People Managers hold the key to unlocking performance potential in your business. They’re the ones that engage, empower and excite your people to join, perform and stay. Management REALLY does matter.

TakeON! Management Matters

New Zealand has one of the lowest productivity profiles within the OECD. We’re working long hours and not seeing the growth and rewards of other countries. Key to this is our relatively poor performance as people managers. Getting your managers to ‘step up’ and take ownership of creating a culture that facilitates, rather than hinders, the achievement of your objectives is mission critical to sustained business performance and talent retention. At Blacksmith, we work with people managers and management teams to identify and explore the core competencies, behaviours and skills required to lead and manage teams for success.

What We Do

TakeON! Management Matters™

TakeON! Management Matters™ is focused on specific skills and competency development for first and second line leaders and managers. TakeON! Management Matters™ provides a structured yet flexible framework of conversations, tools and resources to engage, empower and excite your people managers. With this program, your people managers’ confidence and capability to lead and manage effectively will significantly improve.

Expected outcomes:

• Increased manager confidence and competence
• Increased connection and mutual support amongst managers
• Align people with your brand, promise, operating principles and strategic objectives
• Unlock the performance potential within your managers and their people

TakeON! Management Matters encourages your people managers to ‘step up’ and become better leaders.

Management Matters is for any organisation wanting to strengthen its people leadership. This proven approach delivers rapid, positive change in key people management competencies, giving your people managers greater confidence and capability to lead.

Management Matters is based on ON-Brand Partners’ experience in developing leadership skills in large and complex organisations.

TakeON! Management Matters works because:

• It focuses on sustainable change and skill-building in your managers
• It acknowledges they are time-poor and have competing priorities
• It is based on creating meaningful dialogue, rather than just information download – an approach proven to be more effective in driving change

Engage, Empower, Excite your leaders

Management Matters offers a structured yet flexible activity framework to engage, empower and excite your people managers. It focuses on specific skill development for first and second line managers turning traditional organisational development on its head.

Using a conversation based approach, a series of bite-sized learning themes (3-4 hr monthly sessions) lets them explore key management concepts. Simple tools and methods are provided, so that managers can start applying these immediately in their work. 

Visit the TakeON! global website to learn more and contact Paul Leacock on paul.leacock@blacksmith.co.nz or +64 9 974 3917 to find out what difference Management Matters could make to your people and business.