4. Answer the questions.

1. What do you think of “management skills”?

2. Which of these skills seem to be the most important for you, which ones are not? Prove your point of view.

3. Why is it important for managers to have many different skills?

4. What should managers do about their weaknesses?

5. Find words in the text which mean the following.

1. lively action or movement

2. a plan of action adopted or pursued by a company

3. the natural action or intended purpose of a person or thing in a specific role

4. external or existing circumstances

5. the favourable outcome of something attempted

6. the reason for a certain course of action, whether conscious or unconscious

7. the means of maintenance of a business, company, etc.

8. the act or process of growing and progressing.

6. Complete the sentences with one of the following words in the box.

objective, is possessed, field, interpersonal, decision-making, coordinate

1. Land that ……………… by the city should be turned into parks.

2. Every ……………….. process produces a final choice.

3. ………………. is a specific result that a person or system aims to achieve within a time frame and with available resources.

4. Accounting is the business …………. that contains public accountants, auditors, forensic accountants, as well as the degrees needed to reach these positions.

5. These groups do not ……………. well with each other and each has its own agenda and interests.

6. ……………… skills are the skills a person uses to communicate and interact with others.

7. Match the verbs with the appropriate phrases.

A manager should:

1. respond a) in his ability

2. listen b) to a deputy

3. deal c) to an employee’s inquires

4. believe d) with customers

5. delegate e) with problems

6. communicate f) in training courses

7. invest g) to all their ideas

8. Choose an appropriate preposition for each case:

	someone	something
report to
report on
apologize for
apologize to
argue with
argue about
agree with
agree on

Make up your own sentences using the verbs in the table.