Smart Buyer: management training

Welcome to our Smart Buyer guide on management training, providing the latest top tips, case studies and expert guidance.

Many employees join the management ranks through longevity – perhaps by outlasting more ambitious workers who have left the organisation to seek challenges elsewhere.

Technical brilliance is no guarantee of management ability, so training managers is paramount. Our Smart Buyer guide takes you through the process…

Management training

Management training overview
Management training boils down to best practice in managing people, functions and processes.

Supplier selection
Ten tips for initial supplier selection.

The course – delegates and content
It’s important you select the right delegates for management training. Pick the wrong people and you will have wasted the company’s money and the delegates’ time – as well as creating resentment.

The cost
We discuss what you should expect to be paying for your training.

A question of evidence: behaviour-based interviews (VIDEO)
Scott Bradbury outlines its behaviour-based interviews content.

Making appraisals work
Appraisals can be a tedious part of the organisation’s bureaucracy or they can be a powerful tool to help the organisation succeed.

TRAINING

• Training overview
• Four step guide to planning your training, learning and development
• Supplier selection
• Payment, ownership and major UK suppliers
• How to get staff buy-in for training
• How to tell if training was effective and well delivered
• Face-to-face or e-learning?
• Getting performance management to work for you (VIDEO)
• Managing people’s performance – fact or fiction?
• Case study: Working Sm@rt at Pepsi QTG

E-LEARNING

• E-learning overview
• Reasons to implement e-learning
• Supplier selection
• Training content
• Mobile training
• Case study: Online training creation for professional bodies
• A new perspective on e-learning: online learning that works

LEADERSHIP TRAINING

• Leadership training overview
• Supplier selection
• Selecting delegates
• Course content

Find out more about the Leadership Training Smart Buyer guide

SALES TRAINING

• Overview
• Types of sales training
• Supplier selection
• The cost
• Ensuring training success

IT TRAINING

• Overview
• Supplier selection
• Potential e-learning issues
• John Lewis case study
• The cost