Strategic Planning - Manager Training

The impact for Attracting, Retaining, and Motiving your staff is overwhelmingly determined by your your 1st & 2nd level managers. As a group, they directly oversee the largest number of people.

Your 1st level managers usually do not get training, mentored, or coached. Manager training skills tend to happen 5-15 years AFTER they start their role. A toxic manager can chase away a lot of people.

When you do your strategic planning and evaluate the culture and where the organization should go Also make certain to have discussions about your managers. They will highly impact your workplace culture and are often overlooked.