How To Help People Managers Lead Culture Change
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Written by Louise Taylor
In a previous article regarding the importance of people managers,?we looked at why people managers are so critical to culture change. Yet according to a recent survey from research firm Gartner, 68 per cent of people managers globally are overwhelmed. With the seemingly endless pressures on their time and energy, how can you make it quicker and easier for them to engage in, and drive, culture change??
Make learning light touch
Understand and respect that your people managers are always short on time. Ensure that any learning and development interventions on culture balance having enough information to make a real impact, while being able to be incorporated into a managers’ day-to-day work. You can do this by offering self-directed learning, so people can do it at their own pace, and breaking down courses or content so they are bitesize and therefore more easily digestible, and potentially even fun. This makes it more likely that your managers will consume the content, and do what you want them to as a result.