Management Development Programme

The Management Development Programme offers managers, supervisors and team leaders the opportunity to participate in structured and challenging learning and development activities to continuously update and improve their management and leadership skills. The programme focuses heavily on developing the key management skills of personal effectiveness, recruitment, supervision and appraisal skills, assertiveness and delegation skills along with leadership, motivation and team leading.

 

Overall Objectives of the Programme

The overall aims and objectives of the Management Development Programme are to:

• equip line mangers with relevant knowledge of best practice and a shared understanding in management principles
• develop self awareness
• develop management and leadership skills
• provide support to enable line managers to be more effective
• complement employment law training.

 

Overall Approach to Management Development

People learn most effectively by ‘doing' and are most receptive to personal skills development (or self-development) when they get involved in group-work activities.

The approach to these sessions focuses on working with small groups, delivering training in an encouraging, participative way to maximise the involvement of all participants.

The practical and interactive style of the programme provides participants with the following benefits:

• the opportunity to develop their personal skills in a ‘safe and supportive learning environment' and to learn from shared experiences with others
• the opportunity to learn from participation in group-work and often from analysis/discussion of video extracts, which support the content
• focused personal development experiences, gained through participation in role-play-simulation, which develops personal skills in ways that can be easily applied at the place of work
• enhanced self-awareness, which stimulates their ongoing self-development rather than being prescriptive in approach