How Managers can Develop Managers

Most managers will cite the help and support of colleagues, rather than formal management training, as particularly valuable in their own development. Coaching, mentoring, facilitating and Action Learning are all about doing precisely this. And areas in which Alan Mumford is a leading authority.

This bestselling book is a workbook for all managers of people, not just for the management development specialist. It focuses in real-life scenarios, showing how they can be used to help your colleagues to develop their own skills.Brief exercises help you to critique your own style, and provide a useful basis for real exercises you could use with your own team.

If you agree that the development of others is no less than a responsibility, then you are truly on the way to working for a learning organization. Which is very good news for your own future too.

• Part I: How Managers Learn
1. What managers do
2. Management and learning
3. Opportunities for learning
4. The learning process
• Part II: The Art and Craft of Developing Managers
5. Ways of helping
6. The helping relationship
7. Helping individuals to learn
8. Learning in groups
9. Formal development for individuals
10. Formal development for groups
11. How to be helped
12. Develop yourself
13. Towards the learning organisation
• Appendix: The role of the professional adviser

This is a must read. Enough said.