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Developing Management Skills
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Greg Procknow
Greg is the Principle for Intrinsic Non-Profit Training, which provides a variety of training and development services to not-for-profit organizations and their volunteers respectively. Greg has also been working in leadership roles for the last five years. Currently Greg is working for Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and works extensively with the Canadian Cancer Society. Greg can be reached at greg@trainingvolunteers.ca, or visit www.trainingvolunteers.ca 
By Greg Procknow
Published on 05/7/2010
 

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.