Take CLC courses at Leeds Metropolitan University
27th August 2007Introduction
Corporate Learning Consultants are pleased to make available a range of short courses in association with Leeds Metropolitan University. Developed for organizational teams, these one week to four weeks courses can be customized to meet client needs. The content below is indicative. Delivery is by Leeds Metropolitan University. Courses will be delivered on campus as residential programs.
Courses offered (indicative list)
| Course | Duration | Indicative content |
|---|---|---|
| Communicating with impact – managing the interface process | 5 Days 10 Days | The professional practitioner. Communicating with impact, engagement and negotiation skills, analytical and evaluative skills. Independent thinking and thinking out of the box. Time-management - including self-directed learning, decision-making and reflective practise. |
| Leadership | 5 Days or 10 Days or 20 Days |
Leadership styles: collective and transitional, performance measurement, crisis management and internal control, communications and empowering your people. Inspiring innovation and innovative thinking. Practical command and leadership. |
| Office Management | 5 Days or 10 Days |
Strategies for the development and integration of people processes and resources, the people implications of strategic change, managing a team, empowerment and engagement, health and safety, leading a team, ethics and practice of the management of people. Developing intellectually capability and knowledge sharing. |
| Project Management | 5 Days or 10 Days |
Project management and team leading skills |
| Supply Chain Operations Management | 5 Days or 10 Days |
Operations strategy, Materials management, Production planning and control, Project planning, Operations networks, Service design and management, Operations logistics, Process design, Operations quality Management, Supply chain management |
| TQM and Benchmarking | 5 Days or 10 Days |
Business process re-engineering - rethinking, processes, methods of working, management systems. Process evaluation & measurement. Process & business improvement frameworks, TQM, six sigma, EFQM, kaizen, balanced scorecard benchmarking. The nature of systems thinking to gain competitive advantage. |
About Leeds Metropolitan University
“Leeds Metropolitan University is striving to be a world-class regional university, with world-wide horizons, using all our talents to the full. We are one of the largest universities in the country, with over 52,000 students and 3,500 staff. We have two contrasting learning environments in Leeds, the traditional setting of one campus in the world famous sporting area of Headingley and one intertwined with the business, health, civic and entertainment quarters of Leeds. Our campus in the splendid spa town of Harrogate leads the way in breaking down the barriers between business, further and higher education.”
Professor Simon Lee, Vice Chancellor
Accommodation
Accommodation is normally provided on campus at Leeds Metropolitan University, although there are additionally many fine hotels in the city of Leeds and its surroundings.
The University's modern student residences provide over 3,500 places for both UK and international students. Most of the accommodation is en-suite bedrooms in self-catering flats with shared kitchen and bathroom facilities. Some rooms have shared bathroom facilities. Residential Officers live on site to help you settle in and make the most of your time in Leeds.
Contact us for further information of accommodation and costs.
Costs
Courses are offered on the following basis:
Minimum number of delegates per programme: 20
- £1,995 per person one week programme (5 days)
- £2,995 per person two weeks programme (10 days)
- £3,995 per person four weeks programme (20 days)
This includes all delivery of programmes additional resources and tea and coffee. Accommodation costs are not included.
Contact
Corporate Learning Consultants arranges tailored programs of study for experienced managers and professionals. To follow the courses indicated in this fact sheet, or for further information, contact:
Dr Eric Sandelands
E-mail:
Tel: +44 (0)1642 711830
Sample faculty biographies
Nick Beech
TD, MBA, MSc, BA (Hons), PGCE, DipM, MIoD, MCIM, ITLM
Chartered Marketer and National Teacher Fellow
Nick Beech is the Director of postgraduate programmes at the European Centre for Corporate Governance at LMU. He has extensive experience of both teaching and coaching business leadership. He focuses on developing individual and team problem solving capabilities, and devolving power to the lowest possible level in an organisation to empower people to use their initiative and solve practical business problems at the coal face. Prior to joining Leeds Business School he ran his own successful SME with an annual turnover of over £5,000,000 per annum. He also has also gained over 30 year’s leadership experience by working in the reserve forces.
