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People Management

Skills

People Skills - Importance

15 %

Personal Strength
People Management Skills

85 %

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People Management Skills

Communication
Rapport Building
Influencing
Motivating
Performance
Management
Leadership

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Communication

What is Comunication
Process of transmission of
Ideas, Feelings, Messages etc.
from sender to receiver
in such a way that
receiver understands .

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Understanding
Formula for Understanding

Expression

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Impression

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Communication
Sender
Process
Idea

Encode

Transmit

MEDIUM
Receive

Decode
Receiver

Act

Communication Process
Sender

Idea

Encode

Transmit

MEDIUM
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Receiver

Receive

Decode

Act

Communication barriers

Semantic Barriers

Physical barriers

Psychological barriers

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Giving Instructions

Understand the
receivers background
Make receiver at ease
Give instructions, not
orders
Be Clear
Be precise (KISS)
Encourage clarification
Ask Feedback

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Giving Negative Feedback

Get your emotions under control


Find a private place
Focus on their actions, not on the
person
Be specific
Be timely
Be calm
Reaffirm your faith in the person
Stop talking
Define positive steps
Get over it

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Giving Positive Feedback

Do it now
Make it public
Be specific
Make a big deal out of it
Consider the receiver
Do it often
Do it evenly
Be sincere

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Rapport Building

What is Rapport?

Natural process of matching and being


in alignment with another.
A sense of mutual understanding and
sympathy
The presence of harmony, trust and
cooperation in relationship
Demonstrating understanding of the
other persons model of the world.
You dont have to like or agree to the
other persons model of the world, but
you have to at least understand it.

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Rapport Building

Take a genuine interest


Pick up on the key words in
conversation.
Notice how someone likes to handle
information
Breathe in unison with them.
Look out for the other person's intention
Adopt a similar stance to them in terms
of your body language, gestures, voice
tone and speed.
Respect the other person's time,
energy, money
Talk others language

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Influencing

What is Influencing?

a power to affect persons or events


especially power based on prestige etc;
"used her parents' influence to get the
job"

causing something without any direct or


apparent effort

charm: induce into action by using one's


charm; "She charmed him into giving her
all his money

To cause adversaries or others to


behave in a manner favorable to us

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What is influenced ?

The other persons

Attitudes
Beliefs
Values
Behavior
Motives
Actions

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Examples of Influencing

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Salesman selling a product to a


customer
Manager wanting his subordinate to
perform better
Father trying to reason out with his son
to join a particular degree course
Wife trying to influence her husband to
buy her a costly saree
Doctor persuading a patient to stop
smoking

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The Process of
For effective influencing:
Influencing

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A message should meet the


psychological needs of the other
person
Seek only minor changes in the
audiences attitudes at a time
Establish a common ground with the
other person
Leave your audience feeling satisfied
and competent
For change to endure, people must be
convinced they will be rewarded in
some way
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Outcomes of Successful
Persuasion

Target person doing


what is intended
Permanent Change

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Attitude
Behaviour

Mutual satisfaction

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Tools of Influencing

Negative

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Cheating
Threatening / Bullying
Blocking
Self Pity
Twisted Logic
Binding

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Tools of Influencing

Positive

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Ethos - Credibility
Pathos - Emotions
Logos - Logic
Kairos - Timing

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Motivating

Motivating

The Needs Hieraechy


Motivators
Hygine Factors
Motivating Employees
Problems in Motivating

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Performance
Management

Performance Management

Goal Setting
Guidance
Mentoring
Counseling
Giving Feedback
Problem solving

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Leadership

What is leadership?
Leading people
Influencing people
Commanding people
Guiding people

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The
of leadership
Whatmeaning
is leadership?
The process of
influencing people and
providing an
environment for them to
achieve team or
organizational
objectives

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Effective leaders can


increase

Subordinates motivation

Satisfaction

Morale

Task performance

Group identification

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Types of Leaders

Leader by the position achieved

Leader by personality, charisma

Leader by moral example

Leader by power held

Intellectual leader

Leader because of ability to


accomplish things

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Leadership is all about..


The art of getting people to do
what they really dont want to do
and dont feel equipped to do
against a timeline they dont
believe in, with risks that scare
them, to achieve an objective
they believe at the beginning to
be impossible.
Eric Gregory
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Leaders vs. Managers


LEADERS:

MANAGERS:

innovate

administrate

focus on people

focus on systems / structures

inspire trust

rely on control

have a long-range view

have a short-range view

ask what and why

ask how and when

have eyes on horizon

have eyes on bottom line

originate

initiate

challenge status quo

accept status quo

do the right thing

do things right

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People Management
Attitudes

Integrity
Equity & Fairness
Respect for Others
Empathy
Genuine concern for others

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