conceptual

Examples of conceptual in the following topics:

• Intellectual Skills of Successful Managers

  • Conceptual skills revolve around generating ideas through creative intuitions and a comprehensive understanding of a given context.
  • As a result, conceptual skills are often viewed as critical success factors for upper managerial functions.
  • Collecting the results of conceptual thinking represent a feedback loop.
  • Conceptual skills are important in empowering managers in all levels of an organization to observe the operations of an organization and frame them conceptually as an aspect of that organization's strategy, objectives, and policies.
  • Conceptual thinking allows for accurate and timely feedback and organizational adaptability.

• Technical Skills of Successful Managers

  • Robert Katz identifies three critical skill sets for successful management professionals: technical skills, human skills, and conceptual skills.
  • Katz postulates that the higher up in the organization an individual rises, the more conceptual skills (and fewer technical skills) are necessary.
  • Senior managers need fewer technical skills because strategic decision-making is inherently more conceptual; mid- and lower-level skills such as data collection, assessment, and discussion are all more technical.

• Implementing Strategy

  • Often, plans are filled with conceptual terms that do not connect to day-to-day realities for the staff that is expected to carry out the plans.
  • Action plans that describe the way processes are transformed into tangible operations are a critical success factor and often a point of difficulty for conceptual strategists.

• Top-Level Management

  • Managerial skills include conceptual skills, interpersonal skills, and technical skills.
  • Successful top-level managers usually display more conceptual than technical skill.

• Servant Leadership

  • Conceptualization: A servant leader thinks beyond day-to-day realities to identify future possibilities.

• Experiential Learning for Managers

  • the learner must possess and use analytic skills to conceptualize the experience
  • Learning through experiences requires observation, conceptualization, and experimentation to engage the mind.

• The Systems Viewpoint

  • In systems thinking, problems are conceptualized as a set of habits or practices that exist within a framework.

• Interpersonal Skills of Successful Managers

  • According to management theorist Robert Katz, management comprises three critical skill sets: technical, human, and conceptual.

• Planning a Project

  • Initiation: The initiation stage includes generating the idea, assessing the feasibility and profitability of the project, conceptualizing the operational benefits and the bottom line, and getting approval and resources.

• Defining Organizational Culture

  • Define culture and it's conceptual development within the context of organizations and innovation