Every company needs effective leadership to help increase team work and reduce team conflict. A manager’s function will be in the same line as a parent’s role. You have people who are depending on you to make the correct decisions, but most of all, waiting on you to lead them, inspire them, motivate them, challenge them, and when they are not meeting expectations, to let them know.

These functions are some of the most important functions a manager can do, but few people are adequately trained to perform these tasks. Most of us learn by trial and error with different levels of successes. For the last six years, I managed over one hundred people. This was one of my most challenging tasks I have ever engaged in.

I have learned by trial and error on how to develop my human relations skills. The fortunate thing for me as a leader and a manager, I was able to learn quickly. Human relations skills are one of the most important skills a manager can possess. Your successwill be very limited if you are not able to get people to your way of thinking, and to be able to understand the different personalities that form your team, and on how best to utilized your team to achieve your objectives.

Managers and team members no longer can afford to be out for themselves, if they want to succeed. Teamwork and mutual respect will play key roles in any manager’s successes. When employees are happy, they are more productive and thus help increase profitability of the company. Some critical elements of the role of a manager are as follow:

Management: This is where you have to prioritized, allocate any resources, and manage time to ensure the work is completed on time.

Supervision: This is where your dealings are with individual and tasks.

Leadership: This is where you set the direction of the group. What is the purpose of the group, the strategic and tactical decision that will affect your organization, your bottom line?

Coaching: This is your ability to help trained your team members to develop the skills to do the job they were hired for.

A successful manager should also posses these four skills: Technical skills, human relations skills, conceptual skills and decision-making skills; I used to work in a very diverse environment, which had requires me to always be at the top of my leadership skills. Everyday was an adventure. The personalities of everyone at times seem so complex. Because of that, my way of motivating the team had to change depending on the group of individual I was addressing. Managing others is not the easiest task, but can be very rewarding if you are an effective leader. Those skills I mentioned above are necessary ingredients to do the job effectively.