Questions this tool is designed to help you answer
- How do I make sense of the value of existing expenditure on management development?
- How do I get those accountable for leading development to build a shared agenda with our business team?
- How can I refocus investment to support our current and future business plans?
Key benefits of this tool
For you:
- Help in thinking through your strategic contribution to the performance of the organisation.
- Develop a shared agenda for investing in management capability with senior colleagues
- Clarify priorities and develop effective implementation plans for management development.
For your organisation:
- Establish a clear framework for evaluating the business benefits of management development.
- Enhance the integration of management development and business planning.
- Review existing expenditure and ensure future investment sustains both current and future performance.
Who is this tool for?
- Organisations undertaking a major change programme where management capability is key to its success.
- Organisations wishing to review their management development strategy.
- HR and development professionals with senior management responsibilities.
- Heads of management and leadership development
What's in the tool?
- A process framework for identifying and delivering business-focused management development. The framework is based on the practice of over 400 executives and was published in the CIPD Executive Briefing, Developing managers for business performance, in 2002.
The process framework includes:
- outline presentations for building the business case for investing in management
- diagnostics to help clarify performance imperatives and create and prioritise a shared agenda for action
- good-practice insights, tips, exercises and tools for conducting and managing a review of existing and future management capability, including stakeholder management
- tools for measuring investment returns from management development
- a framework for conducting an after-action review
- a case example to show how the tools can be applied in your organisation.