SPECIAL PROGRAMME FOR P2M TRAINING
Run by: Lille Graduate School of Management in France and the Project Management Professional Certification Centre in Japan.
Cost and length: Free, by invitation, four days.
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Aimed at: Business managers and postgraduate business/management students.
What you learn: Members of the Japanese Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry, and experts from Japanese companies and schools will focus on a new Japanese model called P2M (project and programme management). For the first time outside Japan, participants will be able to pass the primary level certificate.
Course organiser’s comment: “Japanese organisations have undertaken significant efforts to move from hierarchical structures to more flexible and contextual structures. The new business model reflects this move and the quest for rejuvenating the Japanese economy.”
Professor Christophe Bredillet, Lille Graduate School of Management
Next course: July 18-21.
Details: c.bredillet@esc-lille.fr
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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION AND CHANGE
Run by: Nottingham Business School and Trans4mation.
Cost and length: £1,800 + VAT (incl. meals and two nights’ accommodation), two full days.
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Aimed at: senior managers leading an organisation, function or department.
What you learn: To realise who you really are, why you do the things you do, and why you do them the way you do. The programme will help you to turn this awareness into practical action to make the best of your leadership potential.
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Course director’s comment: “If you are to be the best leaders you can be you need to look deeply into yourself. This programme has been designed to help leaders to become aware of their blind spots, therefore making them more open to innovation and new possibilities to resolve longstanding organisational challenges.” Dr Mike Bagshaw, development director
Next course: September 25-27
Details: www.trans4mation.com/programme
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