Director Development Programme

Five day programme - commencing 25 June 2026.

The Director Development Programme is designed to support directors or senior managers within businesses to support and grow their business or the department they lead. The objective is to equip you as a director or senior manager with the skills and confidence you need to drive your business forward and achieve your objectives.

How will the sessions be run?

This is a five day modular programme covering the following topic headings:

- Developing Vision, Values & Strategy Leadership
- Planning, Direction & Priorities
- Finance for Non Financial Directors
- People Management Approaches
- Driving Performance & leading change.

Each section is delivered roughly 2 weeks apart to give you chance to apply the principles covered, back in your workplace, before the next session.

These main areas are all interconnected as part of one process, which is primarily the setting and achieving of an agreed culture within the business context.

The sessions will be structured to be stages in a business development process. Developing a business culture has the potential to be too abstract, so the focus at every session will be for the participants to have specific action steps to begin during the session, and complete between sessions.

At each subsequent session, participants will be expected to discuss how they have applied the material covered during the previous session, so that clear connections and progress can be made.

This approach grounds the business development process in practicality, and ensures that the material covered will be used immediately, and that the process begun during the sessions can be sustained when the participants return to apply them in their business environment.

If you're a Director or Senior Manager in a company, this programme is designed for you to make a real difference in the ability of your business to consistently achieve objectives. This programme will give you the tools you need to make your business thrive and survive.


Agenda

- 09:30 - 16:30 — Day One - Developing Vision, Values & Strategy: The means used to identify and gain agreement with the board on the current situation, and future business culture objectives and possible changes in the Mission / Purpose / Identity.
- 09:30 - 16:30 — Day Two - Planning and Direction: Designing the structures / processes that will enable the identified culture to flourish.
- 09:30 - 16:30 — Day Three - Finance for Non - Finance Directors: The main financial statements, their use for the business, the categories within statements and what they mean.
- 09:30 - 16:30 — Day Four - People Management Approaches: Different management styles that can be used to develop the identified culture, and how to identify the current management styles.
- 09:30 - 16:30 — Day Five - Driving Performance & Leading Change: Measuring the outputs of the processes put in place to ensure that the identified culture is embedding and self sustaining.


What's included

- Lunch and refreshments are provided as part of this course.


Who this is for

Directors or Senior Managers in companies.