Improving Leadership and Management Skills

When times are tough leadership and people management skills go to the top of the agenda.

How do you make sure your managers are spending the right amount of effort with the right people and that they’re working on the issues that will bring the biggest benefit to your business? In other words, are your management team improving performance and reducing costs.

65% of businesses say they need to focus on leadership skills and 55% on front-line people management skills in order to meet their objectives in two years’ time.

To develop leadership and management skills companies are increasingly turning their attention to the use of personality profiling and psychometric testing to see how they can best improve their management teams’ performance. The simplest of these to use is profiling and one well known system is the Personality Profiling Analysis (PPA) by Thomas International. In just 8 minutes a PPA will boost your managers’ ability to manage, motivate and communicate. As a result companies get an accurate insight into how their people behave at work, their strengths and limitations and importantly, what motivates them.

A PPA supports fast-track managers by providing a rapid understanding of the strengths and limitations of their people. It pinpoints the areas that need developing and it will boost managers’ ability to motivate and communicate on an individual and team level.

In brief a PPA can indicate:

• What are a person’s strengths and limitations?
• How can they be better motivated?
• What’s the best way of communicating with this person to get the best out of them?
• Is this person showing frustrations in their role?
• Is your business playing to this employee’s strengths?

What this means is that in something like 8 – 10 minutes not only do you have a PPA, you also access to some 18 additional reports, including a How to Manage Guide, that enable you to have open discussions, appreciate how to motivate and engage your people.
All of which means managers will improve their leadership abilities and staff will be clear on their performance objectives.

8 minutes well spent!

Mike is a recruitment specialist with nearly two and a half decades in executive search recruitment (headhunting) in the UK and Europe. His business, Thomas Butler Associates, is linked to the GRL Group more details of which can be found on their website www.grl.org.uk

A keen proponent of personality profiling and psychometric testing, he uses these tools to help individuals make the right choices for career and personal growth and to support team development, leading to improved performance and cost savings for companies and organisations.