Management Development
Using our management development programmes can help as part of your work in building effective teams and getting better performance out of your staff.
As specialists in these types of programmes, we tailor them to suit your individual college needs. Whether you want a general drive to boost the focus of managers on key priorities, or need help to rebuild confidence after a merger, we have a whole range of programmes to help:
360-Degree Appraisal
A professional 360 Degree Appraisal can help if you are embarking on a programme of organisational or managerial development. We have an on-line system that can generate bespoke questionnaires using our established item bank, or we can work with you to develop a 360 which matches your key criteria for success – be it a competence framework or some other system of performance measures. And it doesn’t cost the earth. Set up is in the hundreds of pounds, not thousands as many systems are. It is all on-line and has self nomination or controlled nomination – whichever suits best. Output is clear and easily understood graphics. We provide professional 1:1 feedback too.
Teambuilding
We can develop customised workshops or events to help build new teams, or help groups of staff develop creative solutions to everyday problems thereby making that extra contribution to your College’s work. We have worked with many organisations in this way including developing and defining employee consultative forums which help you consult and involve more effectively.
Staff Attitude Surveys
It's important to keep track of how your employees are feeling as a means of identifying issues that require management attention.
Many employers don't have the time to carry out the research necessary to maintain good working relations with their employees. We have on-line technology at our fingertips and the expertise in establishing staff surveys so that working together we can help you implement an effective survey with results that are confidentially collated and presented in an easy to understand graphical format.
Staff consultation questionniares
Using the same technology, perhaps you’d like to avoid the “questionnaire fatigue” that often strikes staff and use our cost effective expertise and technology to implement a survey that actually asks staff for answers and suggestions? It means that you can hone in on an important area of future management action and properly involve staff in seeking practical solutions, as well as providing you with tangible evidence about how seriously the issue is regarded by staff.
Working with Managers
When dealing with complex and awkward issues, many find it easier to bring in an experienced facilitator. It is their role to make sure that all those difficult questions are asked and answered and that your meetings are structured and directed. We have helped a number of organisations on the following issues:
- Building a new team after change or a recruitment drive
- Working with senior teams to help them identify priorities for redesign
- Facilitating away-days so that managers get the best out of the time
In-house Management Training
HR4FE can provide a range of in-house managerial skills training and development much of which is built to your specification.
We can also devise a complete management development programme specifically for your organisation, helping your managers learn and develop to the level needed to push your organisation forward and giving them the confidence to manage staff effectively.
The titles below are those we have delivered but if the topic you want to cover doesn’t appear in the list below give us a call to see if we can help you.
Leadership and management
We have often been asked to give managers a one-day “taster” of leadership and management issues in the workplace and can design a programme which enables your issues to be addressed whilst at the same time giving managers an insight to this interesting topic, which helps them reflect on their own performance.
Management of Absence
Helping managers reduce absenteeism and giving them clear guidance on how to deal with potentially difficult situations with staff is the core of this one-day programme. It includes clear guidance on what is and what is not permissible when dealing with staff absence.
Handling Discipline and Grievance
Hopefully many managers will never face having to deal with disciplinary matters and grievances, but being realistic this is unlikely. Our one-day workshop is an introduction to the correct approach for managers to take and an introduction to the skills required to handle these difficult issues.
Improving Employee Performance
Bringing underperformance up to scratch is a testing task for managers. This one-day programme focuses managers on the issue of underperformance and how to get the best out of their staff. It can also be tailored to cover your capability procedures and give an introduction to the skills required, and the right approach to be taken in issues of poor performance.
Recruitment and Selection
Making the right choices in recruitment is essential for any organisation. As experts in the recruitment of mangers to the education sector we can help managers follow best practice and learn the right skills to be accredited as able to conduct their own recruitment. Or, alternatively we can deliver a one-day programme to help managers make the right choices.
Other Courses
Apart from the courses already mentioned, we regularly provide training on the following:
- Appraisal Skills
- Interview skills - for interviewers and interviewees
- Negotiation skills focussing on negotiations with employee representatives
- Presentation skills
- Sales skills/customer care
Have a question for us? You can call us on 01908 423353 or fill in the enquiry form below – we’ll get back to you with an answer as soon as we pick it up:
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