http://www.careerdiagnostics.com en-us N/A webmaster@careerdiagnostics.com Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:23:55 PDT 20 http://www.careerdiagnostics.com/articles/60/1/Developing-Management-Skills/Page1.html Management development is an effort (effectively planned) that will enhance both the learner’s (hopeful manager) capacity and capabilities to manage an organization and quite possibly themselves. The most frequently cited skills of effective managers are: effective and concise communication; problem definition, identification, solving; and influencing and ultimately motivating others. Much of these aforementioned skills can be taught through training and development programs. Management development envelops the idea of training, in order for management development to occur there needs to be some sort of training in place, often offered by the company they are employed by.

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Career Diagnostics is pleased to bring you a range of self assessment and reflection tools to guide your personal development.

Job Satisfaction - Self Assessment
Herzberg proposes that job satisfaction is composed of 2 elements; "hygeine factors" and "motivation" factors.  Hygeine factors relate to base level, administrative factors such as pay, work environment and other benefits or facilities associated with the job.  Motivation factors are more aligned with factors such as the degree of autonomy and decision making capacity associated with a job.  This short 15 item survey covers both hygeine and motivation factors.

Holmes-Rahe Social Readjustment Scale
How [dis]stressed are you?  Complete this questionnaire to find out your risk of stress-related illness.

Personal Resilience Assessment Tool
How resilient are you when it comes to dealing with the pressures, tensions and stresses of life?  Use this Personal Resilience Assessment Tool to discover more about why you may respond the way you do.

M.U.S.E. Survey
Research suggests that women bring a different "mix" of qualities to leadership than that brought to leadership by men. These qualities associated more strongly with women, are also increasingly seen as more suited to a changing workplace. Can this be so?

Locus Of Control
The Rotter Internal-External Control Scale measures our sense of control over self and life events. Higher scores suggest individual empowerment, whereas lower scores tend to suggest a tendency toward feelings of helplessness, or at the extreme, victimisation.

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