Tagged: management education

What New Managers Need to Know… and How We Educate Them – (Part 2 of 2)

What New Managers Need to Know… and How We Educate Them – (Part 2 of 2)

 If you recall, our previous blog post (Part 1) described the frustration and high failure rate associated with managers who have been magically transformed from staff person to manager by internal promotion or who have been hired externally and lack familiarity with your organization’s culture and procedures.  I suggested that to combat this chronic problem a low cost management orientation and education program can be designed and presented entirely in-house.  While the Human Resources and Organizational Development function can […]

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What New Managers Need to Know… and How We Educate Them – (Part 1 of 2)

What New Managers Need to Know… and How We Educate Them – (Part 1 of 2)

When you hire a new manager in your organization how do you prepare them to actually manage people in your unique environment?  Is it the same process whether you hire from the outside or promote from within or whether they have some supervisory experience or have never managed a person in their life?  Often we mistakenly assume that because someone has survived the interviewing and assessment process and been selected for the job that she […]

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