Making the most of the Management & Leadership National Occupational Standards

What are the management and leadership standards?  

They are benchmarks of best practice   

They coherently bring together the outcomes, behaviours and knowledge required to deliver identified management functions into a tool which can be used by individual managers and their employers. 

How can they be used?

1. Continuing Professional Development  

Managers can use the standards to;

• Describe the skills they need
• Evaluate the skills they already have
• Identify the skills they will need.

2. Business planning  

Employers can use the standards to;

• Evaluate the skills already in the workforce
• Identify skills gaps
• Plan training and recruitment.

3. Workforce management  

Employers can use the standards to;

• Aid selection and recruitment
• Aid employee development.