Our five-day intensive Management and Leadership Development course is designed to provide promising executives and functional specialists with the skills, tools and competencies they need to operate effectively in today’s constantly changing and challenging business environment.

The course will enable you to:

• meet existing and future business challenges with capability, credibility and confidence
• develop the skills, knowledge and competencies that maximise your management and leadership potential
• grow and enhance your international business networks

Based in central London, Westminster Business School is one of the UK’s largest hubs for business and management education, highly regarded for blending academic expertise with real-world business experience. Our focus is on delivering education and development opportunities that enable current and aspiring business leaders to make a real difference to their organisations.

Course content

Strategic management

Practical tools and techniques to build and monitor effective strategies that ensure you achieve business objectives.

This session will:

• introduce you to the principles of the resource based view of strategy development
• show how competitive advantage can come from the possession of resources that are valuable, rare, inimitable and un-substitutable
• present a structured way of assessing strategic priorities
• provide a structured method for assessing strategic options

Leading organisational change

This session provides a toolkit that covers how to:

• manage the rational and emotional impact of change
• overcome blockers, whether personal, cultural or procedural
• support colleagues who need to face up to and make difficult decisions
• generate the confidence to make a difference

Leading in a changing environment

This session enables you to:

• understand, appreciate and learn from the accumulated wisdom and experience of some of the world’s most profound leaders
• familiarise yourself with the different trends in leadership research
• review your current leadership style and set development targets
• identify the values that are core to their life and underpin their actions

Financial management

This session will equip you with the knowledge and skills to:

• identify sources of funding for business projects
• refinance existing, costly loans
• ascertain the financial soundness of a business and detect early warning signals of possible financial stress
• enhance an organisation’s credit image, and gain access to capital at substantially reduced rates
• understand the terms, conditions and pre-requisites for raising finance from the international capital markets

Marketing for the progressive organisation

Covering both business-to-consumer and business-to-business markets, this session includes the theory and practical exercises that ensure you can:

• evaluate your organisation’s marketing practices
• understand the key concepts and tools required to maximise marketing success across your organisations

Project management

An introduction to PRINCE2®, one of the world’s most widely used project management methodologies.

The session will:

• cover key elements of PRINCE2®
• provide an aerial view of the methodology’s processes

Accounting for managers

This session provides the skills and knowledge you need to:

• appreciate the financial implications of key business decisions
• manage financial resources efficiently and effectively
• understand the financial position of a company
• analyse and interpret key financial statements
• assess the financial health of an organisation
• apply and evaluate decision-making tools for cost management, operational and strategic planning and control
• prepare and manage budgets

Corporate entrepreneurship

This workshop session is designed to develop your skills and knowledge in corporate entrepreneurship and covers:

• innovation
• changing mind-sets
• negotiation skills
• identifying new business ideas and assessing their technological, market and financial feasibility
• business planning

Decision-making

Using case study analysis, this session enables you to put into practice what you have learned during the programme, through applying new skills and knowledge to real-world situations.

Ethical leadership

This session will enable you to:

• deal with complex issues and dilemmas calmly and effectively
• develop a more broadly informed and resilient approach to decision-making
• act with integrity, especially in challenging circumstances
• identify when rules and regulations might impede ethical decision-making and implementation
• develop a framework for responding wisely and with careful consideration in such circumstances
• build the courage to follow your moral compass, tapping into the ethical leader within
• bring out the best in yourself and in the people and organisations you lead

Fees

The course fee includes:

• programme delivery (minimum 30 hours of teaching)
• dedicated delegate support during the five-day programme
• certificate of attendance
• course folder and course materials
• lunch during each of the five teaching days
• two tea/coffee breaks during each teaching day
• welcome reception
• farewell reception (presentation of certificates)