Corporate and Management Development Centre
Partnerships with all sectors of the business community are central to Newcaste Business School. As one of the UK's biggest and most respected business schools we offer a full range of services to our client partners from bespoke management education through to consultancy.
This is achieved by working closely with each client organisation to ensure we continue to meet their needs. Indeed our practical and innovative approach to management development and work-based learning has earned national recognition and international respect.
"The course has given me confidence - the ability to stand back and think before I make decisions. Now I make better decisions."
Postgraduate Certificate Course Participant, Northumberland County Council.
In today's complex and rapidly changing business environment, organisations need to be sure that they are developing their people in line with demands - not just today but tomorrow and into the future.
At Newcastle Business School, we have always been committed to inspiring and achieving excellence. This is underpinned by a philosophy of transferring theory into practice, advancing management knowledge and solving real-world business and management problems.
With today's budget constraints, clients find our 'one-stop shop' approach particularly refreshing.
We have the experience and resources to carry out complete projects on your behalf. And of course, our reputation as one of the UK's most respected business schools enables us to offer a full range of learning and development programmes for your staff.
Our core objectives:
- To develop and maintain excellent individual and corporate partnerships,
- To practice and promote the values of trust, equality, diversity and partnership,
- To provide high quality, innovative management and executive education, development and consultancy to meet and exceed client expectations,
- To encourage clients to develop their full potential as effective managers and leaders,
- To develop our clients as critical thinkers and reflective learners through work-based learning,
- To contribute to the development of knowledge and capability through applied research and consultancy with organisations.
"The flexibility of the Newcastle Business School programme together with an understanding of our business needs ensure that both individual and organisational needs continue to be met."
Joanne Tennick, Learning and Development Team, Zurich Financial Services.
We work closely with our client partners to develop bespoke solutions. Each is exclusively designed to ensure that every individual is provided with a complex understanding of the key issues that they face and the knowledge and skills to engage with them effectively.
All our solutions provide applied knowledge and theoretical perspectives whilst also encouraging reflexive skills and critical thinking.
Such is the standard of teaching at Newcastle Business School that we have twice achieved a rating of 'excellence' by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
The School has also been described by the Times Higher Education Supplement as one of the top institutions for the provision of business and management education in the UK today.
The CMDC undertakes the following activities for clients:
- Individual, management and organisational needs analysis
- Design, delivery and evaluation of bespoke individual, corporate and executive development activities
- Design and delivery of bespoke management and executive awards using flexible, workbased approaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
- Coaching - executive, business, individual and team
- Recognition and accreditation of in-company work-based learning
- Development of corporate learning frameworks and products
- Continuing Professional Development
- Provision of learning and educational opportunities to meet individual and organisational needs
- Seminars and workshops
- Management and corporate consultancy and applied research
- Diagnostic services, including individual and team psychometric profiling
- Mentoring
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