Leadership
Leadership is key to stimulating innovation, driving change and to deliver results in increasingly competitive and complex circumstances. Designed for senior executives, our programmes will stimulate you to think about your contribution as a leader, whatever your role. We can help you to lead strategy, including the inevitable organisational politics that accompany this process, as well as lead teams and drive change.
Renowned for their contribution to management practice and deep working knowledge of business, our faculty draw upon their knowledge, and the major research interests we have in leadership at Cranfield.
Our portfolio of leadership programmes offers you an innovative, highly stimulating and challenging learning experience.
5 + 3 + 2 days
For senior professionals who want to review their leadership approach and discover new capabilities.
This programme uses a range of powerful approaches to help develop your leadership potential to find your pathway to sustained high performance. It will help you become an inspirational leader who others will want to follow, leading to exceptional team performance. And help you to venture into unknown territories, inspire colleagues and make difficult decisions.
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3 ½ + 3 + 2 days
For IT leaders and executives with a desire to lead in the future.
This programme will equip you with the knowledge, skills and tools you need as an IT leader, enabling you to improve your organisation’s effectiveness in the use of IT. By the end of the programme, you will have developed your leadership skills whilst shaping the strategic direction and value of IT in your organisation.
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5 days
For directors, senior managers and chief executives who wish to develop their skills in strategic leadership, and have or will shortly assume strategic responsibility for an organisation or company division.
This programme will give you the opportunity to consider the strategic leadership requirements of both your organisation and you as a leader. During the programme you will work on a tangible strategic plan and be given practical action points to implement the plan effectively.
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3 days
For experienced women in business who aspire to be in top leadership positions.
This programme, based on 20 years of research into women's leadership, will help you to develop strategies that will improve your promotional opportunities by feed back on your leadership profile. By the end of the programme you will have a strategy for developing your career and have an elite network of female professionals.
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2 days
For current and aspiring non-executive directors from all types of organizations.
This highly specialised seminar with leading speakers from organisations such as Hermes, 3i, Ernst & Young, Appointments commission, IRS and Greenspire Advisors will help you to understand the role and responsibilities of a Non Executive Director. By the end of the programme, you will be equipped with the tools and techniques to be a more effective Non Executive Director and the ability to increase your personal contribution to the board.
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6 days
For managers who are responsible for the creation and delivery of environmental sustainability strategies and change.
This programme aims to help those charged with implementing this agenda by focussing on the practical realities of leading for sustainability, rather than on introducing theory and concepts.
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5 + 6 days + 2 days
Think about your contribution as a strategic leader, develop a new perspective on your business leadership and discover how to lead with greater success.
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3 x 5 days + 2 days
On the Cranfield Advanced Development Programme, you can discover your business leadership capabilities, develop your potential to lead your organisation and feel confident in a strategy-making role.
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12 days + 2 days
The Cranfield General Management Programme can enhance your general management profile, expand your sphere of influence and optimise the value of your contribution.
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12 days + 2 days
Cranfield`s Accelerated Talent Development Programme will raise your game and develop your skills as a manager to improve your visibility, credibility and maturity.
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2 days
For anyone who is faced with managing competing agendas and priorities.
Examine politics, not as an organisational taboo, but as a constructive way of working with stakeholders - inside and outside the business - that need to be satisfied in order to get things done effectively.
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2.5 days
This programme is for senior managers and HR/OD specialists that want to explore new approaches to the strategic and interpersonal demands of implementing employee engagement (in difficult times) and ensure their employees are giving their best at work and not just 'performing'.
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