1. What Does It Take to Be an Effective Manager?

The purpose of this exercise is to help you get a firsthand picture of the role of a manager and the skills required to perform that job successfully.

Your assignment is to analyze managers who are employed full-time. You should use the questions below in your analyze, plus use others that you think might help you identify effective management skills. The purpose of these interviews is to give you a chance to learn about critical managerial skills from those who have to use them.

Keep written notes of your analyze. These notes should be as detailed as possible so you can reconstruct the analyze later. Be sure to keep a record of each persons job title and a brief description of his or her organization.

1. Please describe a typical day at work. What does a manager do all day?

2. What are the most critical problems a manager face?

3. What are the most critical skills needed to be a successful manager in line of work?

4. What are the major reasons managers fail in positions?

5. What are the outstanding skills or abilities of other effective managers you have

known?

6. If amanager had to train someone to replace him/heri n a managers current job, what key abilities

would she/he focus on?

7. On a scale of 1 (very rarely) to 5 (constantly), can you rate the extent to which

A manager use the following skills or behaviors during workday?