management development

• Executive Education

  Informative and interactive sessions designed to bring managers up to date on contemporary issues and debates relating to key managerial roles and tasks. Sample sessions:

  • Human resource strategy (for general managers)

    • The role and purpose of HR
    • External and internal factors driving HR strategy choices
    • Today’s decisions and future impacts

  • Strategy

    • Strategic planning theories & approaches
    • Process & outputs
    • Implementation challenges

  • Managing & Measuring Performance

    • Strategic performance
    • Organisational, team and individual performance
    • Measuring vs. managing

• Executive Training

  Customised programmes tailored to the organisation’s needs designed to increase management and organisational capability by guiding teams to apply theoretical models to organisational challenges so that they learn and implement together. Sample Programmes:

  • Managing Performance

    • Why the conversation is more important than the template
    • How to ensure your messages are heard
    • Following up and positive reinforcement
    • Planning to improve the performance of your team

  • Coaching

    • Making conversations matter
    • Clarity of intent drives content and approach
    • Language and body language as key tools
    • Practice practice practice

  • Leadership with a small ‘l’

    • Everyday leadership – why the small things matter
    • Making decisions – why equality is rarely just or fair
    • Managing the mood and being prepared for fallout

  • Leadership with a capital ‘L’

    • Making the vision, mission and strategy REAL
    • Clarity and consistency – decisions & actions related to values
    • Communicating through symbolism and actions
    • Leadership costs – managing the pain of acting on principles and value

• Coaching

  • Strategy implementation: coaching managers as they communicate, engage, devise, and implement strategic goals with their teams
  • Operational effectiveness: working with managers as they evaluate performance. Devising performance improvement plans to improve operational effectiveness
  • Executive coaching: one to one coaching focused on planning personal, team and organisational development
  • Personal development: one to one coaching focused on skills, behaviours, motivations
  • Career planning: long term career & succession planning