Accelerate Your Career Progression: How to Climb the Corporate Ladder
Tony Nutley
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Career progression is something many seek, but making it a reality is a different challenge altogether. Read on to discover some practical tips on how to move up the corporate ladder.
For most ambitious professionals, career progression is a self-fulfilling incentive worth pursuing. But climbing the corporate ladder and creating promotional opportunities may depend on gaining professional qualifications.
Now, with an abundance of career progression courses available, it’s also in the interest of companies to upskill staff or risk losing them to rival competitors.
Learn how to prepare for promotion at each level of junior, middle, and senior management alongside the benefits of upskilling staff as an employer.
Understanding Millennial Workplace Values
Since 2017, millennials have become the largest generation in the UK workforce. As a result, workplace culture has seen a shift in perspective and values.
Professional development, employee engagement, and work/life balance are now firmly set on the agenda. So much so that 86% of millennials would consider taking a pay cut to work at a company whose mission and values align with their own.
And of all the priorities on the list, sitting at the top is career progression with an overwhelming 91%. So, if businesses care to keep their best staff, providing development and progression opportunities is essential.
What are the Benefits of Upskilling Employees?
With ceaseless advances in technology and changes to society ever-evolving, businesses need to develop and adjust accordingly. Enabling employees to progress and develop their skills will enrich the business with qualified individuals to improve overall performance and productivity.
As a result, these benefits will have a positive snowball effect on other areas of your business, including:
Staff Retention
By making staff happier through improved development, they will become more engaged and less likely to leave the company.
Plugged Skill Gaps
Employers can train existing staff to fill skill gaps instead of outsourcing work or employing someone new.
Developing Company Culture
Upskilling staff will develop a culture of leadership and learning throughout your company.
Attracting Talent
Alongside retaining staff, you will also attract new talent through the doors.
The culture of restricting staff’s development opportunities will suffer low retention rates and a lack of motivation.
Provide opportunities as an employer, and your workforce will repay you with increased engagement, productivity, and loyalty.
Career Progression: How to Move Through the Ranks
Junior Management Training Courses
Junior managers have a crucial role as supervisors between entry-level/regular staff and middle/senior managers. Navigating the transition from worker to supervisor requires learning additional leadership and management skills.
Knowing first-hand what it is to be a worker, you can apply this knowledge while training as a supervisor or team leader with awareness, empathy, and strategy for what’s required and how you can improve.
How to Transition From Worker to Supervisor?
Making a smooth transition from team member to team leader relies on learning new leadership and management skills required for the role. The duties and responsibilities you can expect within junior management include:
At UKCPD, we provide award-winning training courses across all levels of management. For junior management training courses, we’d recommend:
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Middle Management Training Courses
Next in line, we have middle-management. The position of the middle manager is below senior managers but is responsible for delegating and managing team leaders and supervisors below. As a middle manager, you’re often called on to develop team performance and productivity from junior staff.
Developing your skills to perform as an effective middle manager will also prepare you for senior management responsibilities. Expectations of middle management include:
How to Move From Middle Management to Senior Management
For practising middle managers making the next step onto senior management, the individual must demonstrate an understanding of the roles and responsibilities required in senior management.
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The key to this transition is shifting your focus from short-term team goals to long-term company performance. Middle management training courses can benefit employees and employers in the following ways:
For Employees
For Employers
UKCPD offers a variety of accredited and approved ILM courses for developing corporate middle management professionals ready for senior management:
For more courses ideal for developing leadership and organisational skills of middle managers, visit the website and browse our selection of training programmes and resources.
Senior Management Training Courses
Typically, senior managers have a higher degree of accountability by sharing responsibility for large or critical employee groups and tasks. Often senior managers will be utilised within a specific department of a business, such as senior managing director, senior marketing manager, senior account manager, etc.
Senior management can sometimes share the responsibilities of other managers. In this regard, they can apply their expertise in middle-management to help operations run smoothly during times of increased pressure.
As a senior manager, your role is to embody the company mission through your example, inspiring your team to work towards the same vision. Roles and responsibilities of senior management include:
But while senior managers are operating at the top of their game, they can still develop and improve in certain areas, just like any other layer of management below them. To understand what skills they require, senior managers must apply self-awareness to their leadership and management ability.
Asking for feedback from your co-workers is one way to hear how you can improve as a senior manager, whether it’s communication skills, organisation, or leadership.
We offer professional ILM qualifications for the very highest levels of management. Our senior management courses include:
Are You Ready to Climb the Corporate Ladder?
Over the past 20 years, we’ve been training elite-level coaches and managers from all sectors, at all levels.
Our wide range of award-winning training courses provides you with the necessary skills and expertise to reach your potential as a leader and manager.
So, if you’re ready to take the next stage in your career, contact us today.
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2yA nice read Tony.