People management is decisive in order to ensure that the managers are getting the most out of the employees because no matter how good team members are individually if they cannot work together things will end up in chaos and nothing can be finished properly or worse of all nothing can get done because of how dysfunctional the executive team is.
Businesses are made up of people of different ages, from various backgrounds, and with different ideas of how to work. This means different groups within the company will be motivated by different things and will work best in particular ways.
To ensure that everyone in the team reaches their maximum potential, managers must build up a toolkit of people management skills. This is needed not only to motivate each member of the team, improve productivity and boost staff morale, but to also offer support and reduce stress in times of change, disruption or uncertainty. As this must all be done whilst aligning individual career goals and the goals of the company, holding a broad range of people management skills that can be utilised for different people and different situations is the only effective way to get there.