The Individual Professional Development Programme is a three-stage programme designed to allow organisations and individual professionals, at all levels of their careers to, design a bespoke, tailored and personalised continuous professional development programme.

Organisations and individuals can elect to complete all three stages, or individual stages, on a full time, part time or extended basis.

Stage One is focused on a series of best international best practice professional, transferable and soft skills topics, across areas such as interpersonal skills, communications, teamwork, problem-solving, critical thinking, decision-making, time and stress management and negotiation and conflict management.

Stage Two is focused on a building an intermediate level toolkit centred around a series of leadership and management options, of which participants are encouraged to take three from a list of six. These include leadership, management, project management, coaching and mentoring, people and talent and operations management.

Stage Three is focuses on both advanced level and / or specialist professional areas, with participants encouraged to take two from a list of five. Topics include strategic and operational resilience, financial management for non-financial specialists, leading and managing high performance cultures and organisational excellence and commercial management.

The Individual Professional Development Programme is suitable for professionals across all career levels, from fresh graduates seeking to develop a broad, best practice portfolio of professional skills which will add value to their careers and employability; to senior level and experienced leaders, managers and professionals looking to refresh or upskill.

There are three main course objectives.

The first is to allow professionals to design a personalised professional development programme which allows them to enhance their professional competencies, skills, allow them to make an enhanced contribution to organisational and professional operations, and enhance and enrich their professional lives, employability and perhaps promotion prospects.

Secondly, to develop best practice, leading edge competencies, knowledge, skills and attributes which will allow them to lead, drive and contribute to enhance organisational and operational performance, productivity, competitive advantage and rounded organisational excellence.

Thirdly, to allow professionals to develop higher and advanced level specialist professional competencies, knowledge, skills and attributes.

By the end of this programme and course you will:

• Have a developed a broad portfolio of professional, transferable competencies, skills, knowledge and attributes.
• Be able to apply and demonstrate your new and refreshed competencies, skills, knowledge and attributes to successfully lead, drive and contribute towards enhanced and empowered a organisational and individual performance, productivity, high-performance cultures and rounded organisational excellence.

• Developed transferable, specialist and advanced / higher level professional competencies, skills, knowledge and attributes.

• Enhanced your

• • Professional competencies, skills, knowledge and attributes.
  • Promotion prospects.
  • Employability prospects.

Key topics explored include:

Stage One

• Interpersonal skills
• Business communications
• Teamwork
• Problem-solving
• Critical thinking
• Decision-making
• Time and stress management
• Negotiation skills and conflict management.

Stage Two

• Leadership and Management
• Business Administraton and Management
• Project management
• Coaching and mentoring
• People and talent
• operations management.

Stage Three

• Strategic and operational resilience
• Financial management for non-financial specialists
• Leading and managing high performance cultures and organisational excellence
• Commercial management.

You will walk away with:

• The specialist leading-edge knowledge, skills, competencies and confidence to be able to author, build, develop, drive and lead high-performance, high-impact strategic, tactical and operational organisational and business resilience, crisis and risk management agendas and initiatives in response to local, national and global volatility, disruption and threats.

• The ability to make a real, high-performance impact on your organisation and business
• Specialist and transferable professional skills
• Enhanced career and promotion prospects
• Continuous professional development credits
• A personalised leadership action plan, which in conjunction with the course, critical personal reflection and ongoing professional development will allow you to further develop and put into practice what you have learnt.

• Access to our leadership library of resources
• Either a professional award, a professional certificate or an advanced professional certificate.

We strongly recommend that in preparation for this course, participants take the time to complete the pre-course work; both so that they reap the fullest rewards and benefits of the courses, and so that it can be tailored and personalised where possible to their individual requirements.

• Think about what your learning priorities and objectives are
• Think about a possible organisational, operational or personal role topic, issue, challenge or objective you have a special interest in for discussion in coaching, supervision / tutorials
• Think about what real-world organisational, operational or professional role strategic, transformational and resilience objectives you have
• Think about what real-world organisational and business disruption, issues and challenges you face
• Think about how you can use the current climate as a catalyst for change.

The investment fee encompasses:

• Face to face contact learning via webinar, online and collaborative technology
• A minimum number of whole class contact hours per days / week / month – subject to programme and course duration selected
• Micro group sessions – depending upon participant numbers and webinar / programme / course duration
• Individual / pair / micro group supervisions / coaching / personal and operational consulting and action planning – depending upon participant numbers and webinar / programme / course duration
• Core course materials – send by email and online
• Supplementary materials – send by email and online
• Complimentary materials – materials – send by email and online
• Access to documents and resources library for the webinar / programme / course duration
• Certificate