| What are the strategic aims of your business ? |
Any management development programme must start here, making sure people’s understanding aligns with each other, as well as the capabilities and market needs of the business
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| What skills and capabilities do managers need in order to achieve these aims ? |
It’s really important everyone is clear that there are differences in training needs between different levels in the business. We reject a ‘sheep-dip’ approach in favour of identifying development needs for succession planning at every level.
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| How do future capabilities requirements compare to those currently available ? |
Sometimes you will have a current and authoritative view from data available in your organisation. Sometimes, only a survey can answer this – linked to the business strategy and focused around the skills and capabilities of the managers.
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| Where are the gaps and how can these gaps be addressed ? |
Our recent experience suggests that the areas that make a difference to the performance of managers are
- self-awareness
- an ability to use different management styles
- a strong awareness of HR policies
- basic elements of employment law
- an ability to deal with conflict
These core skills provide a powerful platform to build on the development requirements for the next level of leadership, and are at the core of equalta’s management development programmes.
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