Development Programmes are all built according to the specific needs of a business and the individuals in it. Programmes are broken down into four major content areas to help design and development. Here are some of the factors to consider on:

The Wider Context

Ultimately the leader is there to ensure the business is successful in all its goals and aspirations. This includes obvious elements, such as profitability and cost containment, but can also extend to community and wider issues.

Leaders and managers need to work in the wider picture of the organisation and market place. Programme content here will be strongly driven by your own business.

A useful way of starting to examine this area is to consider the business as a system , which is part of a wider system. In this way you start to look at the inter-relatedness of all the parts and consider how much you control to maximise its value to you.

Thinking in this way, you naturally move on to some of the key parts of the system; suppliers to your business, and how you manage them; customers and how you meet their needs, retain good clients and grow your base; the wider market in which your business exists, with its competitors, partners and regulations.

In the modern business world comes the area of change, a constant nowadays. Management of change and the power to change your business positively is underpinned by all other programme areas, but is of enough importance to require attention in its own right.

>Finally there are all those areas which are specific to your business, market and people. For these, then new content will be identified and developed in conjunction with you.

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