Creating an Integrated Management Development Strategy

Course Overview

Managers and leaders are pivotal to organisational success through their ability to lead, manage and motivate teams and individuals. Todays successful organisations are those with high performance cultures and high performance working, where transformational leaders shape change and drive business excellence.

But to be successful management development needs to be an integrated strategy, linking both horizontally to the business and vertically to other HR and HRD strategies.

This course will help management development specialists create strategies that are appropriate to their organisation and cultivate collaborative working partnerships with stakeholders within the business.

Audience

Learning and development practitioners and/or management development specialists who have the desire to learn new ideas, leading trends and practices in management development. Senior managers with managers reporting to them who want to gain an insight into the range of management development activities applicable to their learning needs.Introductory level course - geared towards those who need an introduction to the subject and assumes limited or no previous experience.

Skills Gained

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• create management development strategies that are appropriate for your organisation
• identify the key stakeholders in learning and development and how to gain their commitment to management development
• advise on and design management development activities for different learning needs, styles and skills
• use models for monitoring and evaluating management development activity.

Course Outline

What is management development?

• the changing nature of a managers role
• three approaches to management development proactive reactive motivational
• an insight into a range of new and leading edge management development solutions
• the contribution of management development to the business.

Who are the stakeholders in management development?

• how to identify stakeholders and assess their impact on management development strategy
• how to tackle tensions in stakeholders goals and expectations of management development
• how to gain commitment from stakeholders to management development activities
• the partnership approach.

Choosing management development activities

• how to assess the future value of a range of management development options learner centred vs trainer driven assessing the costs, feasibility and impact conducting a management development audit
• ways of keeping up to date on new ideas and new thinking
• choosing the right management development activity for the different levels of management.

The different ways that managers can learn

• constructivist approaches
• meta skills
• learning styles
• continuous and discontinuous learning
• role modelling, mentoring and action learning
• self-development.

Creating an Integrated Management Development Strategy / CM025263