Tailored Courses

Due to the skills and knowledge we have, we are able to put together courses and workshops in an area when your organsation needs assistance.

• New to Management

This programme is intended to help new entry managers to become productive and effective quickly.

The appointment of a manager is a risk for both the company and the appointee - the company generally loses productivity and is exposed to risk as the manager progressively finds his or her feet in the new role. Also, the new appointee requires a new skill set - which they may or may not acquire naturally. The new responsibilities alone create stress - much of this can be alleviated by giving the new entrant manager this skill set in the form of management principles and guidelines.

The course will not only teach the delegates, but it will give adequate time for discussion and exploration of the various concepts.

• Delivery of Corporate Strategy

Many organisations can define their strategy - the challenge is to implement it and deliver the anticipated results. The pace of change means that leaders and managers need to understand the strategy and take decisions to move the organisation forward. This programme equips leaders and managers with practical skills and tools to enable them to interpret the strategy, engage individuals and teams and build their commitment, translate strategy into action centred business plans, meantime responding to issues and opportunities as they emerge.

• Introduction to Performance Management

Performance management is widely accepted one on the major approaches to enhancing the profitability of organisations. Performance Management is a term which may be used to collectively describe Strategy Maps, Balanced Scorecard and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

The introduction of Performance Management is a fundamental organisational transition where all people within the organisation adopt a proactive and productive set of behaviours - it is a strategic topic for organisations to ensure competitiveness in today's business environment.

The programme is aimed at organisations who are considering embarking on the introduction of performance management and those who wish to re-assess their experience of how performance management is operating in their organisation.

• Enterprise Risk Management

Management of risk at an enterprise wide level has, in recent years, become a discrete activity generally represented at board level by committee. Risk management formalization is also a requirement in many of the regulatory regimes.

This programme offers executives an approach to the introduction of an enterprise wide risk management system and how to establish risk awareness throughout the organisation.

• Organisational Change

In today's business climate, organisations are driven towards change largely by the rampant pressures of the latest technology and globalisation. A fundamental truth is that only the organisations who can change as quickly as their business environment survive.

Managing change successfully is an essential management skill in today's fast-paced business world. Change is often seen as threatening if not understood - this course teaches the lessons of this well-trodden road and provides a framework such that delegates can manage major change programmes with confidence expected from managers tasked with this level of responsibility.

Change is of two types:

• Evolutionary change where organisations make slow and steady transitions
• Step change where fundamental differences occur at organisation wide levels e.g. the implementation of a new organisational design, the introduction of a performance culture, a major project such as the introduction of an organisation wide software, merger or acquisition

This course focuses on the latter type of change.

• Effective Business Communications

This course deals with the practical issues of making written communications work effectively.  It is for anyone who has a responsibility for communicating with customers, managers and employees, and the outside world in general. It aims to send delegates away able to write quickly and effectively.  They will also understand the importance of committing instructions and information to paper and not relying on memory of verbal instructions.

• Enterprise Governance

Regulatory compliance, organisational performance and risk, if not strategically aligned can easily be in conflict with one and other. Such conflict throws a raft of primary inefficiencies which will be compounded by a plethora of knock-on effects in the organisation. This is compounded where organisations operate in multiple jurisdictions and consequently have complex compliance and disclosure obligations.

These three facets of business management (corporate governance, organisational performance and risk management) can be harmonized by strategic alignment with the founding principles of the organisation. This workshop takes a "how to" approach, leaving delegates with a practical understanding on delivering them within their organisations.

The workshop will demonstrate to the delegates how to make the alignments with the founding principles of the organisation, governance and risk. Roll-out of the approach can be a complex activity and requires a control mechanism - we have developed the Governor software to achieve this. The workshop also shows how these aspects can be disseminated throughout the organisation in a controlled and structured manner using the Governor software.