To be successful, there are many skills a manager needs to master. I adapted Kammy Hatnes' pyramid structure to show the increasingly difficult management skills you must master at each level and to also display how these management skills build on each other to help you achieve success in your management career. The result is the Management Skills Pyramid.
F. John Reh is a business management expert, with more than 30 years of experience in the field. As a writer and journalist over the past 17+ years, he has
F. John Reh is a business management expert, with more than 30 years of experience in the field. As a writer and journalist over the past 17+ years, he has covered business management for The Balance. During his 30-year career, from project manager to vice president, he worked in the fields of engineering and construction, applied scientific research, design and architecture, e-commerce, and more.
To be successful, there are many skills a manager needs to master. I adapted Kammy Hatnes' pyramid structure to show the increasingly difficult management skills you must master at each level and to also display how these management skills build on each other to help you achieve success in your management career. The result is the Management Skills Pyramid shown here. Each level of the Management Skills Pyramid is listed below and is discussed in more detail on the linked pages.
After you have mastered the basic skills in level 1, you need to move on and develop your skills on Level 2 of the Management Skills Pyramid. These are the management skills that you use to develop your staff. There are many specific skills required, and these are discussed in Level 2 of the Management Skills Pyramid, but they are grouped into these categories:
Motivation
Training and Coaching
Employee Involvement
The Management Skills Pyramid, Level 3
When you have become skilled in developing your staff, it's time to focus onLevel 3 of the Management Skills Pyramid, improving your own development. These management skills are grouped as:
Self Management and
Time Management
Time management gets its own category because it is so important to your success in all the other skills.
The Management Skills Pyramid, Top Level
The peak of the Management Skills Pyramid, the single skill that will help you the most in developing success in your management career, is leadership. As you develop your skill as a leader, as you make the transition from manager to leader, you will achieve the success you truly want in your management career.
