Growing People: Learning And Developing From Day To Day Experience

Summary: This book offers managers and human resources professionals both a strategic approach and a practical guide to developing people. It explores how a manager can build the capability of individuals, teams and organisations by providing people with challenging experiences and helping them to learn from these experiences. It shows how to create conversations that make a real difference and how to establish effective relationships. It also sets out a practical approach to identifying and nurturing talent and managing succession issues. Key Features: 1.Written by an experienced management development professional in clear and easily understood language 2.Aimed at busy line managers who want to take seriously their role in developing people 3.Chapters can be read as stand alone guides to topics such as coaching, feedback and talent management 4.Addresses both how to support the development of individuals and how to build effective teams and organisations 5.Contains practical exercises for self development and building teams The Author: Bob Thomson is the Management Development Adviser at the University of Warwick. He is responsible for developing the leadership capability of academic and administrative staff, coaching individuals and teams, and helping departments to improve their effectiveness as an organisation. He was previously Leadership Development Manager for a major UK company where he was responsible for building leadership capability at all levels and shifting the culture to a more open, informal and coaching style of leadership. Bob has qualifications in management learning, coaching and counselling. Readership: The book is aimed at managers at all levels, team leaders, supervisors, human resource professionals, and management development consultants. Contents: Learning from experience - deep and sustained learning comes through experience, which is reflected upon and made sense of The manager as coach - how busy line managers can adopt a coaching approach to managing and developing people Feedback - giving, generating and gathering feedback, including 360-degree feedback Mentoring - guidelines on using experienced managers to mentor younger employees Building teams and organisations - using learning from experience to develop teams and to create a learning organisation Creating relationships - using emotional intelligence to create healthy relationships and achieve high performance Conversations that make a difference - how to discuss the real issues and address underlying concerns Talent management - identifying talented people and offering them challenging experiences is the key to succession management