YCChange, in partnership with Partners in Management, are offering FREE TASTER SESSIONS of their management development programmes to help organisations understand the benefits to them during these difficult times in the public sector.
The FREE SESSIONS will take place on 15th July at the Media Centre, Huddersfield, HD1 1RL. You have the choice of the morning (9.30-12.30) or the afternoon (1.30 – 4.30). The session will help public sector managers think about the issues that are ahead of them. To book your place
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Rightly or wrongly we are facing what is possibly the greatest squeeze on public sector funding ever seen. We face a decade at least of continuous challenge, having to deliver more with less whilst world-wide economies struggle to overcome the burden of debt they now carry. The threat of the collapse of the Euro and a second round of associated banking failures carries with it the prospect of further tightening of funding coupled to a probable increased demand for public sector services at the same time. So given this potential ‘perfect storm’ scenario – how will you survive?
What is obviously apparent is that the target driven managerial mindsets that have developed over the last decades will not be the ones that inspire and support successful innovation and change in the years to come. So how will these skills and attitude changes take place?
First of all – lets ‘unfreeze’ the situation and recognise openly and honestly some of the personnel issues we face:
Are you really challenging yourselves objectively about how you’re going to prioritise what you deliver and how, where and who to at what cost? Or are you waiting for someone else to do it for you?
Do you really have the right skills, and just as importantly attitudes, in-house to deliver transformational change now and in the future? Can your staff think innovatively about how to gain efficiencies whilst also improving performance?
Is there an existing culture that delivers real effective change or just implements efficiency plans? How will you develop one quickly if not?
How will you and your teams manage to deliver the service whilst also implementing change? What additional resources can you free up?
How are your staff going to cope with doing more with less? Do they just work harder or smarter too?
Have you coaching, developmental or support programmes in place to make sure that your staff can cope and remain highly motivated through these difficult times?
Restructures, redeployment and redundancies are bound to happen - are your staff well placed to put their best foot forward into new roles?
Are you really supporting your exiting staff to find new jobs, new skills and make the most of the new opportunities they face?
With a greater emphasis on communities managing assets and services are you geared up to support this to happen?
Social enterprises may well take on your current roles and services – have you the skills or willingness to set up, lead and deliver one instead?
Have you the skills to strengthen existing partnerships and work collaboratively to ensure that funds are pooled to deliver priorities at the local level?
If none of the above cause you any issues then fantastic! However, we suspect they might.
So what can be done to help? Through our partnership with Partners in Management, a Chartered Management Institute (CMI) accredited Level 7 centre, we can offer highly focussed, practical staff development solutions that are centred on managing sustainable innovation and managing personal change through self-coaching. The emphasis is now not on primarily using external consultants to deliver change but developing the skills and attitudes necessary in-house instead and enabling you and your staff to take ownership and deliver results. Not only are the programmes available highly cost and time effective, they focus on practical real live work problems and issues thereby delivering instant results and return on investment. They also allow participants to gain an accredited qualification, from a level 3 in Coaching and Mentoring right through to a level 7 (postgraduate) Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership. Given the current highly competitive job market and the fact that only one manager in four has an accredited qualification – you might even get your staff to contribute to the cost…..
In addition to longer more wide-ranging management development programmes offered, there are two, two day short courses in particular that are of great benefit here.
The RIDFEAR® ‘Coach Yourself through Change’ - A personal development programme that facilitates both continuing and departing staff members to understand themselves more fully, come to an accommodation over current circumstances and develop the inspiration and fortitude to make a success out of the new situations facing them. This programme has been used extensively in organisations for staff facing redeployment and redundancy – both voluntary and enforced. (Can lead to the CMI Level 5 Award in Management Coaching & Mentoring)
The PIECHART ‘Change and Innovation Management Methodology’ – A highly practical work-based programme that is designed to enable participants to develop the skills necessary to manage inn ovation more successfully and consistently. This programme is perfect for getting a team to work together on a joint problem(s) and gaining commitment to deliver. (Can lead to the CMI Level 6 Award in Management & Leadership)
Both programmes can be delivered on site to suit your needs on times, locations and issues. When a further option to include 2 days on leading effective change is introduced this leads to CMI Level 6 Certificate in Management & Leadership upon satisfactory completion.
For more information contact Yvonne Castle –
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