Best Practices for Managers
Measures of overall Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Value
Rate yourself in the following areas using these criteria:
| Little: | You have little experience, limited training. |
| Some: | You know skills, but don't always practice them. |
| Skilled: | You use strategies because it makes sense to do this. |
| Expert: | You are exceptional. |
General Skills:
| 1. Technical-functional skills: Understands overall operations, roles, tools used, reports requirements and procedures of the company, industry, or current endeavor. | |
| 2. Managerial skills: has good HR skills for organizing work, prioritizing, scheduling, tracking workflow, and analyzing overall performance. | |
| 3. Interpersonal skills: skills essential in working with others in positive productive ways. |
Practice Skills:
| Practice #1 - Goal setting and getting results from others. | |
| Practice #2 - Clear and effective formal two-way communication skills (oral, writing, electronic). | |
| Practice #3 - Facilitative Leadership (makes problem solving easier, or more effective. | |
| Practice #4 - Runs meetings efficiently or participates well in meetings. | |
| Practice #5 - Gives and Receives Feedback well. | |
| Practice #6 - Promoting Teamwork and Team Accountability (follow through). | |
| Practice #7 - Control of Time and Key Details (monitoring workflow). | |
| Practice #8 - Prioritization of competing priorities and requirements. | |
| Practice #9 - Motivating others using different methods (links to interpersonal skill sets). | |
| Practice #10 - Cheerfulness and Support: Appropriate humor. | |
| Practice #11 - Integrating efforts on complex projects (cross organizational skills). | |
| Practice #12 - Resolving conflicts quickly. | |
| Practice #13 - Building Trust and maintaining commitments. | |
| Practice #14 - Mentoring Others (Succession Planning). | |
| Practice #15 - Working with outside entities or partners well. | |
| Practice #16 - Making intelligent decisions using the proper strategy. | |
| Practice #17 - Controlling emotional reactivity to events. |
After you have taken this assessment, discuss your development with your manager.