The manager's role
Featured in the Developing People: The Manager's Role training manual
By Caroline Love
Category: People Management and Motivation
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
The one sure thing in any organisation is that change is inevitable. Staff need to be able to respond to change by developing new skills, taking risks and learning new processes. Managers increasingly have a direct responsibility for developing staff. In order to be effective developers, managers need to know what their role is and the place of staff development in it. This training activity provides an opportunity for managers to explore the extent to which development is and can be integral to their role.
You initiate a discussion about the roles of managers and then summarise the discussion using visual material. The participants examine McGregor’s Theory X and Y. This is followed by consideration of the place of staff development in their organisation. Participants identify and list what they do now to develop staff and what they could do – what processes/ideas do they know about? They present their thoughts for discussion and expansion. The participants then focus on the costs and benefits to them, to the organisation and to individual staff of developing staff. Finally, they discuss the place of staff development in the organisation and their role as a developer – is it an add-on or integral to their whole job?
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to enable participants to put the management role in developing people in context.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:40:00 |
| No of Pages: | 16 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers early in a programme on developing people: the manager’s role, ideally as the second training activity. The training activity can also be used in workshops or training programmes such as developing a learning organisation, change management, staff support and supervision, or appraisal.
Download the training activity, The manager's role as featured in the Fenman training manual; Developing People: The Manager's Role