Good organizations are responsible for empowering managers to develop their soft skills, adapt learning to everyone in a team, and take communication efforts to a level where the difference between working remotely and being in an office becomes unobservable.
For way too long, employees have been seen as one more helping hand.
Professional and personal lives were blurred — an issue that prevailed in the remote workplace as employees found it difficult to draw the line between life at home and their work duties.
The future leaves no room nor time for managers who can’t understand the individual and its independent needs and struggles. Managers need to see their people as people. For employees to be productive at work and find their work experience meaningful, leaders must acquire new soft skills along with technical ones.
Here’s a brief list of ways in which you can develop your managers’ soft skills:
1. Foster a culture where mentors are the drivers behind professional development
2. Offer personalized programs that cater to every individual’s learning style and needs
3. Have the people who’ve already nailed particular soft skills become coaches for others
4. Use technology to track goals and have frequent check-ins with your team
5. Align the soft skills your managers learn with their own culture
6. Don’t demand change overnight. Make soft-skills learning an ongoing habit
Train managers to base development on individual employee needs, rather than a standardized approach to suit everyone.
When it comes to the outcomes, managers will know their people, understand their requirements, and be invested in their own learning and development.
As the catalysts for learning, managers have an important role that needs development. Promoting a learning culture from day one is important for organizations looking to unlock the potential of their individuals.
What does this mean for the organization as a whole? Better employee engagement, lower turnover rates, increased employee happiness, and a highly-skilled talent you can always rely on.
The Cegid Talentsoft Training Platform tool allows you to create customizable learning paths for both your managers and employees. The “hybrid learning” method combines traditional class experiences and digital courses. Peer-to-peer chat and the LMS community support the set up of a learning culture even for new hires during the early onboarding stage.
Rethink your communication and work processes to keep everyone on the same page and eliminate potential bottlenecks.
Poor communication leads to loads of errors and misunderstandings that would require extra time and resources to fix. Integration with your team collaboration or project management tool will keep colleague interactions going strong and boost employee engagement.
Cegid Talentsoft’s integration with Microsoft Teams simplifies HR processes like performance reviews, appraisal form validation, and OKR management. Leaders use the interactive knowledge base to answer repetitive questions so employees won’t have to wait for these before starting work in the future.
For managers, practical HR notifications and assisted quick actions free up time for strategic work. They can confirm appraisal forms and schedule performance review meetings without ever leaving Microsoft Teams.