Course description
For over 30 years, Nottingham Business School has helped individuals learn new knowledge and practical skills to enhance their careers and make a powerful contribution to their organisations.
Our Management Development Programme is a new course designed to empower you to deliver results, lead your teams and energise change.
This programme will help you:
- understand the consequences of your actions
- generate new and innovative ways to grow your business
- develop your commercial acumen, project management and team leadership skills
- discover contemporary models of leadership and management, including coaching
- identify your strengths and build a tailored personal development plan
- meet and learn from your peers from different organisations
- increase your self-awareness
- apply a step-by-step approach to managing people, tasks and resources
- appreciate how strategic and functional concerns affect day-to-day operations
- identify and respond to present and future challenges in your organisation
- understand how marketing, finance and staffing affect your business
- become more resilient in managing workload and personal pressures.
Audience
It is for managers and team leaders or those about to become managers. It is also a useful refresher course for established managers. The course is particularly aimed at those working in the public sector.
Delivery
We know the demands managers face, which is why we have kept the time you spend at Nottingham Business School to a minimum: three intensive workshop blocks delivered over two days, plus one final networking event. There are no exams or formal assessments.
Content
Workshops cover a range of topics:
Workshop 1
Day 1: The Competitive Environment
- Leadership and Management Overview
- Gaining Employee Engagement
- Leading and Building Teams
Day 2:
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Managing Performance
Workshop 2
- Business Simulation
Day 4:
- Organisational Power and Politics
- Building Personal Resilience
Workshop 3
Day 5:
- Career Planning
- Skills Development - choose between promotion interview or coaching meeting
Day 6:
- Creativity and Innovation
- Future Focus
Day 7:
- Follow-up network event
- Certificate of Achievement presentations
Special features:
- Assess your strengths through psychometric testing.
- Take part in a tailored business simulation.
- Create a bespoke personal development plan.
- Develop skills in either a mock interview or coaching meeting.
- Work with business actors simulating realistic scenarios.
- Gain insights from guest speakers.
- Take advantage of one-to-one leadership coaching (extra cost applies).
Funding opportunities
Grants of up to £1,000 are available through the Leadership and Management Advisory Service.
Entry requirements: Managing or about to manage a team
Course length: Seven days delivered over six months
Location: City site
Fee: £1,950 (funding available)
Find out more
To find out more or apply for the course, please contact:
Vanessa Harrison
Tel: +44 (0)115 848 8110
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