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What is management? Many people consider management as both art and science. Management is the art of helping people to be more effective in what they are doing to achieve the corporate objectives. Management is also the science of achieving corporate objectives. The principles of management are summarized in four words: plan, organize, execute, and monitor. Thus the function of management is the ensure the smooth operations of the whole organization to achieve the companies vision, mission, and goal.

Management think about effectiveness, efficiency, innovation, and productivity. To be effective, the company must focus on their core competencies to deliver high value products and services which the customers wants. It can be said as winning through competitive strategies. To be efficient, management must reduce all kinds of waste, focusing to use the scarce resources in the most efficient manner, and seeing time as the greatest value of all. To be innovative, management must taps the unique and personal skills of their employees because by aggregating the unique potentials of the employees for the achievement of companies strategic mission, the company will reap create huge progress. To be productive means that the company must create focus to create products and services which are in high demands by the markets and then market them successfully.

Management can be a complex science that combine many discipline of knowledge and understanding such as psychology, leadership, mathematic, time management, projects management, team building, achievement motivational, languages, marketing, computer science, culture, and many others. Management is dealing both with people and things. Therefore, to simplify the complex matter, here are basic management skills that you need to master:

Planning

Planning is crucial because it is through planning that time is used in the most effective, efficient, and productive ways to achieve the companies vision, mission, and objectives. Planning should be differentiated from mere plan. Planning is about how the actions are taken to ensure the achievement of objectives, it as about doing thing in strategic ways to ensure effectiveness. The importance of planning is the ensure that every actions which are taken are toward the achievement of corporate objectives, not against it. It is reasonable that you keep the track records of what you do to ensure that you are not heading toward the wrong direction.

In planning, you think logically to go where you want, to get to your destination in the best way possible. You figure out about how you can use the available resources in the most effective ways possible. You focus on using your strengths and eliminate or compensate the weaknesses. You think about how to hire a person of integrity and skillful to get the jobs done. You use forecasting to think about what will the future be like if execute this plan or that plan. You evaluate different plans and choose the best one available and then execute them quickly and effectively. You also figure out the worst possible scenario and consider what will work best in your situation and what will happen if it doesn’t work as planned.

Tip: It’s not about just plan, it about “action plan”, it’s the planning of your actions that make huge differences.

Organizing

You want to make things happen. You don’t want to stay where you are. That’s why you must organize all the available resources in the most intelligent manner. You recruit the right people, put them in the right place, and give them the rights jobs. You get things done through people. You both achieve the corporate objectives and help the individual to realize their full potential within the company. You create the winning team and get the jobs done in the most accurate timing. You directs your teams the get the highest value jobs done because you know that the most precious resources of all is time.

You equips the workers to do the best in their job. You motivate them through various incentive. You give the equipments needed to get the jobs done. You ensure that the company run smoothly in creating products and services that best serve the customers. You balance the short and long terms achievements of goals. You create appropriate schedule of execution of plan to ensure systematic progress of your company. You delegate what can be delegate so that you can focus on your most important jobs at hand.

You make sure that everything are executed based on plan. You check everything to ensure progress and success. You understand your role and your employees understand their role. You orchestrate the people and jobs between roles and goals. You make sure that everyone in the company understand their roles and goals and motivate them to effectively get the jobs done. Use use progress chards to make sure that everything work toward the achievements of company’s objectives.

Directing

Now your goal is to make sure that everything work well as planned and progress are made. You are conducting an orchestra. Everyone must play their parts so that the music will sound great. Everyone know which parts of music they must play during the hold sessions of the orchestra. You are the conductor that give codes about when to start and when to stop certain parts of the music. The conductor ensure that each musician plays their part well based on the music sheets.

You’ve given the music sheet to play which is the plan, the musicians to play the music which are the employees, the section which are the department within your company, and you’ve organized each section so that everyone will work perfectly on the music stage. Now what you need to do is to stand in the podium with your baton and instructed each part to play their distinct instruments based on the music sheet.

Monitoring.

Managing people is not easy. People are not robot. Psychological factors play a great deal. That’s why learning and applying the theory of psychology can give you great benefits in your managerial jobs.

You need to keep an eye on how things are get done and make sure that everything works toward the achievement of corporate vision, mission and goals. When things don’t work as plan you step in and make some adjustment. You solve problems that come along the way. You create an atmosphere that motivate people to do their best. You streamline the process to ensure that everything will work out as planned. You develop a contingency plan to ensure that if one thing does work out, you have the alternative to work it out so that your long term objective still can be achieved. You make all the adjustments required. When something is out sync, you redirect the organization and reorganize the resources so that it will continue making progress. You continue monitor the change to ensure the achievement of both short terms and long terms goal.

Managing people and resources toward the achievement of both corporate and individual objective is not something easy yet it is very rewarding experiences. Remember that managerial skills, abilities, and competencies are something that can be studied, applied, and improved.

