Leader, Production

•    Technical skill: Technical skill is proficiency in a specific activity that involves methods, processes, procedures or techniques (molding, components, finishing).  
•    Human skills: the ability to work with, understand, motivate, and communicate with associates and groups.  It also includes the ability to engage and communicate with people, to set the tone, resolve conflict, and to discipline.  Since the leader’s job involves constant interaction with people, human skills are essential.
•    Conceptual skills: the ability to understand abstract or general ideas and apply them to specific situations.  Conceptual skill usually means understanding how TPI can be affected by a specific activity.  Although it may not always be apparent, every action taken in an organization has ramifications elsewhere.
•    Diagnostic skills: is the ability to analyze the nature of a problem with people, ideas, things or events.  A good diagnosis precedes a recommended solution to a problem. Leaders routinely can be called on to size up a problem in order to take appropriate corrective action.  This skill overlaps with the other four managerial skills. This occurs because leaders usually need to use technical, human, conceptual or political skills to make their diagnosis. 
•    Influencing skills: the ability to acquire the power needed to achieve one’s and TPI’s objectives. Specific influencing skills include being able to win others over to your cause.