Every organisation eventually runs into the same problem: today's competent managers are not automatically tomorrow's competent managers, and future needs keep changing faster than most teams can adapt. Management development exists to close exactly that gap — it is the systematic process that keeps an organisation supplied with the capable managers it needs, now and later, while also building a real pipeline of administrative succession.

This training course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy is for anyone who wants to sharpen their creative capabilities within their own area of management. Delegates learn how management development improves the performance of existing managers, clarifies goals for managers and their teams, and gives people the guidance they need to grow their knowledge, skills and careers. Because development and training are, at their core, an advisory function aimed at making things better, no organisation that wants to modernise, update itself and grow its profits can really afford to skip it.

What You Will Learn

• Sharpen and grow the skills every participant needs to carry out the managerial function at the highest level.
• Gain a full grounding in the basic and modern concepts of management development, along with behavioural skills around motivation and teamwork.
• Understand leadership activities and management development, and review the theories and assumptions that management development is built on.
• Strengthen the ability to use measurement, evaluation and effective administrative review.
• Get up to speed on recent trends in management development strategies and the most common administrative methods.

Who Should Attend

• Managers of commercial institutions and companies.
• Heads of management departments within companies.
• All employees in management departments.
• Business administration students at university level.

Module 1: What Management Development Really Means

• Defining management development and why it matters.
• Key issues related to the administrative development of organisations.
• Models that can be used in management development.

Module 2: Where Management Development Happens

• The different areas of administrative development within organisations.
• Managing people, resources, information and processes.
• Strategic and operational leadership of individuals and groups.

Module 3: Organisational Structure and Work Procedures

• Core concepts related to organisational structure.
• Topics in developing organisational structure.
• Different types of work procedures and models.

Module 4: Obstacles and Approaches to Management Development

• Problems and obstacles organisations face in the management development process.
• Common approaches to management development, and why companies pursue it in the first place.

Module 5: Audit, Review and Evaluation

• The foundations of audit and evaluation applications.
• The role of administrative review in achieving effective control.