Management Skills

Read the following paragraph and indicate which management skill is described.

Sergeant Fox tried to visualize, examine, consider, realize, and reflect on the factors involved to accomplish his mission. He knew he would have a lot of work to do before anything actually got accomplished. He had to define the squad's objective, study the situation, list and examine possible courses of action, and select the course of action that would accomplish his objective.

• Planning

• Organizing

• Coordinating

• Controlling

Though it may be in written or spoken form, leaders manage their people by directing them. A leader who needs someone to do something that they cannot require them to do is actually asking them for assistance. Which type of directing is this?

• Demanding

• Requesting

• Suggesting

• Volunteering

What is the most important resource available to a leader?

• Time

• Money

• Material

• People

Management skills can be divided into two phases of a project, __________.

• preparation and implementation

• organization and execution

• preparation and execution

• organization and implementation

T or F: All good leaders are good managers.

• True

• False

As leaders move up the chain of command, they typically have __________.

• less resources under their direct control

• less responsibility for overall performance

• less face-to-face contact with all the people under their command

Which of the following is NOT a time-saving strategy?

• demanding perfection

• setting goals

• examining old habits

• using a calendar

__________ means to set aside or assign for a specific purpose.

• Allocate

• Iterate

• Procrastinate

• Accommodate

The word iterate describes the process of _______.

• postponing tasks until the last minute

• determining the order of tasks to be accomplished

• managing projects in a structured way

• repeating steps to revise or improve outcomes

Procrastinate means to __________.

• postpone a task because of a scheduling conflict

• delay doing something because you do not want to do it

• stop doing something because you found another person to do it for you

• postpone a task because you don't know how to do it