We are talking a lot about innovation, digital transformation, sustainable performance … but too rarely the real engine that runs a business: the teams. Today, management can no longer be considered a simple function among others. It is a pillar of the company that allows its proper functioning.
Management is learned
However, in fact, many organizations continue to underestimate its impact. She does not linger on the training she finds superfluous. Indeed, managerial skills are seen as innate or supposed to be acquired as soon as a position of responsibility is accessed. Result: the training is relegated to the background, when it is not completely forgotten.
And that’s where the shoe is pinches. Because the world of work has changed and continues to evolve quickly and in depth: digitalization of processes, telework, new expectations of employees, requirement of performance and well-being … Without a trained, human and agile management, it has become difficult to follow the pace. This is even more true if you want to create a solid, healthy and durable team dynamic.
Manager, it’s much more than “led a team”
If these thoughts dominate, it is because, for a long time, the role of the manager has been reduced to a hierarchical posture. He was content to set objectives, distribute the tasks and control their execution. But this vertical vision no longer works. Today’s manager does not just pilot an Excel table since he must both embody, transmit, listen and adjust. Indeed, he must juggle as much with operational imperatives as with listening to humans who make up his team.
Because the role is now more complex. It implies being both the guarantor of the results but also the guardian of cohesion. This implies finding the balance between performance and well-being or between strategic management and individual support.
And that cannot be improvised. Manager effectively, this implies mastering a very specific base of skills: organization, communication, leadership, conflict management, team animation, feedback posture … So many roles that require hindsight, method and … training.
Yes but why has managers become so important?
It is not only a question of “strengthening skills”. To form a manager is to make him able to face a complex, moving, sometimes tense reality. It is to help him understand the new teams’ expectations, to better manage pressure or to make fair and lasting decisions.
A trained manager is a manager who knows where he is going, how to go and with whom. He must inspire confidence and soothe tensions instead of amplifying them. Above all, he must embody the values of the company and make the link between the strategic challenges of the top and the needs of the field. Otherwise, the consequences on the company can quickly be felt.
Also, you have to keep in mind the immediate profits for the company: more committed teams, less absenteeism, reduced turnover, reinforced corporate culture and better reactivity in the face of crises and changes, to name a few.
In short, investing in managerial training is not a cost. It is a real lever of transformation.
But then, how to form your managers well?
There is no ready -made solution. Each company has its challenges, its culture, its pace. Flexible formats are therefore needed, adaptable and often anchored in the concrete. Above all, the contents must be aligned with the reality on the ground.
Some organizations will prefer face -to -face, to create a real group dynamic. Others will bet on online training, for flexibility and ease of deployment. More and more, hybrid formats are essential: an intelligent mix between human support and digital tools.
And then there is coaching, individual or collective. Mentoring. Co-development workshops. All these complementary approaches that allow you to work on real situations, concrete blockages and personal postures.
However, new practices tend to no longer separate the theory of practice or to no longer cut the managerial competence into abstract slices. It is a question of working on living things, true and especially everyday life.
The example of skillsday
At Skillsday, we start from a simple principle: forming a manager is not “Fill a box” On a training plan. It is to give him the means to act with confidence, impact and accuracy.
This is why Skillsday offers a catalog of training which is aimed at all managerial profiles (from local manager to the directing frame) with flexible formats, up-to-date content, and above all a strong anchoring in the challenges of the moment: benevolent leadership, hybrid management, authentic communication, prevention of psycho-social risks, agile piloting,…
The idea is no longer to “train to train” but to create real awareness, to change practices and above all to strengthen the managerial posture on a daily basis. And this, without ever losing sight of the essential: human.
To support you in the development of managerial skills, discover the Skillsday management training catalog.
