Learning and development practitioners and/or management development specialists who have the desire to learn new ideas, leading trends and practices in management development. Senior managers with managers reporting to them who want to gain an insight into the range of management development activities applicable to their learning needs.

Managers and leaders are pivotal to organisational success through their ability to lead, manage and motivate teams and individuals. Today’s successful organisations are those with high performance cultures and high performance working, where transformational leaders shape change and drive business excellence.

But to be successful management development needs to be an integrated strategy, linking both horizontally to the business and vertically to other HR and HRD strategies.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• create management development strategies that are appropriate for your organisation
• identify the key stakeholders in learning and development and how to gain their commitment to management development
• advise on and design management development activities for different learning needs, styles and skills
• use models for monitoring and evaluating management development activity