San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 21, 2023 — SHRM, an skilled, convener, and thought chief on points impacting at present’s evolving workplaces, and SweetRush, a number one supplier of customized studying options, collaborated to create an interactive, gamified, and extremely partaking digital management improvement program: the SHRM Individuals Supervisor Qualification (PMQ).
As “the voice of all things work,” SHRM’s consultants know that folks managers have the best potential to impression a corporation’s tradition and well-being. As SHRM President and CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., explains, “There is no relationship in the workplace more powerful than the one between people managers and employees.” With their outsized affect on crew members’ engagement, satisfaction, and psychological security, managers should develop nuanced expertise equivalent to communication, empathy, efficiency administration, and situational judgment. But managers usually step into management roles with out steering or coaching, which has a deleterious impact on their groups: SHRM’s 2022 World Tradition Report reveals that one in three employees worldwide state that their managers cannot lead a crew.
PMQ is the SHRM-SweetRush crew’s ingenious response to the pressing want going through SHRM’s prolonged enterprise of 325,000 members in 165 nations. To serve the 27 efficiency goals and 110 behavioral indicators defining profitable administration, the crew crafted a scenario-based digital studying answer within the type of a sequence of animated episodes, organized into “seasons,” similar to learners’ favourite streaming exhibits.
The binge-worthy PMQ sequence follows six various characters, all new individuals managers, who signify a variety of ethnicities, gender identities, our bodies, skills, and personalities. Alongside the best way, they share experiences and help and illustrate examples—and non-examples—of administration expertise, behaviors, and emotional intelligence. Branching assessments put the learner on the middle of the motion in a “season finale” that forces them to suppose on their ft to unravel genuine administration challenges.
Mary Harding, SweetRush Account Supervisor, shares, “SHRM is, and has always been, a team that likes to dream big for their audience, and PMQ is no exception. This leading-edge program features excellent content delivered in a relevant and engaging way. SHRM and SweetRush work side by side to provide new and experienced people managers with a learning experience that taps into real-life situations.”
PMQ’s revolutionary method to individuals administration coaching has been acknowledged with quite a few artistic and L&D business awards. Since 2020, PMQ has earned 14 Brandon Corridor Group HCM Excellence Awards, together with 12 Gold Awards, in addition to a Horizon Interactive Gold Award.
Ninety-six % of learners fee PMQ an awesome device for brand new individuals managers, characterizing it as “binge-worthy,” “actionable,” and “confidence-building.” One learner enthusiastically provides, “The content was real! It was almost as if someone was watching my life and creating content from it. The information learnt is timely, useful and applicable.”
Because the world of labor continues to evolve, the SHRM-SweetRush crew seems to be ahead to serving individuals managers and their groups with recent, related options that assist them thrive collectively.
About SHRM
SHRM creates higher workplaces the place employers and staff thrive collectively. Because the voice of all issues work, employees and the office, SHRM is the foremost skilled, convener, and thought chief on points impacting at present’s evolving workplaces. With almost 325,000 members in 165 nations, SHRM impacts the lives of greater than 235 million employees and households globally. Be taught extra at SHRM.org.
About SweetRush
SweetRush’s deal with crew tradition and craft is mirrored in loyal purchasers, uniquely low turnover of teammates, a observe document of success spanning over 20 years, and a exceptional portfolio. Their work with purchasers creating customized options for expertise empowerment and folks success has earned them Gold awards from our friends and excessive rankings on prime business lists.
SweetRush are over 200 individuals robust and have been in enterprise since 2001. Their service areas embrace customized studying (together with eLearning, cellular, gamification, and digital coaching), expertise options (momentary expertise to reinforce purchasers’ L&D groups), XR and immersive tech (VR, AR, AI, and rising applied sciences), reworking leaders and tradition (skilled teaching and consulting to create linked, unified cultures, leaders, and groups), and “Good Things” (amplifying the impression of nonprofits and the social impression house). Be taught extra and get in contact with SweetRush.