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Management Introduction

The document discusses the importance of mastering basic management and leadership skills for new businesses to grow successfully. It identifies the core skills as problem solving, decision making, planning, delegation, communication, meeting management, and self-management. These basics provide the foundation for more advanced practices and are often overlooked when organizations struggle. The module aims to help learners achieve these fundamental skills and optionally review more advanced topics to develop their management abilities.

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Management Introduction

The document discusses the importance of mastering basic management and leadership skills for new businesses to grow successfully. It identifies the core skills as problem solving, decision making, planning, delegation, communication, meeting management, and self-management. These basics provide the foundation for more advanced practices and are often overlooked when organizations struggle. The module aims to help learners achieve these fundamental skills and optionally review more advanced topics to develop their management abilities.

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INTRODUCTION

In new businesses, "management" is often considered "whatever needs to be done just to


keep things afloat". However, for your business to grow and remain healthy, you must master
certain basic skills in management and leadership -- skills that will help you avoid the crisis
situations where you have to do "whatever it takes to stay afloat". The basic skills include
problem solving and decision making, planning, meeting management, delegation,
communications and managing yourself.
Those basics are also the foundation from which to develop more advanced practices in
management and leadership. When organizational personnel struggle, it's often because
they've forgotten the basics -- not because they aren't implementing state-of-the-art
techniques in management and leadership.
NOTE ABOUT THE LARGE SIZE OF THIS MODULE: This module references numerous basic
skills that leaders and managers must master in order to be effective in their organizations
and their lives. These skills can be practiced throughout this program and in other areas of
learners' lives. Readers who are interested in gaining broader contexts of management and
leadership can review optional readings suggested in the "Materials for Review" section below.
NOTE ABOUT ORDER OF MODULES: Therefore, it is common to start management training
programs with an overview of the board of directors (if the program includes focus on
corporations, which are governed by boards of directors) -- the board of directors is legally
charged to govern a corporation. However, in this program, this learning module about basic
skills in management and leadership is presented before the learning module about boards of
directors. The reason for this order of modules is as follows. Frequently businesses are started
by someone with a strong vision for a new product. That person often goes on to become the
first chief executive of the new business. Typically, that person also takes a very strong role
(often the leading role) in the initial organization and development of the board of directors.
Therefore, modules in this program are organized to help the founder (and often the first chief
executive) to effectively apply basic skills in management and leadership when organizing the
board of directors.
NOTE ABOUT LEARNING SUPERVISION -- Supervision is a major aspect of managing and
leading. There are certain roles and responsibilities -- and experiences -- that are highly
unique to the role of supervision and highly critical to the success of the organization.
Therefore, the topic of staffing and supervision will also be addressed in an upcoming module
in this program.

OUTCOMES
Learners who complete this module will achieve the following outcomes:
Gain Basic Skills in:

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Problem Solving and Decision Making


Planning
Delegation
Internal Communications
Meeting Management
Managing Yourself

Optional:
1. Review Advanced Topics in Management and Leadership
2. Design Your Management and Leadership Development Plans

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