FEthink's Middle Leadership Programme

Module 1 – From Data to Decision-Making               

Most managers receive data; few turn it into intelligence. Participants learn how to build an executive dashboard that brings together learner performance, curriculum, staffing and quality indicators into a single decision-making tool. By the end of the module, every delegate will have designed and tested a bespoke dashboard that supports faster, evidence-informed leadership decisions.

Half-Day

Module 2 - Stronger Performance Management  

Great managers don't avoid difficult conversations - they know how to make them productive. Participants learn how to tackle underperformance, use coaching and create greater accountability without damaging relationships. Delegates practise these conversations in our unique AI-Rehearsal lab before applying them in real-time with our team of professional actors. Every delegate works on a real people-management challenge and measures the difference their intervention makes.

Full-Day   

Module 3 – The Quality Question                                   

Exceptional leaders know which problems deserve their attention, and which don't. This module develops managerial judgement: distinguishing symptoms from causes, identifying the few improvements that will have the greatest organisational impact and leading change with confidence. Delegates investigate a live organisational issue, use AI diagnostics to consider options and present an evidence-based improvement strategy.

Full-Day

Module 4 – The 5 Rules of Curriculum Design           

A good curriculum reflects the needs of learners, employers and the communities it serves. Participants learn how to review and redesign a curriculum so it is ambitious, inclusive, sustainable, digitally relevant and responsive to local employment needs. This is an online module. Each manager completes a strategic review of one curriculum area and identifies priorities for future development.

Half-Day

Module 5 – Managing People the Right Way                  

Successful leadership is about getting the best from people while protecting wellbeing and maintaining high standards. Participants learn how to motivate staff, manage workload, develop resilience and build individual capability through coaching and mentoring. Delegates also explore how AI technologies can support these goals. Reverse mentoring and leadership profiling help every manager understand how their own behaviour influences team performance. 

Half-Day

Module 6 – Creating Teams that Thrive                          

Strong teams are built deliberately, not by chance. Participants learn how to build professionalism and high performance by increasing trust, shared ownership and constructive challenge within their teams. They leave with a practical team development plan designed to improve standards, collaboration and motivation. 

Half-Day

Module 7 – Strategic Curriculum Health Review         

Participants complete a senior-level review of a live curriculum area, bringing together performance data, AI analytics, learner and staff insight, local skills needs and financial considerations. Using AI and traditional methods, they analyse data trends, make predictions, diagnose gaps and identify risks and new opportunities, and then present the outcomes in a board-like report to a panel of senior managers.  

Full-Day

Looking for something more targeted?

Book one of our mini-programmes to suit your organisational context.

• Three full-day management modules
• Leadership profiling
• Mentoring (1 x 45 minute session)
• Professional development planning
• Baseline and end-of programme evaluation surveys
• Leadership toolkit
• Excellent value for money

Up to 20 delegates | in-person | £11,650.00 (£582pp)

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