Management Skills Matrix In order to help you become a more effective manager it’s important you understand your strengths and weaknesses.

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The matrix below can help with this. Score yourself against each item, indicating where you feel your skills, knowledge and behaviour fall (1 low, 5 high). There’s room to add more skills that may be specific to your job or industry, too.

Skills Comment 1 2 3 4 5Communication

Well organised

Time management

Delegation

ICT

Motivation of people

Develop/support team

Effective interpersonal skills

Coaching/mentoring skills

Train staff

Problem solving

Managing multiple projects

Leadership

Knowledge Comment 1 2 3 4 5Setting SMART results

How people learn

Resource planning

Prepare and manage budgets

Health and safety

Understanding team roles and utilising teams to the maxi-mum

Customer service

Conducting performance review

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MA

NA

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FORM

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STRATEGIC PLANNING EFFECTIV

E MA

NA

GEM

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DEV

ELOPING PEOPLE CULTURE AND COM

M

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N

64%

92%

80%100%

100%

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NA

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FORM

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STRATEGIC PLANNING EFFECTIV

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NA

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Behaviour Comment 1 2 3 4 5Confident

Caring

Challenging

Entrepreneurial

Enthusiastic

Innovative

Persuasive

Realistic

“Can do”

Encouraging of others

Enterprising

Persistent

Assertive

Giving praise and recognition

Constructive reprimand