Through the current project "Leadership for mid level managers" we've created a consortium of 6 partner organizations who want to be able to fill the gaps which we've identified as existing in regards to the leadership skills of mid level managers from small, medium and large organizations. More specifically Integra HR has pointed out the need to identify new educational methods that could be implemented in order to address this issue, a need that is confirmed by various studies conducted by our partner universities and also European statistics. In order to fill the gaps, we've created the following objectives: 1. Exchange best practices in order to improve the common knowledge base of all consortium partners in regards to development programs aimed towards mid level managers from small, medium and large companies our specialist’s time management, development of a career plan path and communications skills. 2. Create a common baseline analysis in regards to the struggles and issues that mid level managers from small, medium and large companies are confronted in companies from various European countries. 3. Identify areas of improvement for the partners’ current leadership training programs, mainly effective communication, feedback, motivation and engagement. Thus, this project should be a first international educational experience for Integra HR, with the support and participation of our partner organizations who have relevant expertise on the project's topic and in implementing European projects. The activities that we will help us reach these objectives will be: 5 transnational meetings during which we'll be discussing specific case studies of mid level managers who need to improve their leadership skills and 3 transnational demonstrative trainings that will reveal various training practices in regards to enhancing leadership skills for mid level managers. At the end of each meeting we'll create a report so that at the end of the project we'll centralize the information. We'll also create an international report containing the results obtained and 5 solutions for mid level managers to improve their leadership skills and abilities. This solutions will be tested in business sector by Integra HR, in the academical sector by UBB and BUT and among young people and public employees by MIM, IRK and Polygonal. At the end of the project, all partner organizations and our representatives will have extended knowledge, from a national to a European level, and will have improved their expertise about leadership training and increased their training capabilities. Plus we will have created an international consortium, that adds value to all the partners' solutions and will be the basis for extending our educational offers through further future collaborations and projects.
Through the current project "Leadership for mid level managers" we've created a consortium of 6 partner organizations, from 4 countries and all the partners were implicated until the end of the project, according to the initial agreements. The project had 3 main objectives being: 1. Exchange best practices in order to improve the common knowledge base of all consortium partners in regards to development programs aimed towards mid-level managers from small, medium and large companies our specialist’s time management, development of a career plan path and communications skills. 2. Create a common baseline analysis in regards to the struggles and issues that mid-level managers from small, medium and large companies are confronted in companies from various European countries. 3. Identify areas of improvement for the partners’ current leadership training programs, mainly effective communication, feedback, motivation and engagement. The project results and activities were concluded in an international analysis report, covering the issues that mid-level managers from small, medium and large companies located in the partner countries are confronted with. It consist of series of case studies run by each partner organisation. Initially we considered to analyse 18 case studies in the consortium and we succeeded to analyse 20 case studies. Through the international report and the case studies, partners were able to exchange best practices. Furthermore, the best practice approach helped the partners to identify skill gaps within mid-level management. Broader HR skills and technical tools has been identified as the main elements to develop. At the five transnational project meeting we had a total number of 71 participants. The partners also conducted a total of 3 training demos on mid-level management, used to increase knowledge and training capabilities of the participants: educators, trainers, experts and middle managers. At trainings we had a total number of 41 participants. The trainings covered topics that should increase mid-level managers’ leadership skills like: communication, teamwork, delivering feedback and employees’ motivation. A few tools were presented and discussed like: feedback methods, job description forms, evaluation systems of the employees (KPIs system), personality tests. At the end of the project, all partner organizations and our representatives have extended knowledge, from a national to a European level, and we improved our expertise about leadership training.