What can be done to prepare and develop managers for all levels of the organization?
From United States, Minneapolis
From United States, Minneapolis
Ask yourself if he or she really deserves to be groomed
Is the executive / manager is doing the job just because he or she can't decide on a career? Is the young adult entering the job because he or she got it as first job out of college and not out of will? Have they had trouble finding or keeping another job?
If you answer yes to any of these four questions, then the chances are that they might not be your long term employees.. If so it would not be economically feasible to groom them as future managers.
If you have decided on the employees you need to groom into future managers / leaders, decide the department / field that you intend them to excel in.. Make his / her superior his mentor.
Re-define their job duties
Specifically decide what roles they will play in the company and how it would help them develop. Edit the job responsibilities so that they are involved in more decision making work and less of routine work. Realize that they will make mistakes and don't be harder on them. Keep a occassional check on their crucial decisions
Don't spend your days looking over their shoulders
Your future managers must have some power and responsibility or your other employees won't respect them. Find something his superior could do, change his superior's job responsibilities as well so that doesn't interfere with their job responsibilities. Prepare a realistic timetable for grooming an executive. It will also be easier to handover higher responsibilities / promotion to your him / her if you have developed a realistic timetable for the transition.
If the number of employees you want to groom are quite large in number, then the idea of combination of training methodology should be adopted. Like a judgemental combination of on-the-job-training and class-room-training
A role play, case studies, scenarios, etc can help the employee to learn without putting the company at risk of an amature's decision, which generally is a drawback of on the job training at managerial level
From India, Ahmadabad
35Is the executive / manager is doing the job just because he or she can't decide on a career? Is the young adult entering the job because he or she got it as first job out of college and not out of will? Have they had trouble finding or keeping another job?
If you answer yes to any of these four questions, then the chances are that they might not be your long term employees.. If so it would not be economically feasible to groom them as future managers.
If you have decided on the employees you need to groom into future managers / leaders, decide the department / field that you intend them to excel in.. Make his / her superior his mentor.
Re-define their job duties
Specifically decide what roles they will play in the company and how it would help them develop. Edit the job responsibilities so that they are involved in more decision making work and less of routine work. Realize that they will make mistakes and don't be harder on them. Keep a occassional check on their crucial decisions
Don't spend your days looking over their shoulders
Your future managers must have some power and responsibility or your other employees won't respect them. Find something his superior could do, change his superior's job responsibilities as well so that doesn't interfere with their job responsibilities. Prepare a realistic timetable for grooming an executive. It will also be easier to handover higher responsibilities / promotion to your him / her if you have developed a realistic timetable for the transition.
If the number of employees you want to groom are quite large in number, then the idea of combination of training methodology should be adopted. Like a judgemental combination of on-the-job-training and class-room-training
A role play, case studies, scenarios, etc can help the employee to learn without putting the company at risk of an amature's decision, which generally is a drawback of on the job training at managerial level
From India, Ahmadabad
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