve problems within the team, technical skills to fix technical problems occur during project. Project manager must be able to work under pressure and accurate estimating and cost control. Communication skills, collaboration skills, project management skills.

There are many tasks that a manager does on a daily basis which include problem solving, facilitating meetings, and many other routine office tasks. "Management is the process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals. Good managers do those things both effectively and efficiently." (Bateman & Snell, 2004)

WorldCom started in 1983 as a company as small company name Long Distance Discount Services proving long distance services to both business and residential customers. Over the years they grew to become one of the largest long distance provider and telecommunications company in the United States. It was consisted of over 85,000 employees at the strongest peak of business. The company was base in United States with branches in over 60 countries worldwide. In 1985, the company first went public and with its acquisition of numerous small and merger with MCI in 1997, WorldCom grew into a $30 billion enterprise and became one of the largest established telecommunication companies. WorldCom was admired by many as a company that was strong in growth and stability. As time went was it came to pass that the company was not as strong as others have thought and was a mere perception.