Management Development Courses
Design of LSHTM Management Development Programme
The LSHTM Management Development Programme has been re-oriented by the Management Development Group to make it clearer what is appropriate at each stage of a person's development, associated with their particular management role. It is designed in 4 stages for:
MDP STAGE 1 First line manager: for clerical and administrative staff (e.g. Unit administrators) and research fellows who supervise or line manage several staff or small teams.
MDP STAGE 2 Middle managers: for lecturers and senior lecturers (in their first few years) who lead/manage research projects and teams, or organise Teaching Units or MSc's; and for administrators who manage people/teams (up to about ALC2/3). Participants will generally have been in a management role for around a year or more.
MDP STAGE 3 Senior managers: for senior lecturers/readers/professors and administrators who have (or are soon to have) significant management responsibilities including Heads of Unit (Academic and Administrative), Heads of Research (or Consultancy) Programmes or Centres, Taught Course Directors, etc.
MDP STAGE 4 Top Management (SMT).
The model that is being developed is to provide a Core workshop programme in-house at Stages 2 and 3, focussing on people management skills, and providing opportunities for follow-up development through specialist workshops, action learning groups, discussion forums, and continuing professional development. Currently, we are offering staff at Stage 1 good courses run externally, while considering what type of training to offer in-house in future years. However, as a pilot this year we are running a course called Management on the Horizon (MOTH) for research staff who may aspire to management roles in the future. If successful, we may make this course available to all School staff in the future.
Experience has shown that it is better to develop and consolidate skills at one stage before going onto the next. For staff who have not had access to management training before, it may be necessary to 'catch up' on skills not developed at a previous stage by going to single workshops focussing on the skill areas in need of development.
Self-awareness and development planning: Staff in management roles can raise their awareness of their skill areas by using a self-assessment tool devised by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), and benchmark them against the National Occupational Standards for Management. Staff at Stages 1 and 2 can use the smart Management Assessment available form the CMI website (see below) and staff at Stage 3 (or who have much of the Stage 2 training) can become members of CMI through the School's Institutional membership - see details below. Choice of workshops and other development opportunities can then be based on areas where the manager has an identified need for development.
The aims of the programme are to:
Stages 1 and 2:
Help supervisors and managers develop competency in the 6 main areas outlined in the National Occupational Standards for Management and Leadership: Managing self and personal skills, Providing direction, Facilitating change, Working with people, Using resources and Achieving results.
Prior to May 2004 the standards were grouped under five headings and the "smart" assessment tool on the CMI website still uses these: managing activities, resources, people, information and yourself. For ease of reference we have continued to use these headings in parts of the programme below.
Stages 3 and 4:
Help managers improve leadership and management practice in the areas of managing people and resources, especially Leadership and Management in an HE Context, Effective People and Performance Management, Managing Change, Delegation, Coaching and Career Management, Equality and Diversity Awareness and Financial Management and further develop skills in Research Team Leadership and Project Management for Research Team Leaders (if appropriate), Strategic Planning and Development, Inter-personal Conflict Management and Negotiation, and Determining Priorities and Managing Time.
