Talent Development Programme Brochure

Talent Development Programme Professional development and personal growth to accelerate your career

Accelerating the career path trajectory of high-potential leaders

Blending professional development with personal growth, this immersive learning experience gives you a clearer strategic understanding, broadening your business expertise and developing your leadership capabilities.

Whether you are: • Seeking to develop your management perspective and leadership capabilities,

• Looking to develop the ability to influence without formal authority, • Learning to manage with competence and lead with purpose; This programme supports you to maximise your potential and help you transition to the next level, working effectively across functions and developing a greater understanding of the business as a whole. The Talent Development Programme provides professional development, building on your overall organisational understanding and developing your strategic focus. You will gain a broader perspective and consider the impact your department or area has on the wider organisation and how it can add value.

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Benefits to you and your organisation

Benefits for you • Greater confidence and competence to work outside your comfort zone. • A wider perspective on management and business, enabling you to make a substantive contribution to the whole organisation. • A strategic mindset so you can focus and align your activity to adding long-term value. • Increased understanding of decision making, constructive politics and social dynamics, allowing you to effectively influence and engage across all levels, functions and cultures, even without formal authority.

Benefits for your organisation • Enhanced operational functional team performance and leadership, • Increased empowerment and innovation, • Less silo working and more cross-business collaboration, • Strategically aligned operational and functional development, • Bottom-up as well as top-down change capability, • A stronger talent and succession pipeline.

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“This is a great time to reflect on yourself and think about how you can make a real, positive impact to the business and wider life.” Seonaid Crosby, Finance Manager, Scottish Futures Trust

Programme details

Join early career, high-potential managers from corporate, mid-market and family firms across a wide range of industries as you prepare to capitalise on the opportunities that the emerging landscape is presenting. Over 12 months, you will learn new skills, examine your reality, explore concepts and how to apply them, ultimately enabling you to: • Gain the confidence to lead without formal authority, • Develop your strategic focus, ensuring you align activity to adding long-term value, • Increase your understanding of decision making, constructive politics and social dynamics, • Drive self-empowerment and innovation, • Collaborate and influence effectively across functions, • Implement bottom-up change capability.

Programme structure

Personal development

Month one

Month two

Month three

Review day one Review day two

MU coaching sessions

MU coaching sessions

MU coaching sessions

Introduction and coaching with MU (Mercuri Urval) online Module one Approx. 8 hours

Awareness and development of business leadership skills face-to-face Module two Five day residential

Awareness and development of organisational and interpersonal leadership skills face-to-face Module three Five day residential

Six month progress review day face-to-face One day

12 mont h continuing development review day face-to-face One day

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Module one

Introduction and coaching with MU (Mercuri Urval), online Approx. 8 hours Includes orientation of the programme, introductions and content consumption. You will undertake a personal inventory of your leadership values and skills with our partner MU, a pioneer in the predictive assessment of people.

Module two

Module three

Awareness and development of business leadership skills, face-to-face Five days residential This module focuses on blending professional development and personal growth. You will develop a wider business perspective and clearer strategic knowledge that deepens your understanding of self, stakeholders and business functions, providing the building blocks of essential business knowledge and personal development.

Awareness and development of organisational and interpersonal leadership skills, face-to-face Five days residential Re-drawing the boundaries of your influence to enable you to; work beyond your preferred routines and comfort zone; inspire change across the business, outside of your normal area of expertise and authority and build relationships up, down, across and outside of your business.

Sessions in module three include: • Strategic business challenge, • Emotional intelligence, • Social capital and networks, • Organisational power and politics, • Understanding organisational culture and change, • Organisational maturity, • Communication and influencing skills, • Conflict and resilience, • Values and beliefs, • Skills practice - challenging conversations.

You will explore: • The world beyond the horizon, • Strategies - competitive, marketing, operations, • Finance and capital project evaluation, • Supply chain sustainability, • Organisational leadership, • Team leadership and engagement, • Strategic decision making, • Developing your managerial potential, • Developing your coaching style.

You will also identify a strategic business issue that you will work on throughout the programme.

You will also formulate a three-month development action plan and engage in reflective discussions throughout.

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Programme details

Review day one

Review day two

Six month progress review day, face-to-face One day Three months after you complete module three, we invite you back to Cranfield to review the progress you have made against your action plans. You will then use these learnings as a platform to formulate ambitious development targets.

12 month continuing development review day, face-to-face One day

To support your continuing development, we invite you back to Cranfield for a 12 month review day, to reflect on the long-term impact of your development on you and your businesses. We’ll also support you in managing your personal development and to plan the next phase of your leadership career.

Key features • Be inspired, challenged and enlightened through real-life business problems, • Attain an integrated suite of leadership development tools, • Gain insight from peer-to-peer learning, • Draw on our renowned Cranfield faculty for research, thought leadership and global perspective on key issues to equip you with powerful insights, • Evaluate your own capabilities, using proven psychometric tools with one-to-one coaching from MU and faculty,

• Experience time-pressured team challenges and authentic business simulations, • Develop a plan to accelerate personal growth and change in your business.

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To book contact: Cranfield Executive Development team Tel: +44 (0)1234 754500 Email: execdev@cranfield.ac.uk

For more information visit: www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/tdp

Programme philosophy The programme content is delivered over three modules as part of an immersive learning and growth experience. Between modules you will apply your learning back in the workplace while working on plans for your business area, supported by peer-to-peer coaching and formal coaching from the programme director and MU. Ongoing coaching Throughout your Cranfield experience you will benefit from executive coaching which is focused on your growth as a leader and integrated into the programme structure including face-to-face reviews after 6 and 12 months of starting the programme. Individual organisational project You will identify and execute a real life project that adds value to your organisation. Your line manager’s involvement at crucial stages ensures your proposal is both actionable and achievable. Business simulation – learn by doing You will work with a group of fellow participants to assess complex situations relating to a fictitious commercial business and make strategic decisions, enabling you to put into practice what you learn.

Professional development To broaden your perspective on management, the programme will focus on a range of organisational functions and the leadership skills they demand to deliver results, including:

Personal growth To develop your ability to influence without authority, this programme incorporates psychometric assessments, alongside individual coaching and personal development, to determine and maximise your leadership style. You’ll develop a range of organisational and interpersonal leadership skills. Content topics include: • Organisational culture, power and politics, • Influencing individuals, • Teams and stakeholder management, • Conflict and resilience, • Social networks and relationships, • Personal power and impact, • Personal leadership.

• Strategy, • Finance,

• Marketing, • Operations, • Supply chain, • Global environment, • Organisational leadership, • Integrated view of the business.

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Programme Director

Philippa Thurgur BA (Hons) MSc Philippa has extensive experience in designing and directing successful executive development initiatives for middle and senior managers, enabling them to develop a broader organisational perspective and accelerate their personal development, particularly in their general management leadership and team capabilities. Philippa’s experience includes programme directing executive development interventions for a wide range of clients in a broad range of sectors, from SMEs to large global organisations across Europe, Asia Pacific and the USA, many of whom are undertaking significant organisational change.

“I can’t overemphasise how important it’s been for my career. I very quickly within a year of joining my current business was promoted to the role of General Manager to run the business. I’m completely sure that would not have happened, were it not for the skill set that I was able to develop at Cranfield and the fact that I actually took the time to implement the skills and techniques that I learned at Cranfield in my business.”

Craig Moffat, General Manager, British Pullman.

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The solution described in this document is provide by Cranfield Management Development Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cranfield University.

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