Leadership Development
Strong, effective leadership is essential for all businesses. And it’s the key to making businesses stronger and more profitable. With effective leadership, your company can manage change, inspire growth, harness opportunity, expand markets and adopt innovative processes, systems and procedures.
And that’s where we can help. We provide key initiatives to help you develop your leadership potential.
Business Mentoring
Learning from the experiences and success of other business leaders is a great way to develop your own capabilities. With the Business Mentoring service, delivered in partnership with Scottish Chambers of Commerce, you’ll get access to invaluable encouragement, insight and guidance from experienced business experts on a one-to-one or group basis.
Business Mentoring provides a practical way of nurturing the potential of business leaders with the ambition to grow. Mentors have a genuine desire to make a difference to businesses – they volunteer their time and are committed to sharing their skills, knowledge, and experiences.
"Business Mentoring is an extremely successful and worthwhile initiative. Companies in all sectors face similar challenges, the most pressing today being the effects of the recession and climate change. It is important that businesses be prepared to support and share knowledge with one another."
- Sir Moir Lockhead, Chief Executive of FirstGroup
Rural Leadership Development Programme
As well as improving your leadership approach, the Rural Leadership Development Programme broadens your awareness of rural policy, demonstrates the benefits of community engagement and provides an insight into the Scottish, UK and European Parliaments, using a range of workshops, case studies and learning journey approaches.
Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service
(SMAS)
The Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service specialises in providing manufacturing firms of all sizes throughout Scotland with expert advice, one-to-one support, training and events on the issue of lean manufacturing including the implications on staff roles, not least top management team. SMAS’s team of experienced industry professionals can help identify ways to deliver real bottom line benefits. Over the last four years, SMAS has delivered over £40 million of value-add to Scottish companies.
Investors in People (IIP)
No matter what business you’re in, your most important asset is your staff. IIP is a business improvement framework that helps leaders understand how they can best support, manage and develop their employees. Evidence shows that successful implementation leads to increased retention, motivation, performance and productivity.
