Director Development Programme

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.

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.

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

- 2026-10-08 09:30 — 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, at all levels of the business.
- 2026-10-22 09:30 — Day Two - Planning and Direction: Designing the structures / processes that will enable the identified culture to flourish.
- 2026-11-05 09:30 — Day Three - Finance for Non-Finance Directors: The main financial statements, their use for the business, the categories within statements and what they mean.
- 2026-11-19 09:30 — 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 structures and processes that have created the present culture.
- 2026-12-03 09:30 — 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 provided


Who this is for

Directors or Senior Managers in companies.