Growing Senior Managers Programme

Growing Senior Managers is designed to enable Senior Managers and Directors to transition from running a small team or unit to being more forward- and outward-looking leaders. It focuses on people’s ability to lead several teams or a whole function to achieve anticipated standards and results.

The course is a comprehensive programme of training and support built around the needs and challenges of the individuals involved. It will deliver a memorable learning experience and refresh participants’ passion for growing and developing as leaders. The focus will be on improving and progressing their part of the business through its people, enabling them to progress in their role or take on new responsibilities.

Growing Senior Managers Course Overview

Specific Aims: Participants will be better able to –

  • Develop the confidence to use their skills and knowledge gained to realise their potential in a senior management role
  • Manage their areas with more freedom and autonomy
  • Reduce the frequency of support required to perform their role
  • Proactively take action where required
  • Work together as a team more frequently and build their areas collectively
  • Give each other constructive, honest and sometimes uncomfortable feedback

The course will take a workshop approach, combining input, group discussion exercises, and in-depth reviews. Business-focused projects will provide an opportunity to apply learning quickly to real situations that deliver real results.
As the programme has one residential night, delegates will be able to share ideas, challenge thinking, and learn from each other. This is also a time to reflect on what you have covered in the course, get feedback and cultivate supportive relationships.

Part 1 – Showing Leadership – 7th & 8th October 2025

  • Using vision to clarify direction and purpose
  • Management v. Leadership – Leadership pipeline
  • Creating the desired culture in the business
  • Understanding and working with your own strengths and weaknesses
  • Developing Emotional Intelligence
  • Leadership qualities – Being authentic
  • Giving and receiving Feedback
  • Appropriate leadership behaviours – Power Base
  • Developing effective teams
  • Creating collaboration between teams
  • Behaviour in keeping with the values and desired culture

Part 3 – Working Through People – 3rd and 4th March 2026

  • Recruiting process – do’s and don’ts
  • Inducting new people effectively
  • Developing standards and competences
  • Methods of developing the people you need
  • Motivating people
  • Setting people challenging goals
  • Assessing performance – reviews and appraisals
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Dealing with conflict
  • Managing stress
  • Handling difficult conversations
  • Understanding the accountabilities of their role
  • Empowering people and delegating responsibility – giving autonomy

 

Part 2 – Making Things Happen – 20th & 21st January 2026

  • Problem solving
  • Finding process issues and opportunities for improvement
  • Improving processes with Lean Management
  • Project Management
  • Communicating with impact
  • Engaging people and stimulating ideas
  • Optimise communication processes
  • Questioning, challenging, and being curious about other possibilities
  • Introducing marketing and setting strategies
  • Influence and persuasion
  • Consultative decision making

 

Part 4 – Using Financial Information – 9th & 10th June 2026

  • Running a Computer-Generated Business Simulation
  • Making sense of management accounts
  • Income and expenditure
  • Controlling cost
  • Profit and loss
  • Forecasting
  • Creating and working to budgets
  • Assessing investment options
  • Managing cash flow
  • Making a financial case

We are now booking places on our next course. If you want to know more or discuss reserving a place, call us and ask for Lindsay or Becky or email info@cedarassociates.co.uk. We will be happy to ensure that this course is a good decision for you or your key people.

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What Our Customers Say

“Excellent trainer – easy to follow, varied the pace to suit the group and willing to expand on topics if required.”

“Very well organised, very enjoyable, looking forward to module two…”

“Really motivating.”

“A fantastic course filled with lots I can take back to my role and use with my team.”

“It was great to interact and get stuck in as a team.”

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