Managing & Developing People
- 9 Courses | 6h 4m 40s
- 6 Books | 11h 21m
- 10 Audiobooks | 28h 31m 23s
Explore strategies and techniques for developing your team members and optimizing the performance of individuals on your team. Here, you'll learn creative strategies for team development.
GETTING STARTED
Assessing Your Organization's Potential for High Performance
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1m 25s
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5m 33s
COURSES INCLUDED
Assessing Your Organization's Potential for High Performance
In an ever-changing world, it's essential that organizations reach high levels of performance to stay relevant and successful. To survive and thrive, organizations must be able to adjust quickly while maintaining high performance. In this course, you'll learn to identify the success factors for high performance in an organization and to measure the key components of high performance. You'll also be able to recognize the aspects of work culture leading to a high-performing organization and explore the competencies that high-performing leaders possess.
6 videos |
22m
Assessment
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Working Collaboratively with Experts
Today's workplace pushes managers to explore new strategies to succeed. It's not possible for one person to master everything that's required for success - you need experts. Experts have the knowledge and skill to come up with unique perspectives and explore innovative strategies. And while they have unique perspectives, they have unique needs too. In this course, you'll learn what makes experts so valuable to organizations and what methods will help you get the best results from them. You'll also learn ways to partner with experts to give them what they require and strategies to overcome difficulties that arise from working with challenging experts.
6 videos |
23m
Assessment
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Effectively Directing and Delegating as a Manager
Understanding the essential responsibilities you have when directing and delegating to others, and the practices you should employ in order to meet those responsibilities, will lead to you fulfilling your duties and realizing the potential of your entire team. This course provides information on the key proficiencies of managing people, such as setting direction and establishing clear objectives and goals for your direct reports. It discusses the importance of organizing, as well as communicating for clarity and direction. It also covers the best practices for planning delegation and the techniques you need to carry through with delegation. Finally, the course details the importance of monitoring delegated tasks to ensure employees are on the right track.
7 videos |
21m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Managing Employee Development
Smart companies have learned that supporting continuous learning and self-development among employees reaps dividends in productivity and employee retention rates. As a manager, you're responsible for developing people, which includes developing talent in your direct reports. In this course, you'll learn about the benefits of developing employees and assessing how their development needs can be addressed through organizational learning. You'll then learn how to prepare for and conduct a development meeting that includes the necessary development plan characteristics and support for your employees.
7 videos |
23m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Managing for Cross-functionality
Working on a team with employees from different departments can be a huge challenge. These types of teams often consist of people with different talents, goals, and communication styles. This is why effective cross-functional management is so important. This involves managing teams in a way that bridges the functional silos that constrain your organization. Managing for cross-functionality also means using team leadership skills to support collaboration and teamwork between different departments. This course defines organizational cross-functionality and its benefits. It helps you develop techniques to support a cross-functional strategy throughout your organization. And it shows you how different types of knowledge management systems can play a role in implementing that strategy.
6 videos |
19m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Managing Your Company's Talent
Some of the core responsibilities for a HR manager are recruiting, hiring, developing, and retaining talent that will drive an organization's performance. For many prospective recruits, their ideal company is one that values and develops employees. To meet these goals and desires, you'll need an effective talent management plan. In this course, you'll learn why acquiring talent and effectively managing it is so important to an organization's success. You'll discover how to create a strategy that not only develops talent in your company, but that also retains it in the long term. You'll also learn about the key activities associated with talent management and the roles played by managers in implementing a talent management strategy.
8 videos |
23m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Talent Development and Transformation: Developing the People You Lead: Session Replay
This is a recorded replay of the Talent Development and Transformation: Developing the People You Lead Leadercamp Live session that ran on January 20th at 2 PM ET led by Luisa Golgini, Senior Customer Success Manager at Skillsoft. Luisa is joined by Dr, Tan Morales, Global Vice President of Talent Transformation at Equifax. Learning and development is a life-long journey. It enables us to adapt to an ever-changing and evolving world by evolving our mindsets and capabilities. Individual and team development must be a priority for individuals and teams when seeking a competitive edge in the marketplace. This session will help you learn: • Motivational factors and actions for developing your team and managing their performance • Overcome common myths about development, and how to mitigate the challenges leaders face in developing their people • Coaching principles that will guide you in helping your team members reach their full potential
1 video |
1h 30m
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Leadercamp on-demand: Business Acumen Series on People
The heart of every business is its people. No rules, processes, marketing, or strategy will make an operation successful unless you focus on the people. This Leadercamp examines key tools you can use to inspire, motivate, manage, and develop your people to get the most out of your team by developing underperformers and retaining high performers. In this fifth Leadercamp in the five-part Business Acumen Series, PMP and managing partner at Lemmex Williams Training Merri Lemmex explores the strategies you can apply to ensure your people remain the driving force of your organization's success.
