Right to Request Time to Train activities for Line Managers and Supervisors

As a line manager or supervisor you are likely to be concerned with your individual team members’ performance and development and how this links to the wider business context.

This relatively new right is an opportunity to:

• introduce and explain the right to your team and how it fits with existing training policies.

• talk to your team about the training they may need and how this can support their specific roles, their future development and the needs of the business.

• Talk to other line managers and supervisors about how they approach training needs in their own teams and share good practice.

Suggested activities:

Activity: Organise a session with your team to explain the right and how it fits with existing training policies. Take team members through the application process and simulate a request.

Available resources:

Downloadable exercise simulating the application stage

Activity: Talk to individual team members about their training needs and the opportunities that are available

Downloadable Leading on Learning booklet for managers

Activity: Organise a session with other line managers and supervisors and invite Human Resources and Learning and Development managers to discuss the right and the best way to approach training needs 

Downloadable Leading on Learning booklet for managers