Course: Advanced Management Programme

It's your programme designed around your needs, your diary, your focus

This modular management course equips you for general management and leadership responsibilities with the broadest toolkit there is.

The Ashridge Advanced Management Programme will enable you to:

• Gain the full toolkit you need to prepare you for all round leadership positions
• Extend your expertise in all operational parts of your job - working with people, driving growth and innovation, executing and delivering results
• Deepen your understanding of strategy and finance and improve your commercial skills
• Work out how to grow the organisation, bring innovation to life, and turn customer focus into a real business advantage
• Build your own leadership approach, with improved self-understanding
• Test yourself against high standards and build practical skills that will make you more effective in your daily job.

Who is this advanced management course for?

You are likely to be:

• a high potential mid-level manager who is new to general management
• a senior functional or technical specialist in transition to general management
• a country manager or business unit head
• managing a large/complex project across teams, functions or borders.

Programme Overview

For over fifty years, managers from the private and public sectors across the world have accelerated their career progression with the support of Ashridge's Advanced Management Programme (AMP):

• The AMP's modular design is flexible which allows you to schedule the 16 - 25 days' participation to fit your diary and you have up to two years to complete your AMP.
• It is also personal: meaning that you can choose modules in areas where you need most development with the support of your Programme Coach
• You also have access to the programme's Virtual Learning Portal for the duration of your programme participation and for 12 months after that.

Please call our Programme Advisors for an informal chat about which development path might work best for you.

Benefits to you and your organisation

You will leave the programme better equipped, more confident, with a better knowledge of what you can do, and a greater appetite for pushing the limits. The programme will provide you with all the tools, theory and techniques and opportunities to try them out.

Ashridge Executive Masters in Management

On completion of the AMP you can continue your learning by studying for the Ashridge Executive Masters in Management qualification at no extra cost.

Building your Advanced Management Programme

The Advanced Management Programme (AMP) is delivered in a multi-modular format, offering you the opportunity to undertake substantial personal development that can be fitted to your personal needs and time available. This makes the AMP more relevant than ever for time pressed managers looking to raise their all-round performance and accelerate their progression.

Choose your focus - you may select from a range of modules depending on which areas you want to develop including at least one module from each of the four competency areas in the diagram below.

Choose your dates - you can easily fit the programme into your diary with a wide selection of dates for our easy-to-schedule short modules.

Choose your pace - we understand that work pressures may kick in, so you have up to two years to complete the programme.

Every module of the Advanced Management Programme, shown in the diagram above, is targeted at key skills, knowledge and developmental priorities in the four competency areas which our experience tells us are key to success for people in business leadership positions:

Setting direction - four modules covering strategy and finance.

Providing leadership - three modules covering all aspects of leadership.

Making the most of people - four modules covering people leadership, performance management, influencing skills and personal impact.

Driving growth and realising results - four modules covering innovation, marketing, organisation growth, strategy execution and change management.