Additional Roles and Skills of Managers

Mintzberg defined ten management roles within three categories: interpersonal, informational, and decisional.

Agendas help to organize, prioritize, and facilitate discussion about a given set of points in an organizational pursuit.

Successful managers must possess certain technical skills that assist them in optimizing managerial performance.

Conceptual skills revolve around generating ideas through creative intuitions and a comprehensive understanding of a given context.

A manager must be both analytical and personable when it comes to managing time, resources, and personnel.

Experiential learning is the process of making meaning from direct experience.