Developing Your Staff
Published With: The Sunday Times
One of the major tasks facing any manager is the challenge of maximizing staff performance. Developing Your Staff looks at a range of factors associated with this issue, such as motivation and development, assessing competencies, delegation, training and career implications.
One of the major tasks facing any manager is the challenge of maximising staff efficiency and performance. Good development is essential to achieving results, but, although a necessity, it doesn't happen automatically.
Developing Your Staff will help you construct and implement development policies and action plans for your staff. It reviews both major and minor training activities of all kinds, showing how to maximise their effectiveness. Reliable advice is provided on the following issues:
- assessing competencies;
- selecting the right training activity;
- on-the-job training;
- delegation and development;
- monitoring progress;
- accommodating career implications.
Good staff and good performance are fundamental to success in this fast-changing and competitive world. Whatever your level of management, this book will help to ensure the success of your team, section or organisation through sound, systematic staff development.
BOOK DETAILS :Paperback, 128 Pages, Dimensions 234 x 142 MM Language English.
1. attitudes to development
2. assessing competencies
3. the development task
4. delegation as an aid to development
5. on-the-job training
6. horses for courses
7. long-term training
8. monitoring progress
9. career implications
Patrick Forsyth runs Touchstone Training & Consultancy, which specialises in training in various personal skills necessary to marketing, communications and management.
He is the author of many books, including Marketing Stripped Bare , Powerful Reports and Proposals, Successful Time Management , Getting a Top Jobin Marketing and Marketing (all published by Kogan Page).