If you're a manager, you already know that managing people can be a challenge. What does Managerial success mean to you?

The basic management skills are: decision making, problem solving, planning, organizing, leading and coordinating activities.

Basic principles every manager should remember:

1. Motivating employees starts with motivating yourself

2. Always work to align goals of the organization with goals of employees.

3. Key to supporting the motivation of your employees is understanding what motivates each of them

4. Recognize that supporting employee motivation is a process, not a task

5. Support employee motivation by using organizational systems (for example, policies and procedures) -- don't just count on good intentions.

To succeed as a manager, you should succeed on managing yourself well first of all!