Executive Master Classes

Our Master Classes are designed for the ambitious Executives and Senior Managers who want to lead tomorrow's businesses.

The Master Classes are designed to:

  • Develop your leadership capability and potential to lead an organisation
  • Increase your ability to develop strategic direction for your organisation
  • Equip you with the tools and skills to inspire and motivate teams to achieve organisational success
  • Demonstrate how to lead effectively through change and manage and understand the political world in which you operate
  • Enable you to learn first hand through the knowledge and experience of resident Chief Executives
  • Provide you with methods and time to reflect on your own personal development plan in order to achieve your goal
  • Ultimately prepare you for the role of Chief Executive

    The Master Classes offer excellent opportunities for networking and joining a community of practice.

Below is an outline of the final two day session held in our 2011 Public Sector Master Class series, which was being run in conjunction with Ipswich Borough Council:

Organisational Development

Thursday 12 May 2011 (at BT, Adastral Park)

Welcome and introductions
Mike Saks, Provost, UCS and Russell Williams, CEO, Ipswich Borough Council 

Shaping an organisation to meet current demands – the BT story (to include exercises to relate to your organisation)
Phil Dance, Managing Director, BT Adastral Park and Phil Lennard, Director, Education Outreach, BT

Public/private partnerships 
Deborah Cadman, Chief Executive, EEDA

What’s next – a look to the future
Andrea Hill, Chief Executive, Suffolk County Council

Dinner (at Milsoms, Kesgrave Hall)

Friday 13 May 2011 (at Bruizer, Rendlesham)

Media training
BBC journalists and camera crew

How to form favourable public opinion
BBC journalists  

Case study: Fronting the media on a high profile murder enquiry 
Stewart Gull, Chief Superintendent, Suffolk Police

The challenges, value and future of multi-agency working
Alan Caton, Detective Superintendent, Suffolk Police

Summary and close
Mike Saks, Provost, UCS and Russell Williams, CEO, Ipswich Borough Council 

 

Contact

To book onto a Masterclass or for more details of future planned sessions please contact:

Sarah Waller, Research and Enterprise Manager, UCS at sarah.waller@ucs.ac.uk| or telephone 01473 338613

Alternatively, you can use our online booking form|