The AMA Guide to Management Development

Daniel R. TOBIN · Margaret PETTINGELL

May 2008 · AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

About this ebook

Based on the set of managerial competencies specially developed by the American Management Association for a new core management curriculum, "The AMA Guide to Management Development" provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how to continually develop managers throughout their entire organization. The book considers every factor important in management development, and features in-depth information on topics including: the five major categories of competencies, including business knowledge and the ability to lead and manage change and innovation; the specific skills needed, including communication skills and people management skills; and, alternative methods organizations may use to develop managers, including different types of training and evaluation of learning effectiveness.Management development is a crucial task for every enterprise. This book gives readers the guidance they need to make sure that both current and future managers have the abilities their organizations need to prosper.

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Tobin and Pettingell present an approach to competency development that begins by starting with the end in mind in defining first what problem you are trying to solve. Then after defining competence, the model development unfolds into three components: knowing and managing yourself, others and the business. Selecting, developing and managing development beyond training are covered in-depth as well as defining the roles of the manager, organizational leadership, Human Resources & training groups. In the appendix (including a reference where the user may download a PDF version) the AMA Management Development Competency Model is described in detail and accompanied by many illustrative behaviors for each competence. Besides being used as a foundation to develop a competency based performance management system, the competencies and illustrative behaviors provide value in performance appraisal & performance correction discussions as well as coaching & counseling sessions.

About the author

Daniel R. Tobin (Stamford, CT) is Vice President of Instructional Design and Development for the American Management Association (AMA) and has more than 30 years' experience as a corporate training director, consultant, writer, and speaker on corporate learning strategies. Margaret S. Pettingell (Hillsborough, NJ) is is an instructional designer with AMA. She previously held positions with Novations Group, Accenture, and Decker Communications.