Leadership & Manager Development
Building strong leaders to boost team performance, retention, and long-term business growth.
The Importance of Developing Leadership
Great managers and leaders are the backbone of organizational performance. Investing in leadership development improves decision-making, reduces turnover costs, and drives innovation. Companies that develop strong leaders see higher profitability and outperform competitors in the marketplace.
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Key Data Trends
92%
HR executives say people managers are critical to organizational success.
25%
HR executives make the development of people managers a high priority.
54%
HR executives cite coaching and mentoring as key skills to develop.
25%
HR professionals say their orgs are highly effective at leadership development.
Latest News
Oprah Winfrey encouraged HR professionals at SHRM26 not to lose focus on the most important parts of the job: people and the culture that helps them thrive.
When fear becomes the default leadership style, it weakens trust, limits honest feedback, and impacts long-term organizational success.
New managers face 360-degree pressure, peer resentment, and imposter syndrome. Learn how HR leaders can support first-time managers with the right tools.
SHRM board members Betty Thompson and Sean N. Woodroffe discussed the challenges ahead for HR, including AI and inclusion and diversity, as they kicked off SHRM26.
Week one plays a critical role in how new hires perceive your organization. This culture first onboarding guide shares practical ways to create a first-week experience that builds connection, confidence, and belonging, starting day one.
People Manager Qualification (PMQ)
Strengthen leadership skills, improve team performance, and accelerate your career with SHRM’s PMQ.
Member Resources
BUILD is the five-letter values acronym Derrick Hall and SVP of People & Culture Joe Walsh co-designed to keep all 2,000 Arizona Diamondbacks employees aligned across full-time, part-time, and global scouting functions. The system replaced an older pocket-card values program that nobody used.
This is a 90-minute workshop for identifying or refreshing your company's core values by starting with the people who already live them, based on the exercise Founder and former CEO, Aaron Skonnard, used at Pluralsight.
Gain a comprehensive, evidence-based foundation to design, implement, and optimize agile leadership development strategies.
Review the most popular executive coaching models to strengthen your strategy for leadership and management development and organizational impact.