Developing stronger managers

Management Skills

High performing teams come from high performing managers! But, all too often, we see employees being promoted into a new role with minimal line management experience, and little or no training. Usually these are very capable individuals but they may lack confidence when it comes to dealing with challenging or confrontational situations. They may have also worked alongside those that they now find themselves managing, making it difficult for them to effectively handle necessary conversations without feeling like the ‘bad guy’.

In our experience, many line managers are seeking those practical, hands-on skills to get them where they need to be. With just a few quick and easy interventions, you can provide the knowledge, tools, and techniques they need for handling day to day issues they will likely face, whether that’s sickness or absence, performance reviews, disciplinaries or grievances.

As an employer, it’s your job to set your managers up for success.

The cost of complacency

With continuous new advancements in just about everything, failing to prepare and develop your managers can impact on so many areas of your business. You may find them performing outdated techniques that don’t align with your business – or worse still, are no longer appropriate with a changing legal landscape! Managers that aren’t recognised or able to better themselves can soon become out of touch with industry advancements, feel demotivated and undervalued, and may even begin looking elsewhere, yearning for change.

As an employer, you could find yourself:

Limited by managers who are unable to effectively manage workload
Stumped with how to build up manager’s confidence to deal with tricky situations
Constrained by managers using and teaching out of date methods
Struggling to help managers get the most out of their team’s skills
Bogged down by team members complaints
Unsure how to transition employees into management smoothly

Our business-focused approach

We know that hours spent on training and development can feel like lost time when you have workloads and customer demands mounting up, but the rewards of developing your middle management far outweigh the sacrifice, and you will quickly recoup lost time. At Triangle HR, we assist you in developing your manager skill sets, helping to evolve a team of management superstars that do exactly what they should be doing – making your life easier! In return for your investment in their growth, you not only equip your managers to get the most from their teams, but you in turn also provide them with their own job satisfaction and motivation for enhanced performance. It’s a win-win!

With various resources available, training doesn’t have to mean a ‘9am-5pm Death-by-PowerPoint’ session. Instead, we can organise a mixture of focused group workshops, 1:1 support, mentoring, coaching programmes, and accredited qualifications, all depending on what suits your business. Providing personal development for your managers gives them a deeper understanding of their role and responsibilities. Not only does this help ensure they are carrying out their daily tasks effectively, but also reinforces the importance of what they are doing, and why. In turn, this encourages a greater levels of responsibility, making them more likely to be creative, engage with company strategy, and address issues within their teams promptly and effectively. We work with you to get a deeper understanding of your business and in turn, your individual managers or team members. In doing so, we can recommend and create a training plan that will be effective for both the individual and the organisation.