Management Development Programmes

Our modular on-going development programmes are tailored around your business needs and delivered over time.

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The professionalism of your managers has a great impact on how effectively your business works. A skilled manager improves employee performance, satisfaction and motivation.

Designed to give your managers the necessary knowledge, skills and behaviours to lead and manage their people more effectively, our modular on-going training programmes are tailored around your business needs and delivered over time. Every development programme we deliver is unique because they are designed to fit in with your organisational culture, ways of working and what you would like to achieve.

Modular Based Learning Sessions

A development programme is a series of modules and activities that are designed and delivered over a period of time – anything from 3 to 18 months. The modular approach has several advantages:

  • Allows your managers to continue with their regular work
  • Prevents information overload
  • Gives time between modules for managers to digest and apply their new knowledge and skills into the workplace
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Example Modular Programme

Here is a possible example of a modular management development programme spanning 6 months. Every month there is a learning module of between 1 to 3 days. The programme covers a range of essential skills that will help managers to increase their own personal effectiveness and achieve results through other people. The modules use a variety of teaching methods to meet all learning styles including experiential learning games, personality and behavioural profiling, 360 degree feedback, video case studies, skills practice, syndicate group work, videos, and group discussions.

Increasing Personal Effectiveness
  • Time Management
  • The Art of Delegation

January, 2 DAYS

Participants will learn to:
  • Organise themselves by using the key principles of time management
  • Prioritise their work to ensure real achievement and not just activity
  • Achieve more through effective, intelligent and planned delegation
  • Use delegation to free up time and create an empowered and motivate team
Managing with Style
  • Mastering Leadership Styles
  • Effective Influencing Skills

February, 2 DAYS

Participants will learn to:
  • Identify their personal management style and understand the impact it has on others
  • Recognise that a range of styles exist and adopt the most effective style for any given situation
  • Gain agreement, cooperation and commitment from others
  • Communicate in a persuasive manner by using the ‘push’ & ‘pull’ levers of influence
Communication Skills
  • Myers Briggs Personality Profiling
  • Managing Conflict

March, 2 DAYS

Participants will learn to:
  • Understand their own personality preferences and how they interact with others
  • Understand differences between people and use them in a positive way
  • Raise awareness of their preferred conflict management styles and potential blind spots
  • Develop knowledge of which conflict handling strategies to deploy and when to deploy them
Performance Management
  • Managing the performance of others
  • Conducting Effective Appraisals
  • Managing Underperformance

April, 3 DAYS

Participants will learn to:
  • Manage and maximise the performance of others
  • Conduct meaningful and effective performance reviews
  • Correct performance shortfalls
  • Build on performance successes and develop people to their full potential
Coaching Skills for Managers
  • Coaching to improve performance and capability

May, 1 DAY

Participants will learn to:
  • Recognise the value of coaching as part of the managing
  • Develop an understanding of the key principles of coaching
  • Use coaching in the workplace as a means of improving performance and developing people
Running Productive Meetings
  • Chairing meetings effectively

June, 1 DAY

Participants will learn to:
  • Realise why many meetings fail and the implications involved
  • Organise and conduct effective, efficient and productive meetings
  • Adopt a continuous improvement approach to the meetings they chair

Combine this modular approach with learning transfer techniques for a high calibre comprehensive development programme.

Transferring the Learning to the Workplace

Ensuring that the learning is transferred to the workplace is a critical activity and there are a number of ways we can do this including:

  • Work based assignments and projects

    Allows your managers to continue with their regular work

  • Coaching and mentoring support

    Gives managers 1 to 1 individual support

  • Post course debriefing and action planning

    The post-course debriefing is an ideal juncture at which to identify, plan and agree where the skills will be applied and to set specific goals for their application

Our flexible personalisation options help you create a more ‘made to measure’ programme, with a budget-friendly price tag.

Case Study

Providing Calderdale Council with Management Development

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