What should an office manager do to improve skills and become more effective?

These are some principles which will help office managers to boost their performance and action in the firm.

Sharpen your communication skills:

 Being an effective communicator is critical to everything you do as office manager, and to master this skill you have to attend meetings, conference and to participate in any networking events to strength your spoken skills.

 Continue your education and professional development.

Continue learning, growing and expanding your business knowledge,

Follow-up any updates in technology

Give attention to small details:

As far as you give attention to big detail, also you might take care of these small things in your work.

You will need to have organization in your life to have any hope of paying attention to the small things.

This will help you keeping track of appointments and tasks that need to be accomplished so that you aren't surprised when it's time to turn them in.

Make lists

Enlists your daily and routine task is a useful way to be organized and to make sure that you know when and how everything needs to come together.  

Be Proactive:

From the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the habit number one is “Be Proactive” to plan ahead for problems or opportunities.  

In order to be proactive, you must develop foresight, to anticipate problems and events and to understand to get things work.

 In addition to come up with multiple scenarios for how events could be developed.  

Proactive people predict potential obstacles to prevent them. Also, proactive people plan for the future and taking timely, effective action.