Throughout the course, you will hear from leading industry experts, network with a variety of business leaders and work with other delegates to apply core aspects of the course to your organisation.

During your time on this course, you will gain several stand-out learning experiences, including:

Applied Learning – A learning environment created by the course facilitator that draws on the experience and input of your course peers.

Knowledge Transfer – A steady stream of feedback from participating peers with diverse business backgrounds to help build your leadership skills.

Reflection – A rare time-out to contemplate your own leadership capabilities and challenges while engaging with our world-class faculty.

Network Expansion – An expanding professional network drawn from your peers.

Personal Growth – An expanding self-awareness of your own leadership competencies and how they can be honed.

Behavioural Change – An adoption of new rationales and mindsets that improve your managerial skills.

• Cultivate a strategic mindset allowing you to identify which metrics to measure to start improving productivity
• Develop a clearer understanding of why productivity matters and how it can positively impact your business
• Align your businesses productivity processes with wider strategic goals, and learn how to make tactical day-to-day decisions to achieve them
• Understand the social and ESG impact of investing in your business’s infrastructure
• Build a strong professional network of industry experts, opening doors to future collaboration and mentorship

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• Explore practicable, actionable productivity strategies that can be tailored to your specific organisational challenges
• Discover the key factors contributing to your organisation competing effectively in a UK and international business market 
• Gain insights into how productivity directly impacts your organisation’s bottom line, KPIs and industry benchmarks
• Implement ideas which future proof your organisation by prioritising adaptability and proactivity
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement within your organisation, which focuses on operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness

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This course is for senior leaders from businesses with a staff base of 250+ who are engaged with the strategic decisions, performance management, and operational activity of their organisation. 

Delegates are welcomed from a broad variety of industries, ranging from construction to retail, as well as international leaders travelling to Manchester from overseas.

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Bart Van Ark is a Professor of Productivity Studies at Alliance Manchester Business School and is also the Managing Director of The Productivity Institute, a UK-wide organisation which aims to lay the foundations for an era of sustained and inclusive productivity growth, by bringing together academic research, policy studies and business engagement.

Between 2008 and 2022 Bart was Chief Economist at The Conference Board, a global business research organisations headquartered in New York, where he worked with dozens of global companies on business strategy related to (global) economic trends, labour markets and human capital, technology and innovation, and productivity

Bart is an internationally acclaimed economist in the field of international comparative productivity measurement and his research has cut across the areas of economic growth, international economics and business, development economics and economic history.

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