As a manager, you are responsible for using your manager skills to  manage a team of professionals. This means that you have to spend time  with each member of your team in order to make sure that they have a  good understanding of where they want their career to go and how they  are going to achieve it. 

At the the same time, you need to have a good  understanding of where you want your career to go. 

Likewise, once you know what you want, you’re going to have to know how you can go about making it happen.