People Development

People Development - part of the Managing Teams domain




People Development is about leaders:

  • Enabling, encouraging & facilitating the development of individuals and teams to support effective service delivery
  • Enabling achievement of career aspirations and potential


E-learning 

Below are some useful e-learning modules around this topic:

Coaching Skills E-learning - This module will help you, as a manager, identify and understand some of the principles and processes of successful coaching, and recognise how these can support your team and organisation. (NB you will need to register for a free account)

Exploring Career Mentoring & Coaching - Working through this course will help you to: identify how a mentor or coach can support career development; understand the skills and characteristics of an effective mentor or coach; and find out how to become a mentor or coach when you feel ready to take on that role – whether now, or at some stage in your future career.

Managing People E-learning - Skilled managers are good at inspiring, coaching, empowering, developing and motivating people. 

Effective Feedback E-learning - This e-learning module is aimed at anyone who would like to be able to deliver feedback to other people in an effective way.  It may be particularly useful for managers of individuals and teams who play a key role in developing others.  (NB you will need to register for a free account)

Developing Career Resilience - Do you sometimes wish you were more resilient when faced with changes at work? Do you have career plans but feel unsure about progressing with them? If you do, then this course, Developing career resilience, will help you to build your resilience and approach career-related change with greater confidence and motivation.

Three Principles of a Coaching Approach - This course provides a good sense for three of the core skills required of an effective coach. Whether or not you recognise the use of a 'coaching approach' in your workplace, you will be able to use the learning in the course to enhance your day-to-day interactions in your workplace.


Workshops

Below are details of useful workshops around this topic:

Brilliant Conversations Workshop (part of the ICS Leader & Manager Essentials series) - explore how taking a coaching approach as a leader can enhance your conversations

Building Psychological Safety (part of the ICS Leader & Manager Essentials series) - explore how to create an environment as a leader where colleagues feel safe to engage and be themselves

Enabling High Performance (part of the ICS Leader & Manager Essentials series) - explore how to maximise and manage performance as a leader

Mary Seacole Local Leadership Development Programme - This in-depth six-month programme will provide you with a range of opportunities to explore and understand yourself & your effectiveness as a leader

Career Conversations Training for Line Managers (part of the ICS Leader & Manager Essentials series) - Explore and discover what career conversations are, why they are important and how to hold an effective and meaningful career conversation.


Useful Resources

Resources which may be useful for you around this topic include:

How to have a Career Conversation - A Guide for Herefordshire & Worcestershire ICS

6 Principles of Effective Coaching for Leaders - Are you comfortable coaching others? Learn 6 essential principles of leadership coaching, applicable for leaders within an organisation.

Leader as Coach - Article from the Harvard Business Review on how leaders can using coaching to unleash innovation, energy, and commitment in our teams


Webinars & TED Talks

Effective supervision - developing supervision skills to support your staff - Explore practical approaches to developing new supervision skills and how this benefits the staff you support. The webinar will signpost you to resources and tools from Skills for Care to support supervisors and answer some of the most common questions that employers have. It also includes contributions from specialist learning providers and employers sharing best practice approaches. 

Build a Tower Build a Team - Tom Wujec

Leading Effective Teams - Hear from Affina Organisation Development (AOD) who explore how they apply the inspirational research of Professor Michael West to shape day-to-day practice in leading effective teams in many settings. You will gather advice, tips and practical ways to lead effectively and collaboratively with your teams which you can apply back in the workplace.

Last modified: Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 4:41 PM