Ideas in this flowchart

• Preparing for tomorrow's workplace requires effective management skills.
• Information technology enables managers to make quicker, better-informed decisions.
• Globalization increases the need for multinational cultural management skills.
• Managers should build an inclusive culture of trust.
• Managers must set a good example.
• Managers should create personal involvement for all employees.
• Managers should develop a culture of trust.
• A self-assessment should examine current technical, human relations, and conceptual skills.
• The assessment identifies existing skills, strengths, and skills that need to be added.
• The assessment supports a description of an effective manager.
• Resources and information support the management-skills assessment.
• Successful managers coordinate planning, organizing, and controlling.
• Planning maps out how managers will use their time.
• Organizing determines the activities and tasks required within the time frame.
• Controlling ensures that managers stay on track.
• Time-management reflection examines personal use of time.
• The reflection considers whether a person thinks ahead or procrastinates.
• The reflection identifies at least three areas for improving time-management skills.
• Resources support the time-management exercise.