The need to assess management style, the significance of feedback, the role of good communication and the need to minimise harmful conflict.

Essay by debbysutcliffeCollege, Undergraduate January 2004

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Introduction:

Most organisations recognise that in today's business climate, survival depends upon workforce capability and specifically, the quality of leadership and management. This places emphasis on key leadership and management qualities and the need for organisations to be highly proactive identifying and developing their leadership talent. It is also essential that the individual managers can identify their individual abilities and limitations as well as those of their colleagues. In order to do this they must be able to perform a skills audit and use it's results as a foundation for improving performance.

For managers to improve their managerial skills continuous personal development should take place. It is true that managerial skills are mostly obtained through experience however continuous personal development can improve them. Through personal development a manager can improve his productivity, increase his effectiveness and discover new and maybe more effective ways of running the organisation.

Throughout this assignment I aim to confirm my understanding of the need to assess management style, the significance of feedback, the role of good communication and the need to minimise harmful conflict.

An overview of the need to assess your management style, knowledge and skills to plan for future development

One of the greatest attributes of a good manager is their ability to manage people, because business managers only achieve their results through people.

For this reason, both personal and interpersonal skills are vital. An understanding of self and others and how people work and work together is fundamental in being able to practise effective people management.

It is therefore essential that you regularly assess your management style, knowledge and skills and use the results of these assessments to produce development plans to enhance and expand your management skills.

By using recognised assessment tools we can recognise and understand the differences between leadership...