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Leading and Managing People at Workplace

Using Information Technology as E-Learning Tools

Information technology or IT refers to a broad field encompassing software, hardware, computers and networks, communication infrastructure and technologies such as regular telephony, cellular networks, satellite communication, broadcasting media, and other forms of communication. Learning using the latest technological development can be means learning using:

• Presentation, demonstration, and the manipulation of data using productivity tools.

• Use of curriculum-specific applications types such as educational games, drill and practice, simulations, tutorials, virtual laboratories, visualizations and graphical representations of abstract concepts,musical composition, and expert systems.

• Use of information and resources on CD-ROM or online such as encyclopedia, interactive maps and atlases, electronic journals and other references.

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Media Integrity. Data stored in analog formats cannot be reproduced without degradation. The more copies made, the worse the copies get. Digital data, on the other hand, do not suffer such deterioration with reproduction. For instance, movies, videos, music and audio files in digital format can be copied and distributed with a quality that is as good as the original.

Media Integration. One of the major limitations of many conventional technologies is their inability to combine media types. Telephones, for example, can send and receive only sound. Similarly, you can’t watch television and expect a character to answer a question you pose. However, with digital data, it is easy to combine media. Thus, phones with video, or interactive sound with pictures, become possible. Hence the term multimedia.

Flexible Interaction. The digital domain supports a great variety of interactions, including one-on-one conferences, one-to-many broadcasts, and everything in between. In addition, these interactions can be synchronous and in real time.

Transactions. The ability to combine the transactional capability of computers and computer networks with digital media is another interactive advantage of the digital domain. Placing an order and finalizing a transaction becomes as easy as filling in an electronic form and clicking a button. Movies-on-demand (where you pay for movies that you choose to watch on your TV screen) is just around the corner.

Tailoring. Software developed for digital communications and interaction is designed so that users may tailor their use of the tool and the media in a manner not possible with conventional analog technologies.

Editing. The conventional alternatives for manipulating text, sound, images, and video are almost always more cumbersome or limited than the new digital tools. Years ago, Francis Ford Coppola said that the day would come when his young daughter will take a home video camera and make films that would win film awards. Coppola’s prediction is fast becoming a reality. Computers with the right software and minimal hardware can do today what thousands of dollars worth of film and video editing equipment did in the past decades.

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Business Plan.

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To succeed in business you must think clearly, logically, effectively, accurately, and strategically. Business requires many kinds of efforts. You need to have a working business plan. You must know what you are doing to ensure that you do the best and make progress. Your most important resources are time and opportunities. You need to understand how to make the most of high value opportunities when they are available.

Time is your ultimate asset. You do your very best to use your time to create progress in your business. You apply the most effective business concept which are suitable to your circumstances. You make decision quickly yet accurately. You keep on improving the business process to ensure that your business is not falling down but growing. You keep your cool to always make the most accurate decision based on the current situation and still you have clear perspective about the future of your business. You think clearly and logically to advance your business toward the next level. You continuously sharpen your skills, abilities, and expertise about how to do the business successfully.

You are not working alone. You have a winning team that support the quick achievement of your goals. You work together with your team to create high value products and services which are needed by the market. You first think about the available markets and do your best to seize that market. You are market oriented. You create high quality products and services which are in huge demand by the markets. You give high quality after-sales services to ensure that you can retain your customers. You understand that a great business is based on excellent customers services.

You keep learning about the marketplace. You learn about the current trends in business. You read business journal to keep abreast about the current business environment so that you can make accurate business decision.

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Learn.
I love learning English.
Learning English is fun.
I can improve my English by listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English.
I open up the dictionary to understand the meaning of a word.
I learn to speak by talking in English with friends.
I learn to write by writing simple sentences in English.
I learn to listen by listening to various kinds of interesting music.
I learn English Grammar by doing some Grammar Exercises.
There are many ways that I can use to improve my English.
The key to my success in learning English is diligence, discipline, and consistency.
I learn English every day.
I learn English by attending quality English courses in my town.
I want to learn from the best teachers.
The best teachers are those who have excellent expertise in English.
I also learn English by using the internet access.
There are many English lessons provided online.
Learning English online can be fun.

Improve.
If you really want to improve your English, consider the following questions.
What do you do to improve your English?
Do you learn English regularly in discipline and consistent manner?
Do you learn English in the most effective, creative and productive ways?
Do you learn how to speak well in English?
Do you open up the dictionary whenever you find new words that you don’t know?
Do you read quality English books to sharpen your reading skills?
Do you learn to talk in English by communicating in English with your learning partner?
How do you improve your English?
What are you willing to do to master the English language?
These are all crucial questions than need to be answered if you want to improve your English.
Just do your best to improve your English.

Conversation

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Online Foreign Languages Courses

Your English is so good. Where do you learn English?

