Thriving in the Middle: Why Managers Need to be Coaching Each Other

How does your company train its operational-level managers? Do they go offsite learn new information from a management expert receive a training manual or something similar? Most businesses fall into this development category treating managers as our academic system treats students. The results unfortunately consist of short-lived bursts of enthusiasm and little measurable improvement in part due to the lack of day-to-day applicability and personal accountability.Thriving in the Middle looks to replace this ineffective version of management development with a more culturally founded experience-dependent model. Based on decades of leadership experience and breakthrough studies Mike Cook establishes the case for Distributed Development Communities in which application takes place in a near-real-time experiential environment using actual situations faced. In this model process-driven development is more frequent and delivered in small doses and operational-level managers are coached and groomed to become great operational-level managers without the subtext of upward advancement. Learn the attributes and processes of better management improvement. Your bottom line and your front line will thank you for it.