Management skills in leaders of mid-sized businesses of Colombia

Abstract

This paper aims to characterize the management skills that leaders countwith, and how these contribute to exercise their duties and the impact onmanagement. The type of study used was the exploratory - descriptive one.To carry out this work, it was designed an instrument of 18 questions andwas applied to 786 leaders of mid-sized businesses in the Pacific, Caribbeanand Andean regions, that allowed to identify the characteristics of leaders,their ways of conduct and behavior among others; it can be concluded generallythat leaders have clear what this concept means, they have a relationalleadership profile,they use in a greater proportion oral communication, theybehave as reagents leaders, very busy and with high stress.