Importance of Providing the Right HR Tools & Development to Your Managers 

Principle 3 is to provide your managers with HR tools to ensure role clarity, drive the right behaviours, manage performance and develop employees.

Probably one of the most important principles is around the utilisation and capability of your managers. Having high performing managers who feel confident in their skills, have access to the right tools, are having effective performance conversations and developing their team will show immediate business impact.

Investing in the development and upskilling of great people managers helps you create culture curators who are driving your guiding behaviours within the organisation. As a result, they will then reinforce those within their teams. Giving your line managers the skills, confidence and resources to have effective performance conversations can nip issues in the bud before they escalate.

In a very competitive labour market as well, it’s important to understand the impact effective or ineffective management has on the employee experience. People will often leave their manager rather than the organisation.

Finally, having managers who are not able to effectively manage their team results in those responsibilities being absorbed by someone else, most commonly the senior team. It’s so common that we see senior leaders filling this void which is taking them away from activities that may be a more effective use of their time.

Investing in your line manager development through a variety of training and coaching initiatives is key and will pay dividends. 

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