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Developing effective leaders takes time… only an ongoing process of development will produce sustainable results.
The Management Development Process™ was developed to address the key reasons why many management and leadership programs don’t achieve any long-term results.
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Most management development courses are short term… anything from 2 or 3 days to a 3-week residential at a business school.
This creates two problems. Firstly that of too much information at one time and secondly, without follow-up training and on-the-job reinforcement, the effect of the training will wear off.
That is precisely why most managers who send people off to attend training have the experience that training does not work!
If training is going to achieve high levels of retention and transfer into the workplace, there are two things that must be done: |
- Training needs to be delivered in such a way as to ensure that participants can apply what was learned…before they learn anything else.
- The environment at work must not only support the training, but also require that it be applied and measured against pre-agreed training objectives and outcomes.
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In other words, people need to absorb and apply the first piece of information, before they learn the next piece of information and have the support of their manager in applying what they have learned.
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Mary Jo Huard, Managing Director of Southwest Training Institute, has developed The Management Development Process™ with these needs in mind. It consists of a series of training events focused on building skills over a 12 to 24 month time frame… with on-the-job application exercises between each training module.
The process has been designed around the development needs of managers in the current work environment as we move towards fewer layers of managers, more empowered workforces and a need for greater personal responsibility.
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| Manage the Environment, Not People! |
The primary role of managers is to manage the environment! We cannot really manage people… they do either what they want to do, or what they believe they have to do. What we want managers to do is to create an environment where people want to, and can excel… where they can and do perform at their best!
So any development program for managers must focus on developing the knowledge and skills needed to manage the work environment.
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| Personal Coaching |
Personal one-on-one coaching with the facilitator of the Management Development Process™ is available throughout the process to discuss their profile results, understand their feedback from the 360-degree assessment, and develop specific skills or competencies.
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