Management development programmes are critical to employee engagement, organisational success and even national economic well-being. They are essential for enhancing the skills, competencies and knowledge of managers. Management development is the challenges of developing managers, the relationship between management and leadership, and the link between management development and business strategy. This programme explores techniques used to identify development needs, including management competences and performance management. It goes on to look at formal learning interventions, work-based methods, and ways to evaluate management development programmes

1. Social and Business Environment
2. Business and Finance
3. Leadership and People Management
4. Strategy and Sustainability
5. Business Operations and Innovation
6. Evaluating Work and Organizational Development
7. Succession Planning
8. Leadership in the workplace
9. Working in Strategic Environment
10. Business Planning and building a strategy

At the end of the programme participants will be able to:

1. Achieve an integrated view of the organisation in line with the local and the international market economy
2. Analyse economic risk
3. Confirm and broaden technical competence at the managerial level
4. Develop ethical competence at work and at home
5. Build interpersonal skills, hone emotional intelligence and increase teaming capabilities

This programme is designed for first line managers at all levels in medium to large organisations including directors and senior managers and head of divisions/departments /units, team leaders; new supervisors and managers with less than one year of experience, aspiring and soon-to-be promoted managers, experienced supervisors with little or no formal supervisor training.