Title: Effective Leadership Training for Mid-Level Leaders - Training Industry
Headings: Effective Leadership Training for Mid-Level Leaders
Effective Leadership Training for Mid-Level Leaders
Training Mid-Level Leaders
It's important to provide relevant and immediately applicable learning experiences to mid-level leaders.
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Aligning Training and Demonstrating Impact
It’s more important than ever to make sure mid-level leaders are prepared to succeed in their critical roles.
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Content: After training, coaching and feedback on the job is critical to helping managers retain and apply what they’ve learned. Twitter Social Icon
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Aligning Training and Demonstrating Impact
When developing leadership training, meet with senior executives to understand business priorities and make sure the training is focused on the right skills. “ Establish direct connections between the capabilities targeted in a program and the strategic priorities of the organization,” Axon says. Involving executives from the start also demonstrates the importance of the program to participants. “As with all employee development and training,” Sturgeon says, “mid-level leadership development is key in improving productivity, increasing employee engagement and retention, helping employees feel valued, and [improving] prospects for succession planning and sustainable leadership across the business” – all key organizational goals. When leaders across the middle level of the organizational hierarchy have shared training experiences and a common leadership language, they will be able to better align functions across the business. Using business impact projects in the training can demonstrate clear impact on results if they address business goals, Axon says. “ These projects provide a way to measure the impact that a leadership development program has on the business by capturing how the learning was used to address the business change.” It also makes learning contextual, which boosts the impact on the learner. Using business impact projects in the training can demonstrate clear impact on results if they address business goals.