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Management Skills

Project Management · Level 6  ·  4 Chapters

Compiled by: Alice Njoroge

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What Management Skills covers

Planning a project's work, organising its people, directing them and coordinating their effort are each a function in Management Skills, Project Management Level 6. You set organisational goals, make work plans and monitor progress. You define office goals, assign tasks and responsibilities and track how organising is going. You give orders and instructions, supervise staff and encourage the exchange of ideas. You create work schedules, define roles and recognise teams.

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Careers after Management Skills

This unit covers setting goals and work plans, assigning tasks and responsibilities, giving instructions and supervising staff, and scheduling work and recognising teams in project management.

  • Project management offices in Garissa - define goals, create work plans and monitor progress.
  • Community-based programmes in Bungoma - assign tasks and define responsibilities.
  • Project units of training institutions in Kajiado - supervise staff and give clear orders and instructions.
  • Conference organisers in Malindi - create work schedules and recognise teams for delivery.
  • Cooperative project offices in Kakamega - facilitate the exchange of opinions and ideas, and define individual roles.
  • Project offices of training centres in Nyeri - set office goals, track how the organising of tasks is going and keep staff informed.
  • Church and community project committees in Kisii - create work schedules, define roles and responsibilities and supervise volunteers.

Choose one task you planned and delegated and be ready to explain how you checked its progress.

Chapters

1
Apply planning principle
28 topics
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2
Apply organizing principle
13 topics
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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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