Saturday, June 4, 2011

Modern Management Training For The Modern Organization

By Sally Butcher


Management training today is all about teaching managers to lead. Business today is in many respects more complex than simple, but developing the manager to lead has been a modern effective model for organizational education today. Current market conditions and a global economy share one thing in common with conditions of the past: change is constant. Despite this, organizations are in existence to serve a social need. Developing managers to lead is both traditional and modern.

Historically, an organization would have considered its biggest asset their financial holding, technology, or machinery. Organizations today appreciate the large asset they have in their people. The modern organization invests in this asset through preparing their managers to lead.

The modern organization supports its people starting with clear goals and objectives. This allows leaders to align themselves with similar common goals and objectives. One primary way an organization can offer its employees clear goals and objectives is through its organizational chart. This outline provides a clear map ahead of the organization and its employees.

Teaching managers to lead begins with defined leaders and clear roles and responsibilities for all. Academics have narrowed down the four major functions of management to include planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. The skills to perform them include applying expertise, working with and motivating people in groups and individually, and analyzing complex situations. Through clear responsibilities and roles, management education has taken a more personal approach.

Common functions of the manager who leads are very reliant on people skills or how one interacts with ones colleagues. Activities like making decisions, exchanging the daily quintessential information, motivating colleagues, disciplining and initiating key learning from failure, and managing conflict all rely mainly on interactions with others. Advancing and sharpening these interpersonal skills is a large key to becoming an effective, successful manager.

Most organizations have formal management plans and even self-implemented tools available to employees. Both are extremely effective tools for developing and sharpening skills. With common goals and a teamwork spirit an organization endeavors to improve itself through both self-guided development tools and a formal management training program alike.

Modern leadership training produces a more social person with better people skills. Historically organizations and their training efforts have improved overall performance through machinery or technology. But the modern organization has learned the value of the individual and provides clear visions and values throughout the organization while furthering the organization.




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