Talent Development Programme Brochure

Talent Development Programme Accelerating the career path trajectory of emerging leaders.

The Talent Development Programme blends professional development with personal growth. This immersive learning experience will enhance your strategic focus and align you closer to organisational goals, by broadening your business expertise and developing your leadership capabilities to help you become more impactful within your organisation. Whether you are: • Aspiring to accelerate your career trajectory by becoming more influential within your organisation, • Seeking to build on your leadership skills to effectively lead teams within your organisation Transforming the next generation of rising talents into future leaders This programme will support your professional development, by building on your overall organisational understanding to further develop your strategic focus. You will gain a clearer perspective of how organisations operate, and the role business functions play in the business strategy, so you can closely align yourself and your teams to business goals and create more value. To explore personal growth, you’ll have the opportunity to turn inward to understand your leadership style, how you can effectively lead teams, become more self-aware and influential with a range of tools to increase productivity and innovation through collaboration within your function. • Wanting to understand team dynamics and how to successfully lead teams, • Striving to strategically align your actions closely to your organisation.

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Benefits to you and your organisation

As a delegate on this programme, you will expand your business knowledge to give you a sense of how a business works. In addition to that, take a deep dive into self-leadership by turning inward and learning how you can become more self-aware, influential, and effective within their business. Other benefits include:

Benefits for you • Greater organisational awareness to align your actions to business strategy, • Tools and frameworks to increase functional collaboration, leading to increased organisational performance, • Techniques to improve your team leadership skills and foster creativity and innovation, • Enhanced understanding of team dynamics and how to effectively lead, • The confidence and clarity needed to be more influential at decision-making within the organisation.

Benefits for your organisation • A leader who can closely align their team/function to business strategy, • Increased collaboration within an organisation, • A leader with advanced skills to improve team dynamics and performance, • A range of tools and frameworks to drive innovation and creativity within their function, • A leader with the confidence to provide key insights and ideas to decision-making.

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“Reflecting on the programme, you realise that it equips you with all those skills that you needed, not just to go back into the business, but also to go back into life itself and look at things differently and have positive conversations.” Ed Walker, Audience and Content Director (Regionals), Reach plc

Programme details

1. Gain the confidence needed to lead and and create impact, 2. Develop your strategic focus, ensuring you align activities to business strategy, 3. Increase your understanding of decision making, organisational politics and social dynamics, 4. Acquire a range of tools to drive self-empowerment and innovation, 5. Increase collaboration within your organisation to drive performance. 6. Implement bottom-up change capability so you can influence at all levels of your function. Join emerging leaders from corporate, mid-market and family firms across a wide range of industries, as you explore the business navigate and take a deep dive into leadership and what it means to lead. Over 12 months, you will learn new skills, examine your reality, self-leadership, and explore concepts and how to apply them, ultimately enabling you to:

Programme architecture

Programme structure

Personal development

Access to learning

Module one

Module two

First review Second review

Development discussion

Coaching session

Coaching session

Personal and professional growth - online Approx. 8 hours

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

Awareness and development of organisational and interpersonal leadership

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

12-month progress review - face-to-face/hybrid One day

skills - face-to-face Five day residential

Business simulation

Strategic business challenge

Individual business project

Business development

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Access to learning

Introduction to programme, online Approximately 8 hours Delve into your journey on the Talent Development Programme with a carefully curated section of content. You will explore a range of activities that involve key business functions, engage with your peers, and start to understand your leadership style and how that’s impacting your organisation. In addition to this, you will begin your business simulation experience, where you and your team will assume roles and lead a fictional organisation through an ever-changing business environment.

Module one

Module two

Professional development and personal leadership, face-to-face Five days residential A combination of personal and professional development, that will increase your organisational awareness by exploring how key business functions operate and the role they play in the overall business strategy. You will take a deeper dive into the realities of leadership, developing a management perspective and tools to further enhance your leadership skills, by turning inward to become more effective and influential within your organisation.

Action plan implementation, face-to-face Five days residential

Consolidate your personal and professional development by creating your three-month action plan, where you embark on a project to solve an organisational challenge and continue implementing a range of innovative tools and frameworks to increase the performance of your team and align them closer to organisational goals.

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Programme details

First review

Second review

Six-month progress review day, face-to-face One day Three months after the completion of module three, we invite you back to Cranfield to review the results of your three-month action plan with your peers. You will then use these learnings to formulate ambitious development targets, to aid your transition into an effective and influential leader.

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, where you and your peers reflect on the long-term impact of your personal and professional development on you and your organisation.

Key features • Be inspired, challenged, and enlightened through real-life business problems, • Attain an integrated suite of leadership development tools, • Gain invaluable insights from peer-to-peer reflective learning, • Evaluate your own capabilities, using proven psychometric tools and one-to-one coaching, • Experience time-pressured team challenges and authentic business simulations, • Develop a plan to accelerate personal growth and instrument change in your organisation, • Draw on our renowned Cranfield faculty for research, thought leadership and global perspective on key issues to equip you with powerful insights.

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“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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Programme philosophy This programme is delivered over two modules as part of an immersive learning experience. As you progress through the programme, you’ll broaden your organisational awareness, by understanding how business functions operate and how you can align your team and functional activities closer to business strategy. To develop your leadership capabilities and aid your transition, you’ll have access to a range of ready-to-implement tools and techniques that will also be supplemented with guided reflection, peer-to-peer learning, and formal coaching with the programme director to help you gain the clarity and confidence needed to drive change and performance. Ongoing coaching Throughout your Cranfield experience, you will benefit from executive coaching after each module, which is focused on your growth as a leader. By developing your self-leadership, you’ll understand how to translate your plans into action and how you can start to drive change in your organisation by enabling your team and function to thrive. Individual organisational project You will identify and execute a real-life project that will add value to your organisation and demonstrate what you have learned on the programme. Your line manager’s involvement at crucial stages of your project will ensure your proposal is both actionable, achievable and designed to create real impact in your organisation. Live business simulation – learn by doing You will work with a group of fellow participants to assess complex situations relating to a fictitious commercial business operating in an ever-changing business environment. You will work to make strategic decisions involving key business functions, enabling you to put into practice what you learn on the programme in a risk-free environment.

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

Personal growth This programme will give you a much deeper understanding of how you work and impact others. This will enable you to develop your self-leadership, by implementing new ways to increase your overall effectiveness. Examples include: • Organisational culture, power, and politics, • Influencing individuals, • Team dynamics and stakeholder management, • Conflict and resilience, • Networking and building meaningful relationships.

• Strategy, • Finance,

• Marketing, • Operations, • Supply chain, • Global environment, • Organisational leadership.

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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.

Key contributors

Dr. Jutta Tobias Visiting Fellow

Jutta Tobias Mortlock (Ph.D.) is a Social Psychologist with over 20 years of experience in organisational development and capacity-building in six countries on three continents.

Dr. Karen Janman Faculty Associate Dr. Karen Janman is a Faculty Associate at Cranfield School of Management. She is a Registered and Chartered Occupational Psychologist with 30 years of experience operating as a consultant, business coach and company director. Professor Joe Nellis CBE Professor of Global Economy Professor Joe Nellis is Professor of Global Economy specialising in global macroeconomics, business environmental analysis, strategic thinking and management development.

Professor Cliff Bowman Chair in Strategic Management

Professor Cliff Bowman has undertaken a wide range of consulting assignments which focus on the facilitation of strategy processes within firms and has written eight books and published over sixty papers.

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