List of skills you need as a manager

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### What skills do you need (to develop) as an EM

- Time management
    - You will have too many meetings and too much work to do
        - Prioritisation
    - Personal organisation
        - Notion
- Coaching: helping people generate and coalesce ideas; helping people solve problems for themselves; rubber ducking
- Mentoring: passing on skills and helping others to develop them -whether they are technical, organisational, or interpersonal
- Giving feedback
- Project management: tracking work, predicting timelines and spotting obstacles
- Navigating uncertainty
- Solving problems by connecting other people
- Communicating effectively with upper management
    - Giving succinct but sufficient information for them to review and approve your work or intentions
- Communicating effectively with your team
    - Basic stuff like recording important meetings and duplicating messages in a suitable written format
    - Expressing things in a way that won't be misinterpreted
    - Planning how to deliver big news
    - Not shutting down ideas
        - This is impossible to do perfectly.
        - It's a real mindset skill to spot possibilities and grow them into actionable items.
        - Every time I'm about to explain why something is why it is, and someone else pipes up with a comment that opens it up for discussion I kick myself mentally
- Developing your reports' skills and getting them promoted
- Finding opportunities for yourself and for your reports
- Dealing with stress: your output is, in the larger part, that of your team.
    - If something on your team goes wrong, it's your fault, regardless