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Management Skills

Project Management · Level 5  ·  4 Chapters

Compiled by: Grace Nganga

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What Management Skills covers

The four functions every project lead needs are the content of Management Skills in Project Management Level 5. Planning covers goals and objectives, work plans, monitoring, the planning process, barriers to planning and management by objectives. Organizing covers office tasks and responsibilities, authority and responsibility, delegation and organisation structures. Directing covers orders, staff supervision, leadership roles, theories and styles. Coordinating covers work schedules, roles and responsibilities, and rewards and recognition.

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Careers after Management Skills

This unit covers planning, organizing, directing and coordinating in the work of a project team lead.

  • Project support offices in county governments in Embu - set goals and objectives, make work plans and monitor progress.
  • Construction firm site offices in Kitale - assign tasks and responsibilities, delegate authority and monitor progress.
  • Programme management units in Naivasha - give orders, supervise staff and apply a leadership style.
  • Event and logistics firms in Kericho - prepare work schedules, define roles and recognise teams.
  • Administration offices of training centres in Narok - apply the planning process and organisation structures to a small team.
  • Project offices of agricultural programmes in Kisumu - explain organisation structures and delegate tasks and responsibilities to team members.
  • Youth project groups in Bungoma - set goals and objectives, make work plans and follow the planning process step by step.

Have an example ready of how you assigned and tracked a task for a small team.

Chapters

1
Apply planning principle
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2
Apply organizing principle
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3
Apply directing principle
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4
Apply coordinating principle
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What Management Skills covers: 29 main topics in 4 chapters

1. Apply planning principle

  1. 1.1 Goals and objectives
  2. 1.2 Work plans
  3. 1.3 Monitoring of work progress
  4. 1.4 Principles of planning
  5. 1.5 Steps in planning process
  6. 1.6 Barriers to planning
  7. 1.7 Guidelines to avoiding barriers
  8. 1.8 Management by objectives
  9. 1.9 Types of plans

2. Apply organizing principle

  1. 2.1 Office goals and objectives
  2. 2.2 Office tasks and responsibilities
  3. 2.3 Monitoring of progress
  4. 2.4 Process of organization
  5. 2.5 Organizing components
  6. 2.6 Authority and responsibility
  7. 2.7 Organization structures
  8. 2.8 Delegation
  9. 2.9 Centralization and decentralization
  10. 2.10 Principles of organization

3. Apply directing principle

  1. 3.1 Orders and instructions
  2. 3.2 Staff Supervision
  3. 3.3 Exchange of opinions and ideas
  4. 3.4 Characteristics of successful leaders
  5. 3.5 Leadership roles
  6. 3.6 Theories
  7. 3.7 Leadership styles

4. Apply coordinating principle

  1. 4.1 Work schedules creation
  2. 4.2 Roles and responsibilities
  3. 4.3 Rewards and recognition

Revise this unit

Exam-style questions 56 Written to CDACC standard, with answers Test yourself 117 Multiple-choice, one at a time Practise questions 60 Quick recall — check you know the facts
3 more for this unit
Oral exam preparation 26 What the assessor asks, and how to answer out loud Worked calculations 14 Step-by-step maths with the common mistakes Quick cards 597 Myth busters, skill tips and scenarios

Beyond the syllabus

Decision simulator 3 On site, what would you do? Workplace scenarios 61 Real site situations — what would you do? Turn this into income 36 Where this skill earns — what to charge, how to find clients

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