Naturally, your role within a business will determine your immediate priorities and objectives. However, the collective and overarching vision ought to remain unanimous throughout the company. A member of the management team is responsible for reinforcing and supporting this agreed objective in differing, though equally important ways.

Whatever your management level, we can provide the specific training to encourage results.

Relevant to middle levels of management, our Aspiring Leaders programme is designed to support and enhance its two fundamental roles: Realising objectives and making plans to achieving them, and impeding any issues that prevent those objectives from being actualised.

With a focus on developing people management skills, managers will learn how to get the most from their team by identifying goals and forming strategies in achieving them.

Our Management Essentials programme is designed to support the role of supervisory manager – those whose responsibility it is to guide individuals and teams into realising the how the vision of the organisation, objectives and values fits within their role.

The programme considers the behaviours of supervisory managers. By prioritising behaviours that support the intended direction of the organisation, a series of group based learning tasks encourages distribution of those behaviours throughout the team in a cost-effective way.

Over the course of eight one-day workshops spread during the graduates first two years of employment, we teach the necessary skills for progressive growth. Balancing practical and theoretical work, individuals are given the opportunity to thrive from the very beginning of their career.
The first year will focus on;
1. Personal Review
2. An Introduction to Project Working & Management
3. Personal Effectiveness and Self-Management
4. Effective Team Working

The second year will focus on;
1. Customer and Stakeholder Experience
2. Pitching & Presenting
3. Business & Commercial Awareness
4. Problem Solving, Negotiations & Decision Making.

Invest in the future of your organisation and in the future of valued employees with our Graduate Training Programme.

Utilise the team of business psychologists, coaches, and developmental specialists we have selected here at Akenham to supply a series of bite-sized interactive management ‘workouts’ for your team of managers.

Improving capability and confidence, the 2-hour leadership workouts achieves rapid change in management performance, in a cost effective and inspiring way.

By creating a programme based around a) planning and thinking skills, b) emphasising the importance of teamwork and leadership roles, c) managing performance and d) building communication skills, we have improved the conduct of numerous businesses.

The workouts not only equip managers with the ability and confidence to manage their time, team, and resources more effectively, but also improves self-belief. Through this newfound confidence, managers are motivated to continue to achieve results, and inspire the same behaviour in others. The workshops prime and prepare staff for continuous success, supplying tailored plan for sustainable company improvement.