Business insurance holders should look to invest in skills development for line managers taking an active role in coaching, an organisation asserts.
Dr John McGurk, learning, training and development adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), emphasises that this style of teaching is as useful during the recession as in periods of growth.
He says new guidance is leading to a more effective imbedding of coaching by business insurance holders, with top managers seeing this as an important issue.
"This means senior managers must communicate their commitment to coaching in a consistent way," he asserts.
Dr McGurk claims that business strategy is crucial for learning, development, coaching and mentoring to have roles in the firm's design and support processes.
Last month, the CIPD reported that employers are increasingly emphasising leadership and management training as a response to the economic slowdown.
It said that seven in ten companies rank this as a high priority, with two thirds revealing their training budgets have remained the same or increased this year.
