Improving Managerial Talent: Practical Psychology for Human Resourcing and Learning & Development Professionals

  • 2h 22m
  • Hugh McCredie
  • Taylor and Francis
  • 2018

Aimed at senior HRM and L&D specialists responsible for improving their organisation’s managerial talent, Improving Managerial Talent covers the core findings of the author’s and other published research. It provides a highly participative overview of personality and ability psychometrics, involving the opportunity for self-application. It reveals hard evidence of the extent to which such tests can add value to the prediction of managerial success and their link to requisite competencies. It shows how qualified testers, HR and line managers can each make a unique contribution to the selection process. The book goes on to show how management style is a product of personality and habit and how the acquisition and use of a complementary style can improve persuasiveness and the cultivation of interpersonal skill both for the manager and for those whom the manager might need to coach. It regards job-challenge as the primary engine of managerial growth, both for development in key result areas and for underlying personal competencies.

The book provides the reader with some self-insights and an appreciation of validated, powerful, often in-house, methods for selecting and developing better managers. The methods on offer have been validated on a population of over 400 directors of small to medium-sized business units. They include a generic psychometric algorithm for the selection of managers, some unique findings on styles of managing, coaching and persuading based upon close observation of over 200 senior managers and a distinctive and powerful approach to developing interpersonal skills by (1) practice, (2) demonstration of alternatives and (3) reflection.

About the Author

Hugh McCredie, Chartered FCIPD, CPsychol, FBPsS, is a HR practitioner/researcher, specialising in management assessment and development. He collected data to improve selection and development methods and for the submission of successful MSc (Research) and PhD theses.

In this Book

  • What Contributes to Overall Managerial Performance?
  • What Type of Evidence Will be Considered?
  • Mental Abilities and Personality Traits
  • General Mental Ability
  • Extraversion
  • Agreeableness
  • Extraversion and Agreeableness in Combination
  • Conscientiousness
  • Agreeableness and Conscientiousness in Combination
  • Neuroticism (Aka Emotional Variability) or Stability?
  • Extraversion and Emotional Variability in Combination
  • Openness
  • Summarising the General Mental Ability and Personality Traits of Average and High-Performing Managers
  • Harnessing Personality and Iq Test Scores to Guide Selection
  • Recognising Potentially Dysfunctional Personalities
  • Leadership and Personality
  • Is Personality Stable or 'plastic'?
  • Moving on to Personal Competencies
  • Competency Clusters and Overall Managerial Performance
  • Drawing the Threads Together
  • Performance in Key Result Areas
  • Management Behaviours
  • Behavioural Styles
  • Developing Managerial Talent
  • Coaching Around Competencies
  • Coaching for Interpersonal Competencies: Briefing
  • Coaching for Interpersonal Competencies: Reviewing
  • Developing Line Manager Coaching Skills
  • Using the Contrasting Ask/Tell Styles to Develop Interpersonal Competency
  • Quick Coaching
  • High Intensity Training in Influencing and Persuasion
  • The 'win-win' Perspective
  • Is Management Right for You?
  • How to Recognise Potential, Select and Help Develop Effective Managers
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