...a country where managers in all sectors have both the ambition and the ability to create businesses and organisations which are among the best in the UK.
We aim to inspire, motivate and drive change in the perception, delivery, take-up and funding of management and leadership development in Wales.
That strategy will seek to:
The Wales Management Council comprises some of the country's most senior figures from the public and private sectors.
We exist because the quality of management and leadership in Wales will have a direct impact upon our future growth, productivity and performance.
The demands on managers are growing, and organisations have to ensure that their executives have sufficient management and leadership skills to compete at the highest level.
Therefore businesses in Wales are demanding training and development of the highest quality, relevance, and accessibility.
The Wales Management Council aims to take the lead in the development of a national strategy and action plan to tackle these needs effectively.
In promoting this strategy we will work closely with partners such as, bodies representing business and managers themselves.
Through well-targeted and sustained communication, we aim to help change attitudes and build greater awareness of Wales' need to develop the full potential of its managers.
Using robust research we aim both to stimulate new thinking and to highlight exactly how and where Wales needs to improve its management development provision.
By joint-working with partners we aim to help bring about the necessary change and to spread best practice throughout the economy.
In addition to our role as champion of the cause of better management and leadership, we aim to assist organisations and individual managers directly, by:
We will pioneer targets for improvement in management capability and performance and measure progress against credible UK benchmarks.
Our ultimate benchmark is a major increase in the efficiency and profitability of businesses and organisations, leading to significant economic growth for Wales.
If you're a manager in a business with a future, or you aspire to a management role, then you'll be faced with a constant need to adapt, improve and acquire new skills.
The Wales Management Council works with partners to ensure Wales has the training and development infrastructure to support individuals and businesses in their quest for excellence.
While endorsing formal qualifications such as MBAs (and other recognised qualifications) the WMC places special emphasis on building competence which has a direct impact on day to day performance.
We also put high priority on promoting methods of training which fit in with the needs of industry and individual managers.
Working with the Welsh Assembly Government's DCELLS (Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills) and DET (Department for Enterprise and Transport), the Chartered Management Institute and the Institute of Leadership and Management, we aim to broaden the options available to managers and management teams needing to raise their skills.
Learning in the workplace, on-line learning and other innovative methods of acquiring new management skills are high on our agenda.
Our top priority is that the management development support available in Wales should match the highest standards available in the UK or internationally.
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