 What are the skills I need to be a manager? What are the skills I need to be a manager? In this video, I'm going to run through quickly the skills you need if you want to be a manager. The first skill you're going to need is problem solving. You don't have to solve all the problems yourself. As the manager, you need to build a good team of people with different skill sets. You build a good team, you'll have a good problem solving team. Skill number two, decision making. So you have to be good at gathering info, investigating the evidence, and taking action. The third skill you need, planning. You need to be very organized and you need to be adaptable. The fourth skill you need, delegation. You don't have to do everything yourself. In fact, you shouldn't. You might have been the best person at your job before you were promoted to manager. But that's not your job anymore. You need to know your team's skills and delegate so the best person qualified does the job. The fifth skill you need as a manager is communication. Communication is very important. You need to communicate up with your superiors, down to your team, sideways to your vendors, up, down, sideways, every which way to Sunday. You have to be the best communicator and that's the name of the game. And the bonus skill that nobody talks about, managing yourself. When you were part of a team, you were managed, you were told what to do, you had structure. As a manager, now you have to manage your own time and make sure you use it to the best of your ability and not waste it. So I hope you got something out of those five skills and the bonus skill. Like and subscribe to the channel, leave a comment below if you'd like to dive deeper into any of these subjects. Don't forget to subscribe.