I learn English at home.
I learn using the internet access.
There are many English lessons online.
You can learn it effectively using internet access.
There are many online language courses.
You don’t need to attend bricks and mortar languages school.
Online language courses are available in abundance.
Some event give English certificate.
Of course, to get English certificate you must pay and follow all the courses,
do the test, and then they will send you the certificate.
Online English Courses are convenient ways to improve your English.

Yes, I agree with you.
Internet technology is becoming more-and-more sophisticated.
Online learning is now becoming popular.
For a busy persons, time is their rare commodity.
They want to achieve more with less time.

I think internet is quickly becoming part of the standard of living.
Accessing internet is becoming cheaper.
The cost of acquiring a computer less expensive.
We witness astonishing progress that will affect many people.
I think we must take an active part in the new system of world order.

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Effective Ways to Succeed in Life
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101 Conversation # 2

What are the keys to success?

Think about success as the ability and self discipline to get the highest value jobs done. Have you set and achieve high value goals? Do you invest your time on high value activities or do you waste your time by doing low value activities? It’s a matter of self-discipline in setting your priority right. Do you regularly set the priority about what matter most in life? Think about it! What will you do to turn your dreams into reality? What will you do to make your life meaningful. Have you set and achieve high value goals?

Please explain about setting and achieving high value goals?

It’s a matter of focus and concentration. It is easy to waste your time but it is difficult to use your time on high value activities. Focus and concentration to get the highest value jobs done will help you to make the most of the time. Without focus and concentration you will tend to waste your time. It is easy to do low value activities, but it require discipline to focus and concentrate on high value activities that will give you the desirable results.

Is success difficult or easy to achieve?

It will be difficult for you to succeed in this life if you are not discipline yourself to make the most of the time by setting your priority right. If you keep on doing the same thing you will reap the same results. If you want to reap different results then you must do different kinds of things. You must begin with the paradigm that to to transform your life you must do something which are totally new, something that can bring you to the new height. To reap great results, you must do great things. Success is easy for those who have the discipline to get the highest value jobs done by setting and achieving highest value goals. If you have great habits, you will have great life.

What must I do to succeed in this life then?

Positive and empowering habits is the key to real success. What are your habits? Do you have positive and empowering habits. Replace the bat habits with good ones. Make a list of your daily habits and then replace all those bad habits with great habits that can transform your life. Be decisive in your actions. Use the power of focus and concentration to get the highest value jobs done today and everyday. Today is best time to begin! Remember that the key to success is focus and concentration to get the highest value jobs done successfully.

Why today?

Always remember that there is nothing you can do about your past and future but there are tons of things that you can do about today’s time. You cannot go back to the past and the best way to shape your future is through what you are doing at the present. If you keep on doing your best at the present you will certainly will reap great results at the future. But if you are not in the habits of doing high value activities, you will squander most of your time for nothing. The key to success is in investment. Time is your most precious asset. Invest your time by doing things that can make huge differences.

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101 English Conversation # 2.

Effective Leadership Principles
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What is Effective Leadership?

Effective leadership is about having empowering vision and mission and then translate those vision and mission into actions plan so that those vision and mission can be realized. How can you be a good leader if you don’t have such an empowering vision and mission to inspire your followers? You can be a good leader only if you have something better in your mind already and communicate those vision and mission to your follower.

How to inspire the followers to follow the leader?

The leader must already something which is clear in his/her mind eyes. It is something that far better than the present condition and the ability to translate the leader’s empowering vision and mission into massive and coordinated actions. The leaders must have the ability to communicate the vision and mission in such effective way and therefore enable the followers to do the right things to achieve those vision and mission. Good leader is a good communicator.

How to be a good communicator?

To be a good communicator you must be a good listener. Great leaders have the ability to listen and understand the aspiration of the followers. When the leaders are willing to listen, the followers will feel appreciated. Building rapport between leaders and followers in the essential first steps. A good leader is a good listener.

What Do You Mean by Empowering Leadership?

Empowering leadership is the leadership principles that enable the followers to achieve their the collective potential and at the same time contribute to the achievement of individual potential. The key to empowering leadership is the ability to balance between achieving the collective potential and individual potential. In this case, a leader must understand the uniqueness of each individual then use that uniqueness to achieve the collective goals. Balancing individual and collective needs is the factor that will empower tho followers to get the jobs done.

What are the principles of effective leadership?

Leader must be honest and straight forward. A good leader must make the decision based on the true-north principles. Everything that a leader do will be judged by the followers. A good leader will lead by giving the example, by walking the talk, by making and keeping promises. Integrity is the number one principle in effective leadership. You can be a great leader if you are a man of integrity who can keep the promise you’ve made. You must lead by giving great examples to your followers. You simply cannot ask your followers to quit smoking if you are smoking.

Thank you very much for giving us great ideas about effective leadership principles.

It’s my pleasure to share with you about effective leadership principle.

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