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What It Takes To Survive a Management Job

Posted By: Staff Editor In: Career Goals and Motivation
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If you want to apply for a management job, the power to persuade is one of your most important skills; without it, you’ll have a tough time motivating your employees to work with you toward common goals. In your management job, you'll need to convince your team that company goals are worthy of their hard work and attention. It’s an unwritten part of the management job description—in order to lead a group of people, you must first persuade them. The Philadelphia job market is full of good and bad examples in management; but you can be one of the good ones by leading by example.

That means sometimes taking on a job nobody wants to do—when you show your team you are willing to get your hands dirty, they can't complain the next time you delegate that unpleasant task. Another aspect of managerial persuasion runs in the opposite direction—convincing your superiors to see the error of their ways when they ask things of your team they truly don’t have the manpower or the skills to accomplish. For the good manager, persuasion works in both directions—towards labor and management alike.



 
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