Management Skills

I have found it incredibly fascinating to witness throughout my management career as a practitioner, management leadership coach and consultant how executives have managed organization and not have the faintest idea what is their management style. Many executives manage from a perspective of implementing the basic management practices and concepts of: planning, organizing, directing and controlling and though those management elements are important they fall short of providing leadership if other important managerial leadership characteristics aren't present.

In order for the presence of leadership to be in existence other factors must be incorporated like a synchronized machine; they must be in motion simultaneously. Executive educators in the field of early childhood education Head Start are notorious for thinking that all is well in the home front of managing under the traditional direction of management practices that are outdated. They have failed to get up to speed with some of the elite private sector organizations that have demonstrated a keen awareness of best practices and leadership management practices. Having served as a Quality Assurance Executive for one of America's largest Early Childhood Educational Programs (Head Start) I can attest to the fact that millions of tax payers' dollars are going to waste and not being used for the purpose of providing quality educational opportunities for underserved and economic disadvantage children. The reason I make this statement is because this program is being manipulated by specialist who know how to scam the system from the over ten billion dollar annually federally funded program. They have become what I call federally funded professional Executive pimps. I know that is harsh, but the fact of the matter is; that it is the truth based on the federal reviews that indicates many of these programs to be deficient and my first hand observation of not only bad practices but immoral.

So now, let's examine some of the variables on why and how this situation has occurred and how it could be occurring in your organization. What is going wrong with our public educational structure? And what is going wrong with our leadership management structure in Corporate America? From my perspective the public and the private sector need to regroup, reflect and redefine their management practices to fit the modern era of people relations. And so therefore, the time has now come to examine specifically the processes of your very own management style and what to look for along the way to developing your leadership skills.