Purposeful Talent Development: How to create the right curriculum for your managers’ learning

Teaching managers how to do their jobs better is often overlooked—but shouldn’t be.

At CUES we’ve been talking a lot lately about the pressure credit union managers feel between the performance focus of leadership and the day-to-day needs of their direct reports. We’ve considered how managers’ development is often overlooked, especially when high-performing individual contributors are promoted to management but not trained in the success skills required for that new role. We’ve also discussed approaches to offering development today managers.

Today we’re going to look at how to determine what exactly your managers need to learn. In educational parlance, we’re going to talk about how you can define an effective management development curriculum—the combination of courses your managers will need to take and other learning experiences your managers will need to have to excel in their roles.

1. Leadership must emphasize the development of managers

 

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