New Funding for Leadership and Management Development
Develop yourself – and develop your enterprise
Through the Leadership and Management Advisory Service, funded by the Skills Funding Agency, senior leaders of businesses and social enterprises have a great opportunity to develop their leadership and management skills.
As one of the providers, Gecko Programmes now delivers to this service in the East and West Midlands. Gecko Programmes offer is a blend of distance learning materials that are supported by coaching and mentoring.
Gecko Programmes has a suite of learning opportunities that target leadership and management, matching these impacts:
- Further developing an effective personal style – such as developing communication and presentation skills, developing a vision and mission, management style, inspirational leadership
- Creating an effective business culture – such as managing difficult people and conflict resolution, building a senior team, encouraging team working, managing change, encouraging creativity
- Planning and developing your business and teams within it – such as team building, people management, people processes and performance management, developing structures, roles and responsibilities
- Building high performance across your business – such as motivation skills, staff development, coaching skills, developing performance measures and managing people within a performance framework.
Whatever you choose, there is a funding requirement that the learning matches at least one of these.
We offer a blend of flexible e-learning that is supported by coaching and mentoring. The units can be chosen from an extensive suite of e-learning, be coached by experts in the subject, and your whole package is supported by a mentor to work with you to use the new knowledge and techniques to have an immediate impact on your enterprise, and plan the future impacts.
This package is:
- tailored to your needs - you choose exactly what you need
- completed when you have the time - there is no time taken away from the workplace
- supported pound for pound – up to £1,000 of tax-free grant
- and you have chosen it to develop your enterprise
You are the driver
As this programme has the components of flexible learning, coaching and mentoring, this will enable you to choose the content, style and timeline that is most appropriate to yourself and your enterprise. Often the role of coach and mentor will be provided by the same consultant, except when the chosen learning package requires expertise from more than one coach.
For more information about the funding available, please click here.
To more details about applying for the LMAS and to complete an application form, please click here.
To download a copy of our Leadership and Management Brochure, please click here.