The Hindu Business Line : Check if you are skilled

Managerial skills are technical, human and conceptual, says Seema Sanghi in Towards Personal Excellence, second edition (www.indiasage.com). Technical skills are the ability of doing things by one's own effort, while human skills are about the ability to interact with people in an effective manner. And conceptual skills involve an understanding of the direction in which the organisation will move in times to come, explains Sanghi.

The book has many self-tests. For instance, statements that you need to respond to, in a section on being innovative, include `I build contacts with experts outside my firm,' `I welcome uncertain and unusual circumstances related to my tasks,' `I find time to pursue my own ideas or projects,' and `I speak out at meetings.' Similarly, a section titled `are you a creative thinker?' lists the following lines to check possible descriptions of you: Voicing unconventional but thought-provoking opinions in a group, getting good ideas when doing nothing in particular, getting overly enthusiastic about things, feeling attracted to the mystery of life, tending to forget details such as names of people and places, and beginning to work on a problem that is not fully expressed.

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