Anecdote: The importance of management development

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10/03/10 |

The importance of management development

By Mark. Follow me on Twitter. Filed in Change management, Strategy.

On Monday I ran a management development program for a NSW University. Our program relies on a 'pull' strategy to get participants to determine for themselves the things they need to work on to be better managers and leaders. Each program uses examples collected from within the organisation to help them notice the things that are most important to their people and also the patterns of behaviour embedded in their culture.

On Tuesday, Shawn sent a link for a YouTube clip of Tom Peters stressing how important it to to develop managers, especially first line managers, because of the enormous impact they have on performance and engagement of people.

For the same reason that Tom explains in the clip, managers have an enormous impact of the success, or otherwise, of any change initiative an organisation undertakes.