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"Being good at interpersonal skills and doing things well" can advance our careers. So as a manager, how do you do both? What must a successful manager do? What qualities are most important to help you go further?

Daily Must-Dos

  1. Summarize your task completion for the day.
  2. Consider the main work you should do tomorrow.
  3. Understand the sales development of at least one department or provide corresponding guidance.
  4. Consider the company's shortcomings and think of methods and steps to improve.
  5. Understand the sales development of at least one department or provide corresponding guidance.
  6. Review reports every day.
  7. Reflect on your mistakes of the day.
  8. Assess whether the quality and efficiency of your day's work can be improved.
  9. Approve documents that need your signature.

Weekly Must-Dos

  1. Hold a meeting with middle-level managers.
  2. Have a discussion with a major functional department.
  3. Communicate with someone you consider a current or future key employee.
  4. Report to your boss once.
  5. Summarize the sales progress of each department.
  6. Hold a meeting related to quality.
  7. Correct an incorrect practice in a detail within the company.
  8. Check the implementation of corrective measures from last week.
  9. Conduct an informal self-summary.
  10. Organize your files or bookshelves.
  11. Understand changes in relevant financial indicators.
  12. Contact an important client.
  13. Review reports that must be read weekly.
  14. Contact a distributor.
  15. Praise one of your key employees.

Every Ten Days Must-Dos

  1. Invite a different employee to a meal or tea.
  2. Communicate with the finance department once.
  3. Provide focused help to a department's sales.
  4. Visit a distributor.

Monthly Must-Dos

  1. Assess the sales performance of each department once.
  2. Visit an important client.
  3. Conduct a self-assessment once.
  4. Review monthly financial statements.
  5. Review overall monthly sales.
  6. Plan next month's sales.
  7. Set next month's sales policy.

The 12 Most Important Qualities for Managers

  1. Loyalty. Always think from the boss's perspective.
  2. Dedication. Provide service and effort beyond your compensation.
  3. Proactivity. Shift from "I have to do" to "I want to do."
  4. Responsibility. Stop the problem ball at your feet.
  5. Efficiency. Say goodbye to being busy but unproductive.
  6. Results. Think from the start about how to get things done.
  7. Communication. Communicate with solutions, face-to-face, and resolve on the spot.
  8. Teamwork. A drop of water merges into the sea; an individual merges into the team.
  9. Ambition. Squeeze time to improve and recharge yourself.
  10. Humility. Don't boast or seek rewards; achievements are just the beginning, and honor is motivation.
  11. Cost-consciousness. Don't waste company resources, even a piece of paper.
  12. Gratitude. Learn to be grateful; work gives you not only compensation but also opportunities to learn and grow.

Source: Internet