Recently Nick’s dedication to excellence in teaching and learning has won him a prestigious national teaching award worth £50,000. This funding has enabled him to design and develop an online diagnostic tool to help potential governors, executive or non-executive directors to determine their capabilities, provide a governance knowledge bank and devise programmes to support those working in a strategic governance role.
Nick teaches on a wide variety of management courses but mainly focuses on effective boardroom decision-making at postgraduate, professional and tailored in-house programmes. Recent sponsored research studies include: British Army – identifying and quantifying transferable skill profiles of reservists 2002 & 2005 and conducting a regional Management Development Audit providing a diagnostic capabilities profile of 50 regional businesses sponsored by Business Link in 2004.
In addition to being a mountain leader and a black belt instructor in karate he is also a keen orienteer, canoeist and runner.
David W Davies
TD JP MA MSc FRSA
David Davies is active professional man with experience of successful leadership in the armed forces, industry and the public sector. A proven communicator: with a mature understanding of management drawn from experience and study. He was appointed associate professor, University of Maryland, in 2002 and continues to lecture for the university on business leadership. He has led management development initiatives in Yorkshire in mid 1990s first as chairman of Central Yorkshire branch of the Chartered Institute of Management then as a member of National Council.
David planned, launched and led director development programmes for the Institute of Directors whilst short courses manager at the Business School, Leeds Metropolitan University. Continued to lecture on the programme for the next 12 years to retirement in 2003.
He served in the Territorial Army from 1962-1993. Latter appointments included 5 years as officer Commanding a NATO assigned combat engineer squadron of 200 men of the Royal Engineers. This was followed by a staff appointment with 2nd Division NEDIST. David served in Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Northern Ireland. Awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1976 and a Bar in 1982.
David serves as Senior/principal lecturer in Leeds Business School leading courses including Diploma in Management Studies, MBA and Diploma/MA in Company Direction. The strength and quality of his teaching led to early election to membership of newly formed Institute of learning & Teaching in 2000.
He has engaged in consultancy work for clients including industry, commerce, local authorities, MoD, Northern Ireland Office and HM Prison Service. Latterly he held a non-executive directorship with knowledge-based organisation. Prior to joining academia David worked for P A Consultants and Rolls-Royce.
He has been elected Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, was appointed magistrate for North Yorkshire in 1990 and continues to adjudicate in adult criminal courts as a presiding magistrate. He serves as a volunteer Ranger serving with Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, North Yorkshire.
Eric Sandelands
DPhil, MBA, DMS, FCIM, mt
Eric Sandelands founded Corporate Learning Consultants to provide learning and development solutions, and combines client work with lecturing. His clients are primarily in construction industry, oil and gas, publishing and the hospitality sector. He has lectured and supervised graduate and post-graduate work for the University of Wales, University of East London, University of Sunderland, and others. He is a visiting faculty member of Leeds Metropolitan University.
Eric has lived both in the UK and Canada, and his client work involves him travelling with his wife in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In terms of consulting and enterprise he is: Director, The Leadership Alliance, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with UK clients including The Bank of England and The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea; Consultant, Action Learning Partnership, headquartered in Leicester, UK, with clients including Atos Origin; External contributor, Executive Development & Enterprise, University of Durham Business School; Associate of the University of Bradford European Centre for Total Quality Management (ECTQM); Consultant (corporate academies), business writer and editorial advisor for Emerald Publishing Group; and Contributor to the Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, Canada.
Eric initially served as a deck officer in the British Merchant Navy, prior to working in petrochemicals, publishing and academia. While living in Canada his community involvement was primarily in support of his children’s schools, and in promoting youth soccer, serving on various boards. He additionally played soccer for Markdale Nordics in an over 30s league. Since returning to the UK he spends time SCUBA diving, reading, visiting antique fairs and travelling with his wife and children.