Five questions for looking at your management skills

These questions are the starting point for your professional and personal development. They include the main elements of effective management

1. Strategic and creative strand
How do I need to be thinking in this situation? How am I seeing the future?

2. Technical strand
What do I need to do or know about technically? Do I need any training or development? How do I plan to get it?

3. Commercial or business strand
What do I need to be aware of in the business sense?
Do I need more information about costs, budgets, resources, turnover? How will I get it?

4. Interpersonal strand
Which people or groups do I need to be able to influence? How do I plan to do it? What do I need to learn?

5. Personal strand
What do I need to understand about myself? What are my patterns of thinking? How do I plan to develop?