Management Skills Learning And Development

To successfully run healthcare organizations, healthcare administrators must possess various complementary abilities. While interning at the administration office at the St. Vincent Jennings Hospital, I have learned a variety of skills that will be essential to my future career. The three domains of skills include communication, professionalism, and knowledge of a healthcare environment.

As a graduate with 3 years management experience in a customer facing and fast paced environment, I believe that my skills, background and qualifications are tailored to fit this role. I want to contribute and create a platform for growth in an area that I am familiar with and see my future career in. Currently working as a Health Care Assistant at King George Hospital, Dahlia ward and I can say that the NHS is a great organisation. I admire the development and support that I am getting. I want to offer my experience in this field to bring new ideas to the organisation as well as learn and experience what HR in the health sector can offer.

Managerial roles have to do so much research in order to keep up that it’s hard with all of the ever changing healthcare field (Nicol, 2012). The skills for management and effective leadership are very broad and numerous. As leaders emerge their role is reliant on working on relationships more than personal traits of one’s self, (Swanwick and McKimm, 2011). A manager brings simplicity to complexity and makes an organization or process understandable, (Nicol, 2012). Management is more of the mind, a matter of calculations and statistics, time tables and routines, and its practices is a science (Nicol,

In my personal mission to receive a Master’s of Science degree in Human Resources Administration, I want to be a strong leader at my organization. I would like to remain in the healthcare industry, as it is constantly changing and evolving. This career path suits my interests because I enjoy challenges, influencing change in organizations and developing employees. I have gained experience and knowledge that I want to continue to share with others to help in developing themselves personally and professionally to reach their goals while meeting the bottom-line of the organization. To effectively manage the workforce of today and the future, leaders will need to build and maintain trust within their teams. In addition, my mission includes a dedication to networking and learning. This will enable me to build relationships and sharpen my skill sets. I chose this career path because I feel a career and skill set in leadership are often most challenging however, very rewarding. Moreover, leadership is a skill that is transferrable to other organizations.

3) In today's global environment, managers must have a(n) ________ attitude in order to be successful.

Managerial effectiveness is a crucial element in the running of any business. Being a good manager does not just mean you can meet the goals of the company, it is all about being able to manage your staff in the most proactive way you can. In this course I have read about how important verbal communication is to be a good manager, the need to be able to manage your time as a manager, and how being able to empower your employees and delegating tasks can allow a company to run smooth. Theodore Roosevelt said it best, “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” I have gained some very important and helpful knowledge

Self assessment plays an important role in our life because it helps us to identify the strengths and weaknesses of our personality. Based on these identifications, not only we can try to improve on them but we can also set goals of our life according to our strengths. Once the goal is set, and we start working towards achieving it, the periodic self assessment helps us in monitoring our progress. This report describes the phases of analysing and developing me as a manager based on the results of self assessment tasks.

One of the reasons why big companies started decades or centuries ago still currently exist today is its effective managerial skills. By having effective managerial skills, companies were able to continue and expand its current operations in its niche and other markets and surpass easy-level problems up to tremendous challenges brought by continuous changing needs of our society today. These effective managerial skills were possessed by key people of companies like their C-level managers or the top-level executives and middle-level managers for them to be able to reach their ultimate goal: economic profit.

According to John et al. (2010), a skill is an ability to transfer knowledge into action to achieve expected performance. Manager requires managerial skills to carry out specific managerial tasks in the organizations. Robert L.Katz (1974) has classified essential managerial skills into three categories: technical, human and conceptual.

To be a good manager, it is imperative to understand the difference between power and influence. In Yukl’s book, Skills for Managers and Leaders, power is defined as “the potential of one person (the agent) to exert influence on another person (the target) and it stems from some type of dependency of the target person on the agent” (Yukl, 1990). While power is an important part of being a manager, understanding the power of influence is essential. “Influence is necessary to sell your ideas, to gain acceptance of your policies or plans and to motivate others to implement your decisions” (Yukl, 1990). There are three main outcomes that occur when a manager is attempting to be influential: commitment, compliance and, resistance.

‘‘Competency-based strategic management is a relatively new way of thinking about how organizations gain high performance for a significant period of time. Established as a theory in the early 1990s, competence-based strategic management theory explains how organizations can develop sustainable competitive advantage in a systematic and structural way. The theory of competence-based strategic management is an integrative strategy theory that incorporates economic, organizational and behavioural concerns in a framework that is dynamic, systemic, cognitive and holistic (Sanchez and Heene, 2004). This theory defines competence as: the ability to sustain the coordinated deployment of resources in ways that helps an organization

Day today management is clearly defined by F.W. Taylor, Henry Fayol, Ma Weber, and others in classical management. No organisation can just have one type of management all through the organisation like operation can be scientific management and task oriented leadership. Marketing can be administrative and with action centred leadership. The overall leadership should be the same has the ethos of the organisation overall. . Current theories and models of leadership explain the influence of position upon the satisfaction and performance

The world of management is changing at an unprecedented rate which places pressure on managers to adapt in order to cope with the challenges that emerge. A manager responsible for leading a Learning Focused Organisation in the 21st Century should possess some important skills, knowledge and attributes (SKAs) to lead an organisation effectively. Ten SKAs will be looked at with supporting evidence demonstrating their importance to managers in a fast moving world.

In organizations there are different kinds of managers. They could be categorised into the following. (Figure 1)

One of the best ways to transform an organisation is through corporate training. Corporate training, particularly for managers, is the ideal way to develop and implement strategies and incorporate structure and standardisation. Managers who are well trained are better at making decisions, more productive, and notably astute at enhancing their employees’ professional growth and development. Continuous training helps managers feel more equipped to do their jobs and more confident in their ability to carry out the company’s mission and values.