The University of Manchester - Dubai
Manchester Leadership Development Programme
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Course
DURATION
5 days
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Manchester Leadership Development Programme at The University of Manchester Middle East Centre is a short, flexible, accredited programme (ILM). It covers leadership, team leadership, finance, strategy, innovation and project management, combines workshops with one-to-one coaching and a work-based project, and can be delivered online to closed cohorts. The programme builds self-awareness, strategic thinking, decision-making, financial understanding, innovation capability and project delivery skills for managers and emerging leaders.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can move into senior management, team leadership, project or programme management, operations, strategy or HR roles. The programme supports promotion, applied leadership practice and talent retention. Career opportunities include internal promotion, management consultancy, operations leadership and strategy roles across sectors needing strategic planning, financial oversight and innovation skills.
A practical, accelerated leadership development program for leaders and managers moving forward in their careers. Develop your critical thinking and strengthen the capability to master challenges and opportunities as a leader.
The Manchester Leadership Development Programme is a short, flexible, accredited, open leadership development course. It inspires and guides you to think creatively, organize differently, and develop a mindset that is critical for development.
The program explores the core modules for business success – leadership, leading teams, finance, strategy, innovation, and project management. Accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM), it combines skills development with one-to-one leadership coaching.
We can also deliver the program online to a closed cohort of your employees.
How to Benefit
The program 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 an informed decision
- 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
How your organization benefits
- More effective leaders
- Applied practical
- 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 practices.
There is no formal entry requirement for this program, but you should have some experience in a leadership or management role.
Leadership in Practice
Delivered by Dr Courtney Owens, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Leadership and Organisational Psychology
This module is an interactive session that focuses on you as a leader. Using the 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
Leading Teams and Talent
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 its impact on team dynamics. Areas covered include:
- Motivation and influence
- Effective vs dysfunctional teams
- Developing diverse talent
Strategy and Innovation
Delivered by 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, 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
Project Management
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
Finance for Management
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
ILM Level 7 Award in Leadership and Management
Ian Crowther, Programme Director
This module takes your learning from the program and applies it to your working world. You will develop a work-based project, focusing on a real-life challenge or opportunity for your organization. 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 the Institute of Leadership and Management.
- Explore a real-life challenge or opportunity within your workplace
- Use your knowledge to develop a plan to deliver value
Leadership Coaching
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.
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 program.
Certificate
A certificate of attendance will be awarded from Alliance Manchester Business School.