1 video |
52m
Assessment
Badge
Talent Development and Transformation: Learning (and Leading) for Today and the Future: Session Replay
This is a recorded replay of the Talent Development and Transformation: Learning (and Leading) for Today and the Future Leadercamp Live session that ran on January 21st at 2 PM ET led by Benny Ramos, Solution Principal, Leadership & Business Solutions at Skillsoft. With rapid changes in technology demands and uncertainties related to the global pandemic, organizational growth hinges on employees with the right behavioral and technical competencies. Though digital transformation creates tremendous opportunities to address many challenges in our current time, it requires people to leverage the investment in these technologies, and leadership development which is agile and innovative to maintain engagement and morale. Join this session to gain insights into: • A look at what is driving the need for upskilling and reskilling. • Why planning for new leadership and business mindsets now is so important • How to build a successful development program in the digital era
1 video |
1h 27m
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BOOK SUMMARY
Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex WorldIn Changing on the Job, author Jennifer Garvey Berger presents ways to measure growth and offers advice on how to sustain change. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Jennifer Garvey Berger
Book
Learning Analytics: Measurement Innovations to Support Employee DevelopmentProviding a framework for understanding how to work with learning analytics, this book shows learning & development and HR practitioners the power that effective analytics has on building an organization and the impact this power has on performance, talent management, and competitive advantage.
3h 46m
By Jean Martin, John R Mattox II, Mark Van Buren
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The Manager's Guide to Employee DevelopmentA primer intended for managers, human resources professionals, and others, this practical, go-to guide explains why career development is important to the organization, employee, and manager, how to lead successful development discussions, and more.
25m
By David Hosmer
Book
Coaching For Peak Employee Performance: A Practical Guide to Supporting Employee Development, Second EditionThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
57m
By Bill Foster, Karen R. Seeker
Book
Employee Development on A ShoestringA handy tool kit for any employee developer, this book provides templates and detailed guidelines to help busy managers develop their workforce in a way that is tailored to each employee's strengths, development needs, and constraints without breaking the bank.
3h 2m
By Halelly Azulay
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Leading the Unleadable: How to Manage Mavericks, Cynics, Divas, and Other Difficult PeopleWritten by an insider in the tech industry, where personality issues routinely wreck projects, this book offers simple steps, examples, and scripts that explain how to right even the most hopeless situations.
3h 4m
By Alan Willett
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
ManagingManaging makes a compelling case that true management skills cannot be taught in a classroom, and can only be learned through experience. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
21m 14s
By Henry Mintzberg
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the NavyIt's Your Ship shows you how to extract the best from your team, ensure your business is operating at peak efficiency, and ultimately set a course for success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
12m 56s
By D. Michael Abrashoff
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The Tao of Coaching: Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around YouThe Tao of Coaching is an engaging and practical guide to negotiating leadership in the changing corporate world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
12m 3s
By Max Landsberg
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Toolkit for Developing and Empowering People, Third Edition50 Top Tools for Coaching provides you with everything you need to know to motivate and guide others towards success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
21m 34s
By Gillian Jones, Ro Gorell
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Developing Employees Who Love to Learn: Tools, Strategies, and Programs for Promoting Learning at WorkDeveloping Employees Who Love to Learn provides an engaging and thorough look at why continuing education for employees matters, and how to implement it in your business. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
9m 23s
By Linda Honold
Audiobook
The Stay Interview: A Manager's Guide to Keeping the Best and BrightestThis audio edition introduces managers to a powerful new engagement and retention tool - stay interviews - in order to discover why their important talent might leave and to solve any problems before they actually quit.
3h 3m 58s
By Richard P. Finnegan
Audiobook
Self as Coach, Self as Leader: Developing the Best in You to Develop the Best in OthersThis audio edition shows you how to become a more effective leader by discovering the resources you already have.
6h 11m 49s
By Pamela McLean
Audiobook
Turning People into Teams: Rituals and Routines That Redesign How We WorkThis audio edition is a practical guide for project team leaders and individual contributors who want their teams to play by a better set of rules. Read by one of the authors.
4h 25m 45s
By David Sherwin, Mary Sherwin
Audiobook
Management Success Made SimpleThis audio edition offers priceless lessons to set you on the road to management success. Read by the author.
10h 39m 41s
By Brian Tracy
Audiobook
Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want, 2nd EditionThis audio edition reveals that frequent, short conversations with employees about themselves, their goals, and the business that can be integrated seamlessly into the normal course of business.
2h 53m
By Beverly Kaye, Julie Winkle Giulioni
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Developing Others
Smart companies have learned that supporting continuous learning and self-development among employees reaps dividends in productivity and employee retention rates. As a manager, you're responsible for developing people, which includes developing talent in your direct reports through planning, coaching, mentoring, and feedback. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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