Discuss the four key functions of management.

Leading

creating a vision for the organization and guiding, training, coaching, and motivating others to work effectively to achieve the organization's goals and objectives.

Planning

a management function that includes anticipating trends and determining the best strategies and tactics to achieve organizational goals and objectives.

Organizing

a management function that includes designing the structure of the organization and creating conditions and systems in which everyone and everything work together to achieve the organizations goals and objectives.

Controlling

a management function that includes establishing clear standards to determine whether or not an organization is processing toward its goals and objectives, rewarding people for doing a good job, and taking corrective action if they are not.