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Management & Leadership

A key factor in the success of any business, especially one that is looking to grow, is the capability of its management team in terms of their management, leadership and innovative skills.
The Labour Force Survey has recently reported that in the UK approximately 14% of the workforce has significant management responsibilities, but outside of the UK managers are still perceived to lag behind those in France, Germany and the US in terms of competence and experience (Institute of Management Development).
To remain competitive businesses today need inspirational managers and leaders who have developed, or have the potential to develop, a broad range of management and leadership skills that they can deploy and utilise as appropriate for any situation situation.
Whilst there is very little external grant funding available to help organisations meet these training costs, training need not be expensive – the key is firstly to identify the skills gaps against the business objectives and then look at the options available for management training:

• External training – open programmes or bespoke
• Internal training
• Mentoring
• Coaching
• Higher or Further Education – Colleges, University, Open University
• E-learning (learning on line)
• Reading material –books, internet, quality newspapers etc
• Projects
• Secondments
• Job-swap
• ‘Buddying’
• Etc.

Once all the options have been considered and a course of action agreed a personal development should be created with clear milestones and the inclusion of an objective evaluation of any training or development activities undertaken to ensure they are in line with both the organisation’s and the individual’s objectives.