Designing Leadership Development Programmes

How to design and implement leadership and management development programmes

David Cotton

11th June 2008, London

19th November 2008, London

 

Key benefits

• Understand the differences between leadership and management

• Learn how to identify the key leadership and management challenges facing your organisation

• Understand the pros and cons of 28 different development methods

• Produce the first draft of a leadership/management development programme tailored to your organisation

• Make a compelling business case for leadership development

• Learn practical tips for dealing with external providers, getting your programme accredited and more.

 

Course covers

 

Leadership and management

• What is leadership? How does it differ from management? What does your organisation need?

• Competency based approaches to leadership and management – pros and cons of developing your own model versus using an off the shelf model.

 

Development methods

• 28 development methods explained and compared

• An overview of the research into leadership/management development – what works and what doesn’t

• Designing development programmes

• How to choose the most appropriate development methods to meet the needs of your specific organisation

• Producing the first draft of your organisation’s leadership/

management development plan.

 

Implementation

• Making the business case

• Choosing and working with external providers

• Accreditation issues.

 

 

Agenda

 

9.00           Arrival and registration

 

9.30          Introduction and overview

9.40           Leadership and management
What is leadership? How does it differ from management? What does your organization need?
• Competency based approaches to leadership and management - pros and cons of developing your own model versus using an off the shelf model - useful leadership models
• Why context matters – how to identify the specific leadership/management challenges facing your organisation

11.00        Break

11.15         Development methods
• 28 development methods explained and compared
An overview of the research into leadership/management development – what works and what doesn’t

12.45         Lunch

1.30           Designing development programmes
• How to choose the most appropriate development methods to meet the needs of your specific organization
• Producing the first draft of your organisation’s leadership/management development plan

3.00           Tea

3.15           Implementation
• Making the business case
• Choosing and working with external providers
• Accreditation issues
Your next steps

4.30                             Close

 

 

Tutor

David Cotton is a former consultant with Arthur Andersen and PricewaterhouseCoopers where he led a team of 100 trainers in 26 countries. He now runs his own successful training consultancy. David’s client portfolio reads like a Who’s Who of national and local government departments and multinational corporations in the UK and overseas. He has developed leaders and successful high performing teams all over the world, working repeatedly with clients such as: Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank, Zurich Commercial, British Telecom, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, BBC Worldwide, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and even Eastern Bloc Military personnel.