I spent most of last week coaching new managers at an emerging leaders program for the media industry. The level of talent was evident, and the participants had a rich set of skills and experience that made them so effective at their jobs that they got promoted and sent to this leadership program! But success as a manager is different than success as an individual contributor. Whatever you did before – finance, sales, marketing, creative, operations, etc. – you need to have that expertise, but also an additional set of skills related to management specifically. Here are 10 skills you need to be an effective manager:

Managing up

Yes, you’ll be managing an individual or team of individuals below you, but many times a bigger part of your job will be managing the expectations, preferences and demands of senior people above you. As a manager, you’ll have a bigger scope of responsibility and higher expectations placed on you. Management success requires you to manage up to maintain your credibility and solidify those senior relationships.

Business understanding

As an individual contributor, your responsibilities were more likely task-oriented and/ or shorter-term. As a manager, the additional responsibility often means you’ll have longer-term projects with more direct impact on the bottom line. If you didn’t need to understand your company’s revenue sources, cost structure, and balance sheet before, then you will now, in order to ensure you’re making good decisions and getting desired results.

Synthesizing

The larger the scope, the more important it is that you are able to distill the wider body of information to its essential meaning. You will need to explain what you’re doing to senior executives who are time-pressed. For management success, you will need to let your boss know that you’ve thought through a project from start-to-finish.

Presenting

You may have had some chances to present at team meetings before, but these public speaking requirements will only increase as your responsibilities increase. You may have to present to more senior executives than you did in the past, or directly to clients. As you get more senior, you may also be asked to represent the company at conferences or recruiting events.

Listening

At the same time you’ll probably have to present more, you’ll also have to listen more and more effectively. This will help in managing up and down. You need to listen for company priorities, your boss’ priorities, and your team’s needs both individually and collectively. You will probably be working across departments more often than before so will have a whole new host of colleagues to get to know.

Read 5 more skills for management success at SixFigureStart:

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