2thrive helps managers to build their confidence in their role and to develop the skills, knowledge and capabilities needed to manage through complexity, ambiguity and change.

Organisations need visionary leaders and effective managers. The phrase ‘people leave managers, not organisations’ still holds true. Effective managers are fundamental to your talent development and retention strategy. They are also fundamental to having a pipeline of future leaders.

Many people find themselves ‘accidental managers’. They hit the ceiling of their expert/specialist role and, in order to progress, find they need to move into a managerial role. They often don’t get the support they need in order to be effective. Management needs a broader set of skills and capabilities, the development of which can often get dismissed in favour of technical skills. Most challenges in organisations however, are all about people.

2thrive management development reflects the increasing demands on managers to engage and inspire diverse teams, to be able to translate vision and strategy into tangible action and to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in ‘business as usual’ whilst also ensuring innovation and change happens.

Examples of development areas include:

Personal effectiveness

• Making time to manage
• Emotional intelligence
• Personal resilience
• Building confidence

Strategy and change

• Understanding the bigger picture
• Managing change
• Translating strategy to action
• Creating a change agile culture

Management capability

• Manager as coach
• Managing diverse teams
• Inclusive leadership
• Managing performance in ways that engage and inspire
• Coaching for performance and engagement

Interpersonal skills

• Building good relationships
• Having good conversations
• Influencing and negotiating
• Stakeholder management
• Facilitating positive outcomes from conflict

Delivery is flexible. It could include bite sized learning, half-day workshops or one-day and two-day emersions. It could take a modular approach spread over a number of months and include coaching and the use of psychometrics. It could be virtual delivery, face to face or a blended approach.