Right Management, Great Lakes, (with a powerful 4-decade history) has an overriding mission to operate as an essential partner to the many corporations who engage us. Currently, we are hearing from clients that they are struggling with retaining the excellent people in whom they have invested, and having issues recruiting new, talented colleagues. Much of our research, and many external workforce studies, prove that there is a 3-pronged approach to successfully overcome these concerns:
- Emphasize more than just salary and benefits. Among other incentives to stay, let your people know you are willing to invest in their professional growth (a proven loyalty-builder).
- Provide new skills, not necessarily a part of an employee’s current talent portfolio, to those already onboard the company, to increase performance level(s) and individual self-confidence.
- Utilize those newly trained people as leaders of their teams. No one can ever understand the challenges of a team as deeply as those who have been on the team. And empathic leaders inspire more, motivate more, understand more, and develop colleagues/teams to their full potential, faster.
The skills transferred by our PowerLead instructors include all key proficiencies for developing leaders. Curriculum is based on client feedback and Right Management’s lengthy experience. Robust modules focus on:
- Clear, appropriate, and consistent communications, to meet all challenges on the job
- Strategies to build one-to-one and overall team trust
- Team engagement methods for every situation
- Conflict management, day-to-day
- Dynamic change management to meet the challenges of ongoing business evolution
These “softer” skills are proven over Right Management’s long history to be equally (if not more) important to the development and operation of well-oiled teams, at all levels.
In addition, we deliver these skills in a practical, powerful way — a combination of classroom instruction, bolstered by interactive, online modules, and easily mastered “homework” assignments to test what is being learned, and to immediately use on the job. We have created the program based on strong feedback from diverse teams. Clients tell us they see immediate and long-term transformation. PowerLead works.
While a variety of factors influence talent attraction, development, and retention, there’s no debate that culture, values, mission, and (therefore) employee loyalty, starts and ends with relationships with front-line leaders. PowerLead graduates repeatedly deliver lower hiring costs (fewer open requisitions, faster time to fill gaps), improved team loyalty, and accelerated productivity for our partners. It isn’t rocket science. Better leaders = better people = better results.
Right Management is not a “ONE SIZE/FITS ALL” workforce development partner. We are committed to working with clients to find the best delivery model that we can for their unique needs. Client needs vary, over time and seasons. While a full day with two-hour modules might work for one client, a two-hour session on a weekly basis might work for another. As much as possible, we will “flex” PowerLead as necessary to fit a client’s schedules to achieve effective leadership evolution, without sacrificing quality and productivity.
PowerLead content is universally meaningful for first-line leaders regardless of location. But if one plant has different scheduling needs, in terms of length of session time or frequency, Right Management will accommodate their needs.
Contracting with Right Management to instruct your first-line supervisors in leadership is a better investment than stretching the valuable resources of your in-house learning and development teams, and asking them to tackle this, too.
Right Management has deep, proven, decades-long experience in evolving people into what they can become. Leadership, and all its complex components, are in our DNA. Your learning and development group resources are better invested in other industry-specific, technical, and complex training programs unique to your company. We can do the “heavy lifting” when it comes to molding your potential leaders into effective leaders. It will save you time, resources, and PowerLead is a tested approach to transformation that works.
Contracting with Right Management to instruct your first-line supervisors in leadership is a better investment than stretching the valuable resources of your in-house learning and development teams, and asking them to tackle this, too.
Right Management has deep, proven, decades-long experience in evolving people into what they can become. Leadership, and all its complex components, are in our DNA. Your learning and development group resources are better invested in other industry-specific, technical, and complex training programs unique to your company. We can do the “heavy lifting” when it comes to molding your potential leaders into effective leaders. It will save you time, resources, and PowerLead is a tested approach to transformation that works.
Right Management gets this question frequently. Plainly put, it is the wrong question. The right question is: can you afford not to build leaders in your business capable of inspiring loyalty, producing results, and managing constant change? As automation and technologies disrupt much of the industry, it is a mistake to assume the role of people leaders is getting less important. It is simply changing. Are you and your company building change-agile leaders who motivate dynamic teams? If you aren’t, chances are your competitors are.
Right Management takes our clients’ businesses seriously. We are committed to ensuring that individuals who work with our clients deeply understand their world and industry, it’s issues and challenges. Our facilitators and instructors have worked in manufacturing settings. They’ve held crucial roles in designing successful learning for manufacturing leaders, and they love people themselves! We work directly with frontline manufacturing leaders to develop and test solutions. Delivery is on-site, expert led, and filled with engaging activities.
Typically, plants who deploy PowerLead will offer more than one session based on the number of leaders who need the training. This provides inbuilt flexibility if someone misses a session. In situations where that’s not feasible, organizations can partner leaders with each other. They then support each other. Additionally Human Resources gets involved and supplies additional support.
To get the most out of the training though, we highly recommend people attend all the training sessions they can.
Each PowerLead attendee receives a hard copy workbook that they can make their own. The workbook includes visuals, definitions, activity notes, action plans, and reflection areas. Students are also provided with job aids that they can have with them while they’re on the floor, and use for consistent reminders.
Diverse factors influence the level of engagement during sessions. Ultimately, encouragement and recognition from plant leadership to the participants solidifies how engaged attendees are and the degree to which they apply their learning.
There are a variety of ways we reinforce the training, and we identify the best methods that will work with each client. Based on client needs, we select from the available reinforcement options for learning application on the job. These range from application discussion sessions following training, to coaching leaders on how to best support the participants and what they’ve learned.
