Management Development

Who is the most important person in your organisation? It’s a difficult question. Is it the CEO or is it the new office apprentice? What if that new office apprentice will one day re-invent your organisation with their ideas and creativity and go on to become a world renowned inspirational leader; who knows...? Indeed, some of those office apprentices we worked with a decade ago are the leaders of today who are now engaging us to work with their own teams.

The one constant factor is that the most successful organisations we work with have the most inspirational leaders and the most competent management teams. The reverse remains constant too; under-performing organisations are usually characterised by poor leadership and incompetent management.

That is why developing leaders and managers should be at the very heart of your organisational development strategy. It’s not a peripheral activity, it’s not an afterthought. If you want your organisation to succeed then you need leaders and managers that have the competitive advantage over their peers.

Maguire have successfully helped managers and leaders on the Pathway to Excellence by adopting an innovative and dynamic approach to development that includes:

• Emotional intelligence
• Resilience and durability
• Creativity and flair
• Adaptability to change
• Sound judgement

Utilising tools such as 360° feedback, coaching, psychometric testing and personality profiling to help create individual development plans for managers and leaders, we then task them with ensuring their learning is embedded by challenging them to complete specific work-based projects at each stage of their development.

As they learn to communicate more effectively, improve their judgment and their ability to engage and coach their teams they are able to transform their own management or leadership style. This affords them many more choices when it comes to responding in dynamic working environments.

Graduates of our management and leadership programmes report back to us regularly as we track their flourishing careers. We can identify many common aspects of their behaviour but what characterises them is defined by much more than just knowledge or skill. They are:

• Unafraid of recruiting and then nurturing talent
• Needy for ideas and innovation
• Visionaries and agents for change and progress
• Believers in their people above all else

Our objective is to develop and inspire your leaders and managers; to transform good managers and leaders into great ones. This is the core purpose of every learning solution that we build.