Management skills are support skills; people skills.

@Trello's People VP talks about how the company is doing with on boarding, management, performance reviews, company culture and goals and compensation setting…

Management skills are support skills; people skills. It’s about figuring out what makes someone tick, understanding their concerns and figuring out how to make them better at their job.

An interesting "case study" from Impraise.

Lo que, por cierto me recuerda esta otra entrada en este blog (en español y propia), que actualizaba hace poco para decir que Seth Godin indicaba la conveniencia de no llamar "soft skills" a aquellas referidas a las habilidades para las relaciones personales, no son nada "soft".
Y la conveniencia de confirmar si uno dispone o no de dichas "skills", pues las competencias "vocacionales" (propias del puesto, digamos) ya se le suponen al empleado o aspirante.