Management
Development
Excellent management skills are crucial
to the achievement of sustainable business results and team and individual performance.
The quality of its managers will usually determine how well an organisation can
balance the needs of the business and the needs of individuals and make sure that
both thrive. In most organisations, being promoted
to a management role is often the reward for excellent individual performance.
What new managers quickly begin to understand, though, is that the skills and
methods required for success as an individual contributor and those required for
success as a manager are very different. The new manager needs to learn to value
the work of managing people and not hold on to work that those people should be
doing. Equally, more experienced, senior managers need to understand that, as
they progress, they too need to change their focus and their ways of working. Through
our hugely popular management development programmes delivered in a range of industry
sectors, we have helped people successfully complete these key transitions in
their management careers and develop the skills necessary to be an effective manager
at different levels. Case study - Nestlé
Waters - The Essentials of Management
This organisation,
part of the Nestlé global business, was in a period of consolidation after
several years of rapid acquisition-led growth. Its traditional hierarchical management
style was serving it poorly when it came to meeting the challenges of fostering
innovation and dealing with environmental concerns and the prospect of an economic
downturn. What was identified was the need to address the way managers interacted
with other people in the organisation and how everyone went about their day-to-day
work. Working in partnership with Nestlé Waters learning and development
colleagues, we have designed this suite of programmes, which contains discrete
modules for managers at different levels. It aims to equip them with the understanding
of their management role and to develop the skills required to drive excellent
performance through others. Originally an open programme, the Essentials of Management
has now been incorporated within the Nestlé Continuous Excellence (NCE)
strategic initiative and has been delivered in numerous European countries as
well as Latin America. | 
