Manchester Leadership Development Programme

The Leadership in Practice module will be delivered by either:

• Dr Courtney Owens, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Leadership and Organisational Psychology at AMBS
• Elinor O'Connor, Professor of Occupational Psychology at AMBS.

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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Delivered by 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. Areas covered include:

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

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Delivered by Irene Roele, Strategy Lead within Executive Education at AMBS.

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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Delivered by Claire-Marie Boggiano, Lecturer in Project Management, Change Management and Leadership. 

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 will 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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Delivered by 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 unique business dashboard 

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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 word project assessment for a Level 7 Award from CMI (Chartered Management Institute)
• Explore a real-life challenge or opportunity within your workplace
• Use your knowledge to develop a plan to deliver value

View the CMI award overview for more detail >>

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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You’ll learn through a blend of workshops, group learning, reflective discussion, e-learning platform, one-to-one coaching, and guided webinar support.

There will be an assigned assessment (2,500 words) as part of this programme.

The programme is designed to help you understand how to get the best out of your business, giving you the capability to master the challenges and opportunities you face as a manager and a leader. 

• Develop increased self-awareness as a leader 
• Understand your team and how to get the best from them 
• Build your confidence to ask difficult questions and make informed decisions 
• Gain a practical understanding of financial management 
• Construct a framework for thinking more strategically 
• Learn a proven process for promoting innovation 
• Hone your project management skills with a toolkit for delivering major projects 
• Design a work-based project to apply your learning and deliver business impact 

• More effective leaders
• Applied practical skills
• Change/repositioning
• Growth and productivity
• Retaining talent
• Business project

The course attracts leaders, managers, directors, department heads, CFOs, and CEOs from a wide range of disciplines including sales, marketing, quality, engineering, health and safety, operations, logistics, customer service, legal and IT.

Professionals from diverse sectors and backgrounds work together around common themes, benefitting from the opportunity to network, generate ideas and share best practice.

There is no formal entry requirements for this programme, but you should have some experience in a leadership or management role.

Past delegates include: 

• Bryan Owens, Global Project Director, ProofID: Read Bryan's experience >>
• Olawale Odukoya, Finance Manager, PHD Nigeria Ltd: Read Olawale's experience >>
• Lianne Davis, Assistant Director in Public Health, Rochdale Borough Council: Read Lianne's experience >>
• Richard Gaston, Head of Knowledge, Addleshaw Goddard: Read Richard's experience >>
• Einir Hinson, Social Services Team Manager: Read Einir's experience >>
• Nick Stocking, Head of Account Management and Support, Golf Genius Software: Read Nick's experience >>
• Alex Lane, Independent Financial Advisor, DKFM: Read Alex's experience >>

Dr Ian Crowther is a Lecturer in Management at Alliance Manchester Business School.

Ian has held senior management posts in several leading UK banking institutions over a 16 year period, and has both led and developed management teams and senior executives during this time.

You can choose to apply for other courses at AMBS after you complete the Manchester Leadership Development Programme – for example, other short business courses or our Global MBA.

If you apply and are accepted onto the Global MBA, the Manchester Leadership Development Programme can count as one of your electives. This means you can choose to do two electives instead of three during your MBA. To be eligible, you'll need to:

• Apply for the Global MBA within five years of completing this programme
• Mention your attendance on this course in your application.

For further details, please do contact us.

If you choose to stay in Manchester during your time on one of our short business courses, you can benefit from preferential rates at the Hyatt Hotel, a modern and elegant hotel located at the heart of our campus and adjoining the Executive Education centre.

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Every delegate that completes the pre-work and attends the core modules will receive a certificate of completion from The University of Manchester. In addition, those who choose the CMI project option, provided they submit and pass their work-based project, will receive a Level 7 Award in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice from the CMI (Chartered Management Institute).

All delegates will be supported by the programme director, who oversees the programme in its entirety and provides academic support throughout. The programme administration team are also on hand to answer any questions and provide support with practical considerations, as well as the eLearning team who are able to provide technical support for our online learning platform. 

Please contact us if you have any additional needs and we will discuss further support.

Accommodation is not included in the course fees; however, we can provide a list of local hotels within easy reach of the campus. Alternatively, there is a preferred rate at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, located on campus, which is available to delegates who have booked onto this programme. Find out more about the preferred rate. 

Core modules only (£3,990)
This option includes an online induction, all tuition, all materials, three Hogan Psychometric reports (HMVP, HPI and HDS), lunch and refreshments during the taught modules, and access to our eLearning resource platform for 6 months. 

Core modules + CMI Award Project (£4,490)
This option also includes three action learning sets / online support for your project, 12 months membership with the CMI, access to the CMI website and resources for 12 months. 

Core modules + leadership coaching element (£4,740)
This option also includes an induction to coaching and 3 x 1-hour one-to-one leadership coaching sessions with a qualified and Hogan-accredited coach. 

Full programme, including CMI Award and coaching element (£4,990)
This option includes all of the above.

After you complete the Manchester Leadership Development Programme, you can apply for our Global MBA.

If you apply and are accepted onto the Global MBA, the Manchester Leadership Development Programme can count as one of your electives. This means you can choose to do two electives instead of three during your MBA. To be eligible, you'll need to:

• Apply for the Global MBA within five years of completing this programme
• Mention your attendance on this course in your application.

For further details, please do contact us.