Advanced Management Programme Accelerator

A deep, psychologically focused analysis of your own management identity and style. You will gain an insight into how you come across to others, and how you can enhance your management impact by enhancing self-awareness, and the ability to self-manage.

• Examine Authentic and Transformational Leadership theory, and evaluate your own management style against these concepts.
• Consider own underpinning motivations, values and belief around self and others, and how these personal factors influence your management style.
• Reflect on alignment of own values and your organisation.
• Use objective data from psychometrics to inform own leadership approach, and to analyse the performance and culture in own department, and the wider business.
• Analyse the role of Emotional Intelligence in effectively managing, motivating and engaging with individuals and teams.
• Apply the principles of Transactional Analysis to effective communication and conflict management to manage own interaction and create an ‘Adult’ performance culture.
• Establish how to apply the Situational Leadership model to self and others to enable continuous development.

A unique session on understanding the value of developing good intelligence to inform strategic decision making. Equip yourself with vital knowledge to ensure you have a competitive advantage in the Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous environment.

• Consider how to develop ‘good strategy’ within a competitive, volatile environment
• Examine a variety of strategic processes that will help you to structure creative and competitive strategy
• Distinguish between information and intelligence; analysed data that will give you a competitive advantage
• Learn methods to gather and present intelligence
• Use intelligence to inform strategic processes and decision making in your own professional context.

During this highly interactive session, participants will learn and practice the skills of the professional executive coach, for application within the management environment. The workshop will introduce a range of tools and underpinning concepts that will help you to get the best from your people.

• Introduce coaching and mentoring, examine the differences, and identify when to engage each skillset.
• Consider own listening skills and enhance ability to listen with intention.
• Examine the positive psychological impact of having clear individual, team and business goals, and set them for yourself.
• Practice several coaching frameworks to support conversations with clear outcomes.
• Identify what is meant by a ‘coaching culture’, and how this can be developed.
• Using effective management techniques to find the mindset of ‘flow’ and unlock both your own and your team’s full potential.

This workshop will introduce the challenge of change, provide an insight into the impact of change on performance, and develop methods to manage change programmes with the minimum possible effect on motivation and capability. The afternoon will introduce the Kata method of leading change and innovation and build upon the coaching and mentoring skills we have established during the previous session.

• Examine the psychological impact of change; understand why it affects performance.
• Apply ‘change readiness’ strategies to build resilience and prepare individuals and teams for change.
• Consider a range of change processes that will facilitate all types of change
• Discuss the role of innovation and creativity within an organisation, and how to harness and operationalise these vital capabilities
• Consider a variety of continuous improvement methodologies, including the rule of incremental gains.
• Explore case studies of successful change management and establish learning for own organisation
• Practice the ‘Kata’ coaching method of leading and supporting others through change.

This workshop will focus on the skills required of senior managers in commercial environments. Regardless of the sector we work in, understanding finance, value and being able to confidently negotiate are critical skills for successful organisational leadership. This engaging, interactive and strategically focussed session will increase the commercial confidence of our participants.

• Explain key financial terms, roles and capabilities within the organisation.
• Examine how organisations effectively budget and forecast.
• Discuss the role of finance in creating, developing and challenging the organisation’s strategy
• Examine your own competitors, and understand their commercial strategy and position
• Consider and apply the principles of negotiation in both competitive and collaborative environments.

At the end of the programme, delegates will walk away with a strategy to implement into their business after we have analysed the market, the business, the audience and other key factors.