MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Developing managers ready for greater responsibility.
DEVELOP THE LEADERS YOUR ORGANISATION WILL RELY ON NEXT
Practical. Personal. Built for the realities of senior leadership.
Moving into more senior leadership is a significant shift. Success is no longer defined by how well you manage your own responsibilities. It increasingly depends on your judgement, your ability to influence others, how you lead through complexity and change, and your ability to think beyond the immediate demands of your role.
The Management Development Programme is designed for experienced middle and senior managers ready to make that shift. Combining practical development, psychometric insight and individual coaching, the programme challenges participants to understand themselves more deeply, broaden how they think and strengthen the capabilities they need to lead at a higher level.
BENEFITS FOR THE LEARNER
The Management Development Programme is designed to help experienced managers move beyond managing activity and strengthen their impact as leaders. By completing the programme, participants will:
Understand themselves at a deeper level
Use psychometric insight to understand strengths, preferences, behaviours and how these influence others.
Strengthen leadership judgement
Develop the confidence to assess situations, consider different perspectives and make better decisions when the answer isn't obvious.
Lead courageous conversations
Approach difficult conversations with greater clarity and confidence, balancing challenge, empathy and the outcome required.
Lead people through change
Understand how people experience change and strengthen the leadership behaviours needed to create clarity, engagement and momentum.
Develop others through coaching
Move beyond providing answers and use coaching skills to challenge thinking, build ownership and develop capability in others.
Increase emotional intelligence
Build greater awareness of your own emotions and those of others, and understand how this affects relationships, communication and leadership impact.
Think more strategically
Step beyond immediate operational priorities, consider the wider organisation and translate strategic thinking into purposeful action.
Every participant leaves with a stronger understanding of themselves as a leader and a clearer view of how they want to lead as their responsibilities grow.
WHY MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT MATTERS
The skills that make someone a successful operational manager are not necessarily the skills they need as their responsibilities increase.
More senior roles require leaders to step back from the detail, lead through others, navigate competing priorities, influence across boundaries and make decisions where there may be no obvious answer.
Without that transition, capable managers can remain too involved in day-to-day delivery, become the solution to every problem and struggle to create the capacity needed for themselves — and their people — to grow.
The Management Development Programme creates deliberate time and challenge for managers to make that transition.
WHY CHOOSE THE LEADERSHIP
ESSENTIALS PROGRAMME
PERSONAL INSIGHT
Psychometric profiling provides a deeper understanding of individual leadership preferences, behaviours and impact.
INDIVIDUAL COACHING
Dedicated 1:1 coaching creates space to explore personal challenges, development priorities and how learning applies to the participant's own role.
EXPERIENCED PRACTITIONERS
Development is led by practitioners with extensive leadership, coaching, HR and organisational experience.
PRACTICAL APPLICATION
Development is led by practitioners with extensive leadership, coaching, HR and organisational experience.
PRACTICAL APPLICATION
The programme connects leadership thinking directly to the situations, decisions and relationships participants are dealing with at work.
WHO IT’S FOR
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Middle managers taking on broader organisational responsibility
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Experienced managers preparing for senior leadership
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Functional and departmental leaders who increasingly need to lead through others
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High-potential managers identified through succession and talent planning
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Organisations looking to strengthen their future senior leadership capability
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
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Format: Six development modules supported by individual coaching and psychometric insight
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Psychometrics: Facet5 and EQ-i profiling with individual feedback
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Approach: Practical development, personal reflection and application within the participant's own role
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Outcome: Participants bring their learning together by sharing their personal development story and receive ILM recognition
MODULES OVERVIEW
INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT
The six modules provide structure, but the programme is deliberately personal. Participants bring their own leadership experiences, challenges and ambitions into the programme.
Facet5 and EQ-i psychometric insight, individual coaching, practitioner challenge and reflection help each person make sense of the learning and decide how it should influence their own leadership. We don't expect every participant to leave thinking or leading in exactly the same way.
We want them to leave with stronger foundations, greater self-awareness and the judgement and confidence to lead effectively at the next level.
MEET THE PROGRAMME TUTORS
Navigate LEP is delivered by some of the UK’s most respected leadership practitioners, bringing real-world experience and depth of expertise to every session.
JOE BELL
Leadership and Development Specialist
Joe brings over 25 years of learning and development expertise across retail, utilities, transport and manufacturing.
A Fellow of both the CIPD and the Institute of Leadership and Management, Joe specialises in translating people development into measurable organisational improvement.
He has extensive experience in leadership development, coaching and psychometrics and has worked with organisations including Manchester United, Gousto, Essity, KPMG, the NHS, Unilever and Waters.
MADDY RYDER
Leadership Coach and HR Consultant
Maddy is an experienced HR leader, leadership coach and Fellow of the CIPD, with more than 15 years' experience developing people and building HR capability across different industries.
Her particular expertise includes leadership development, coaching, high-performing teams, employee engagement and developing managers.
Maddy is also certified in DISC and Facet5 profiling, using psychometric insight to strengthen self-awareness and leadership effectiveness.
RESULTS YOU CAN EXPECT
Organisations investing in the Management Development Programme can expect to develop managers who are better equipped to:
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Step confidently into broader and more senior leadership responsibilities
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Make considered decisions in complex situations
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Lead difficult conversations rather than avoid them
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Develop capability and ownership in others
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Lead people more effectively through change
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Think beyond their own function and immediate priorities
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Understand their personal leadership impact
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Translate organisational priorities into action through their teams
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TAKE THE NEXT STEP
Develop the leaders who will shape what comes next. The Management Development Programme can be delivered for organisations looking to strengthen their middle and senior leadership capability, support succession planning or prepare high-potential managers for greater responsibility.