Benefits of using Management Futures

For a start we don’t use ordinary trainers – we use highly experienced consultants who see the people in front of them as part of an organisation. We only employ skilled organisational development consultants.

Whatever your need, we have people who can bring the right skills and experience to work for you. We have developed large groups of leaders in organisations as diverse as the BBC, the Post Office, Lafarge, the Department for Work and Pensions, Highland and Islands Enterprise, Queen Mary Sidcup Hospital Trust, the Ambulance Service, county councils

We don’t believe in cloning: our consultants come from a wide range of backgrounds and have experience in many parts of both the public and private sectors. They have worked in small, medium, large and mulitnational organisations.
Above all we aim to get to the heart of the matter: and we won’t offer you a sticking plaster which will fall off after a couple of weeks.

Our approach to Leadership

For us the core question is: 'How do you do leadership?' It is fine to study leadership theories: to compare and contrast leadership and management; to discuss whether leadership is a role or a process. But if an organisation is to be its best, it needs people to behave as leaders, to be leaders and to what the situation requires.

At Management Futures, we have met many organisations have invested time and money in promoting the principles of leadership and management development. Sometimes, the results have been disappointing with little change taking place.

Our approach does not ignore the theory, but asks what you need in practice to be a great leader. To put it another way, if we were to film a documentary of you as a leader, what would we see you doing and hear you saying? And what would it feel like being led by you?

We believe that almost everyone has the potential to lead, but many are held back by upbringing, limiting personal beliefs, poorly developed skills or a lack of connection to their own personal values.

Often people who should be playing a leadership role

• act against what they believe to be right
• blame the environment or the organisation for their own behaviour
• busks vitally important meetings, conversations or presentations
• short-change themselves on their own development

So, to develop as a leader, we at Management Futures believe that all of us can benefit by

• identifying what we stand for and what is important to us - and then beginning to act in line with those values
• surfacing those beliefs which hold us back and prevent us being authentically ourselves
• learning and developing a set of top quality personal skills and attributes
• having the emotional intelligence to know how we are perceived and to know our own strengths and weaknesses.