Question

Describe the best manager you have ever had. Explain his/her strengths and weaknesses in terms of conceptual, human and technical skills.

Answer 1

The best manager I had was in my previous organization which was a supplychain consulting company. Some of the major strength of him as a manager was his interpersonal skills and rather than delegating work he was more of a leader who leads from the front.He has an excellent domain knowledge and was able to plan, design the work in such a way that he could guide and execute it with high quality output. Proper time management and client manage was something which I admire him a lot. He was composed and even during high pressure on work he never got overboard by any emotions and was very patient and having high resilence. He is well focussed on the reporters and their career path and ensure people under him also grow alongwith their Performance. He motivate people a lot and support them whenever there is a requirement.

His human skills are he was compassionate and caring who understands the people well . He encourage resources to take break abd holiday and ensure a proper work life balance. Apart from work he was good in organizing outbound activities which foster the team building and cultural diversity . Technical skills includes the knowledge of data analysis and high level interpretation of data which is very well required for a consultant. In addition he is good at sharing knowledge and create a knowledge pool in the team.

There are not much weakness about him but still some of the weakness are lack of industry insight that he was not that updated with industry level changes. And another is lack of proper change management skills.