Management Development

New Directions designs and delivers executive and management development and supervisory training programmes for all sizes of organisations, from core communication skills in multi-national companies to management development activities for complete management teams in SMEs and not-for-profit organisations. New Directions starts by researching your needs and the needs of the target group (often working in conjunction with corporate change and culture programmes), and then designing workshops and events that utilise well researched and practical models, exercises and case studies; developing new exercises and activities to simulate the real working environment where necessary. We follow a learner centred approach in all of our designs.

Key Benefits

Tailored programmes designed to meet your needs

Well researched and practical models, exercises and designs

Learner centred approach

Capabilities

Management skills

Courses in individual skills such as influencing and negotiation (see below), team leadership, performance management, strategic management and integrated management development programmes.

 

Promoting a participative management style leadership and effective teamworking, using Myers Briggs and Belbin team models.

 

Programmes are always individually designed for the organisation, run successfully throughout Western, Eastern & Central Europe, Africa and the Middle East and for managers from small, large and public sector organisations.

 

Click here for some example course designs

 

 

Communications, Influencing and Negotiation

Using either our own model, researched through practical work with managers from over 40 countries through the Castle Consultants International network, or a sister model developed by Learning Consortium depending on the specific organisational and individual needs

Versions have been designed for cross-cultural/ international situations, negotiation by telephone, working in remote teams, interviewing, presenting and other specific applications.

Materials translated into French, German and Dutch language, with dual local language/English tutors in eight languages.

Click on the course name for more information: Influencing for Results, Focus on Influence, Negotiation for Results

 

 

Winning Projects!

A unique project management programme focussed on real projects and teams, using a blended training approach of e-learning accessed through intranet or internet portals, one-to-one telephone coaching, in-depth project reviews and intensive face to face workshops covering both the technical planning skills and the interpersonal implementation skills necessary for effective project management.

 

Run in collaboration with Inter-Connect SARL and Performance Partners,

 

Click here for more information on Winning Projects!

 

 

Cross cultural awareness and application

We focus on communication skills in the context of the diversity of cultural difference, whether that difference is due to nationality, language, race, gender, age, religion, profession, function, or any of the other potential differences that exist. We also work in the area of understanding and changing organisation culture using models developed ourselves from initial research by Roger Harrison and Charles Handy.

Over the past twenty years we have worked in, and with people from Africa, North and South America, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Our consultants live in these regions and can work in eight languages—English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Danish.

Our consultant network have written several books and articles, and have developed exercises and interactive games on the subject of diversity and cross cultural communication.

Click here to access the bibliography and references.

 

New Approaches to Strategic Planning

The workshop investigates why most strategies fail and looks at the new agenda for organisations: Stakeholders, inclusivity, knowledge management, organisation learning, scenario thinking, rapid and continuous change. Learn how to use methods for this new environment: influencing and creating your own future, enter into dialogue to appreciating what works; and explore processes for creating commitment and conducting strategic planning in large groups (Future Search Conferences, Open Space Conferences, Real Time Strategic Change) through participation and case studies.

 

This workshop lends itself to in-house application where the management team responsible for strategic planning can work together through the medium of the workshop to investigate and develop methodologies for its own strategy development.

 

Click here for more information on New Approaches to Strategic Planning.

Case studies in management training:

The best way to understand the scope and success of New Directions in management developmentis through a review of the range of our past work

Click on the case study title to get more information...

Project management

• Project management skills in a police force
• Introducing a project management culture to a global marketing and sales department
• International partnership project management

Performance management

• Performance management in the banking sector in Africa
• Developing coaching, performance management and remuneration decision making skills in a major bank

Management development

• Influencing skills development for IT professionals
• Production management strategic leadership
• The development of management skills for Principal Officers in Criminal Justice
• Developing a technical organisation to meet new market challenges
• Interpersonal skills development for managers and professionals
• Designing and implementing international sales management training
• Introducing competence based training for area managers
• Designing and implementing international management training

Executive development

• Executive leadership development
• Production management strategic leadership
• Introducing a team structure to an international oil company
• International partnership project management
• Organisation Development Projects in Eastern and Central Europe

Last modified: August 03, 2007