Top tips for Preparing Emerging Managers
When you spot a team member with the potential to grow, it pays to ensure that they are prepared for the challenges of management, rather than learning the hard way. Here are some training tips to help you promote your top talent with confidence:
- share your vision of a long term goal with your emerging manager, seeing things from your perspective will boost focus and morale
- allow them to manage a project or specific work stream before you promote them fully
- pair them up with a mentor or buddy to coach and support their growth
- set clear expectations of what developments you expect to see, and by when
- devise a suitable career development programme, using a tool like Prism
- provide in-house or external corporate training in assertiveness, delegation, motivation and presentation skills
- work through a set of real or imagined management scenarios, to apply learning and test progress
- allow them to stretch, take risks, make mistakes, test new approaches to problems and find innovative solutions – always with your backup and support
- congratulate them on every success
- demonstrate the importance of a culture of honesty, trust, integrity and humour.