Smart Buyer: leadership training

Welcome to the Smart Buyer guide on leadership training, providing the latest top tips, case studies and expert guidance.

Leadership training and development courses can be expensive and may be critical to the future success of the employing organisation.

Leadership training

Leadership training overview
You cannot plan leadership development without having reasonable understanding of the senior team’s plans for your organisation.

Supplier selection
Ten top tips for initial supplier selection.

Selecting delegates
Leadership development delegates should be nominated by senior or board level management – insist on evidence that these nominees have leadership potential.

Course content
We discuss what the course components should consist of and consider appropriate accreditation.

Essential leadership skills: Building your team
Gavin Patterson, Chief Executive at BT Retail explains why your first priority is to build a strong team.

The five pillars of leadership
The strategic leadership of your enterprise can be divided into five main areas. Get these right, says Martin Baker, MD of leadership and management online learning specialist LMMatters, and you’re on the path to success.

TRAINING

• Training overview
• Four step guide to planning your training, learning and development
• Supplier selection
• Payment, ownership and major UK suppliers
• How to get staff buy-in for training
• How to tell if training was effective and well delivered
• Face-to-face or e-learning?
• Getting performance management to work for you (VIDEO)
• Managing people’s performance – fact or fiction?
• Case study: Working Sm@rt at Pepsi QTG

E-LEARNING

• E-learning overview
• Reasons to implement e-learning
• Supplier selection
• Training content
• Mobile training
• Case study: Online training creation for professional bodies
• A new perspective on e-learning: online learning that works

MANAGEMENT TRAINING

• Overview
• Supplier selection
• The course – delegates and content
• The cost
• A question of evidence: behaviour-based interviews (VIDEO)
• Making appraisals work

SALES TRAINING

• Overview
• Types of sales training
• Supplier selection
• The cost
• Ensuring training success

IT TRAINING

• Overview
• Supplier selection
• Potential e-learning issues
• John Lewis case study
• The cost