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  There are four basic management skills anyone must master to have any success in a management. these four skills are to plan, organize, direct and control, and they are discussed separately in detail blow... 1 Plan; Planning is the first and most important step in any management task. It also is the most often overlooked or purposely skipped step while the amount of planning and the detail required will vary from task to task, to skip this task to invite sure disaster except by blind luck. 2 Organize; A manager must be able to organize teams, task, and projects in order to get the team's work done in the most efficient and effective manner. 3 Direct; Directing is the action step you have planned and organized the work. Now you have to direct your team to get the work done. Start by making sure the goal is clear to everyone on the team. 4 Control; Some writers try to "soften" this basic management skill by calling it "coordination" or similar terms. The stronger term, control is essential though, so that the manager is able to control the team's activities.