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Effective management
Investors In People can help you lead, manage, and develop your people more effectively.
Good management is the key to your organisation’s success. But management isn’t just about the MD, the Board or the Directors; good management is about anyone who has a responsibility for other people –from a team or just one person.
All managers need to lead, manage and develop their people. So you need to:
- Identify who your managers are and clearly define their role.
- Ensure that your managers take ownership of continuous improvement and lead, manage, develop and support their people for success.
- Involve your people and ensure they believe in the role of the manager and that their manager does walk the talk.
Building Confidence
With effective management comes clarity of roles and your people will feel more secure, knowing what their manager should be doing.
- Managers will be clear about what the organisation expects of them.
- Managers will have their own development plan to work through.
- Constructive feedback can be given to Managers based on the agreed role.
- Managers will be clear on what people at all levels in the organisation expect of them.
Practical Ideas
An important role of your manager is consistency. Keep your definition of a manager’s role simple and consistent across management levels and communicate the role of a manager to all your people so that they know what they can expect.
Some Ideas:
- Find out individual managers’ learning styles and choose development activities that suit them.
- Carry out a survey of your people to find out what they think about the role of a Manager and if they believe that managers “walk the talk".
- Do not be afraid to have the difficult discussions about changing role when the gaps are just too big.
For more information on how the Investors in People Framework can improve the effectiveness of your management, please contact us.
