The Manchester Leadership Development Programme

Dr Courtney Owens
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Leadership and Organisational Psychology

This module is an interactive session which focuses on you as a leader. Using Hogan Psychometric Assessment, you will discover your strengths, your blind spots, how your leadership changes under pressure and how you can improve. Areas covered include:

• Before you lead others, know and lead yourself
• How your personality influences your leadership
• Leading at your best vs. leading under pressure

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Dr Paul Evans
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Leadership Development

Leading Teams and Talent focuses on practical application. During the session you will learn the principles for building and leading a high performing team and understand talent development and the impact on team dynamics. Area covered include:

• Motivation and influence
• Effective vs dysfunctional teams
• Developing diverse talent

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Nigel Moody
Financial and Development Consultant

This module is led by an expert in commercial finance, who will give you the knowledge and tools to join in the financial conversation and make a valuable contribution, even when finance is not your background. You will be taken step-by-step through the key financial documents every leader must understand, interpret and be able to question. Areas covered include:

• Commercial business management
• See company financial accounts in 3D
• Develop your own uniquely business dashboard

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Dr Mike Kennard
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Strategy and Innovation

This one day interactive session encourages you to think more strategically about choice, whilst giving you the tools and process for promoting innovation in everyday work. Challenging the assumptions that the two are separate areas, it brings strategy and innovation to life through leadership, because successful leaders know that they cannot do one without the other. Areas covered include:

• Strategic tools, strategic choice and creating great strategy
• Strategy, opportunity and risk
• Driving innovation as a process

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Dr Alec Waterworth
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Project Management

The project management module takes real world examples of projects and applies the common sense, tools and theories you need to achieve results. Throughout the session you progress step-by-step through each stage of a project, learning valuable best practices and avoiding common pitfalls. Areas covered include:

• Lifecycle, processes, tools and techniques
• Success and failure: evaluation and decision making
• Planning, execution and closing

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Dr Dane Anderton 
Programme Director

This module takes your learning from the programme and applies it to your working world. You will develop a work-based project, focusing on a real-life challenge or opportunity for your organisation. By applying your learning from different leadership modules through reflective practice, you will critically assess the effectiveness of your leadership. During the module you will:

• Undertake a series of online webinars
• Be supported by academic experts
• Create a 2,500 project assessment for a Level 7 Award from the Institute of Leadership and Management.
• A real challenge or opportunity from your workplace
• Use your knowledge to develop a plan to deliver value

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As part of the course, you undertake one-to-one professional coaching sessions with a qualified leadership coach. Using insight from your Hogan Leadership Psychometric assessment, you will work on the areas most important to your personal development as a leader. The coaching will help you to:

• Become more self-aware as a leader
• Have a deeper understanding of any obstacles you must overcome
• Build your ability to lead with greater confidence.

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The online option has been carefully designed to give an interactive and immersive virtual classroom experience. The focus is on live workshops, balanced with self-directed learning and time to reflect.

You'll engage with a mix of tools to bring the learning to life. Examples include:

• Talking heads – interviews and viewpoints
• Padlet blog from group reflection (before, during and after the course)
• Group activity – enquiry-based learning

Please note this is the February 2021 intake only.

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