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5 Skills That Every Manager Should Own
5 Skills That Every Manager Should Own
You may not only be a business writer or communicator, but also a manager. If it is your duty to facilitate a team that is responsible for producing work aimed for the public or possible clients, then read ahead to make sure that you are doing your job successfully. If these aren’t your current duties, take a peak anyways for tips on how to increase your job title and potential. For any new business endeavor that comes your way, remember what you must do:
1. Be a Pro-Scheduler: If your team fails, you do not want to be left to pick up the pieces or hide in the corner. So, don’t let yourself be in this position by effectively creating schedules and deadlines that must be followed. Being organized and checking off tasks will help you and your team progress to the next steps easily and timely.
2. Play Both Sides of The Fence: No, I don’t mean do anything unethical, simply be able to see yourself in both the leadership and team member roles in order to become a better communicator. If you evaluate both sides will allow you to make tough decisions with concise reasoning.
3. Be Decisive: You don’t want to stick out as a villain in the eyes of your employees, but you can’t always make everyone happy. In order to avoid a mess, you must be a decisive leader on a consistent basis. While doing so, you will remain in charge and the team will respect you for it.
4. Be Dependable: Both the team and clients are depending on the manager to accomplish tasks. Having this job title means that everyone is responded to in a timely manner and you are the key contact for any materials and information related to the job at hand. This brings me to the final skill,
5. Be an Expert in the Industry: A team will look up to their manager for guidance surrounding the industry, while clientele look to be a part of a business with a significant leader. Constant knowledge and fine-tuning of expertise in all realms of the business community and news will help you to become a success.
Remember that having strong, professional attributes will help at any level of business, but demonstrating these skills will help you achieve even more success. -
Proposal Writing as a Job.
Proposal Writing as a Job.
The purpose of a business proposal is to persuade a potential customer to use you or your companies services by documenting that you will be able to fulfill all of their requirements or needs over a competitor.
Emerging businesses and large corporations alike can standout through their writing. In the digital age that we live in, companies can grow online and expand to new clientele, yet personalized and content-driven proposals are still a necessity for business transactions. Whether a company is preparing a response to a RFP or initiating new clients, this document is a treasure. And, every treasure is wielded from a mastermind: Proposal Writer, Coordinator, Specialist, Technical Writer…all around EXPERT.
This Person Doesn’t Just Fill-in the Blanks. Their Role May Include:- Collaborating with a team to review each other’s work and ensure high quality deliverables
- Working closely with multiple departments to share information
- Participation in the development and content creation for presentations, proposals, and marketing materials, all while maintaining top quality company/industry-related information
- Scheduling and facilitating strategy and meetings related to proposal development
- Assisting with corporate branding initiatives
- Ensuring quality control measures are followed
Qualifications for This Position Can Include:- Bachelor’s in Communications, English, Marketing, or a related field
- Similar experience in a related industry
- An aptitude for time-management, team leadership, and software tools
- Exude confidence, a keen eye for details, excellent communication skills, and flexibility
Does this sound like you?
If you see yourself in this position, then you are highly sought out in companies anywhere from the landscape to software industries. You will be one of the keys to growing their business! So check out Indeed.com, Monster.com, Jobs.com, etc. Also, use your online presence to build your name as a reliable superpower in the trade. -
The Value of an eProposal
If you haven’t written a proposal before, this post may not connect with you as much as a seasoned proposal writing professional. Having written hundreds and maybe thousands of proposals in over 10 years of consulting and business development I’ve asked many of the questions that you’ve probably had. Questions like…
- What order should I put this content in? Should I put the pricing first, last or in the middle?
- How many references should I put on the references page? and where should I put that?
- Do clients actually read my portfolio examples or case studies?
There are many other questions I always ask myself while attempting to create a lengthy masterpiece in typically a less than ideal timeframe. I used to always ask myself, how do we find out these answers? I guess I’ve always been a “there has to be a better way” guy. The great thing is, there is now. Having the ability to view what pages your prospect has read and knowing when your proposal was opened and read are just two key metrics that are changing the way proposals are written. Other statistics that are bringing new light to proposal writing are.
- most viewed pages
- average time pages viewed
- value of active proposals
- Number of times document viewed
Technology is continuing to make measuring the results of your proposals more easy, allowing us to constantly get better.
Brad
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Welcome
Welcome to www.proposalmanagementsoftware.com. To start us off properly, you are probably wondering what this blog is all about. Well, it’s simple; to provide a platform for professionals connected with proposal writing and management to connect, have discussions, learn and also teach. This will be a collaborative open forum where engaging conversation is encouraged (as long as its PG) and we’ll have a little fun along the way as well. We’ll share videos, pictures, and stories along with educations articles to help enhance and brighten your day. Feel free and reach out to us, we’d love to connect.
Brad
