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Continuing Professional Development sessions

Making sense of leadership and coaching - Professor Jackie Ford

We continue to witness a surge of interest in leadership, leadership development and executive coaching and yet comparatively little time is spent to explore the impact of this on our working lives. This session seeks to explore and make sense of contemporary accounts through drawing on research evidence and leadership practice.

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Managing Innovation in a Nutshell - Dr Nigel Lockett

Why is innovation important and yet so difficult to get right? Nigel's session will consider the innovation process of idea generation, opportunity recognition and exploitation in enterprises. Innovative thinking is a key skill for a successful manager. During the workshop, participants will consider recent cases and engage in practical exercises.

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Success Factors in Organizational Learning and Change - Dr David Spicer

The session will review David's recent research looking at the relationship between organizational learning, change and performance and will consider the implications for this in practice. The focus will be on drawing out the practical application of the principles evidenced through the research findings

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The Nature of 'Engaging Leadership' and its Effect on Productivity, Morale and Well-being - Professor Beverly Alimo Metcalf

In this session we shall look at the reason why employee engagement is so critical to organizations and Beverly's original research into the nature of engaging leadership, and her more recent longitudinal study which found evidence of its causal relationship to productivity, morale, and well-being in teams. She will also describe how she and colleagues have applied this and related research to major cultural transformation projects in large organizations.

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Marketing: Through the recession and beyond - Julian Rawel

This very practical session will explore how managers should have adapted their marketing to the pressures of the recession and how, as we see the first green shoots of sustainable recovery, they should build on the recession experience to create winning marketing strategies in the new age of realism (or is that austerity?).

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Valuing intergenerational sustainability and energy projects - Professor Mark Freeman

The session will review Mark's recent research looking at how net present value techniques can be applied to intergenerational projects. This is of direct to relevance to managers involved in evaluating the economic attractiveness of the proposed new generation of nuclear power stations and those undertaking long term environmental sustainability projects. It also addresses some of the most pressing problems facing policy makers who must decide on the urgency of implementing carbon dioxide emissions abatement programmes in response to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

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Business Models for a Sustainable Future - Professor Kevin Barber and Dr Roger Beach

In this Session Roger and Kevin will facilitate an open debate about the environmental challenges facing businesses, the impact of government policies, how different businesses may adapt to meet the challenges of the next forty years, and the role of Business Schools in supporting the changes.

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