Career Plan Building Activities
Management 521
January 14, 2013
Steve Wernick

Career Plan Building Activities

Discuss the ways in which understanding your personal competencies will help you to become a better communicator and manager.

A person’s competency in general forms part of the way he or she operates in a working environment. A manager with a good working knowledge of his or her own competencies understands their strengths and weaknesses. A manager of this caliber knows that understand his or her own strengths and weaknesses will communicate a better working relationship with his or subordinates. A good manager has the skills to work as a team, plan strategically, and has developed organizational skills. Good managers are leader and know how to apply his or her competencies in any professional setting thereby leading by example.

How might you need to change your communication techniques to work with the different functioning areas of your business?

The four functional areas of business are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Most successful projects began with a manager and a vision to accomplish a particular project successfully. The project manager begins with a plan. A plan is a roadmap to follow to achieve mission accomplishment. Organization of the project spells out who, what, and how a project is to be accomplished as well as the sequence of events, and who is responsible for what. Leading involve previously designated people for manager to go to resolve issues concerning the project. Controlling involves the monitoring and evaluating stages of the project to ensure timely mission accomplish. The communication techniques changes because of the various types of management projects.

Which competencies should you specifically focus on to adapt your communication techniques? A good