Included in the range of services of the DLN we provide the following training courses:

Leadership of the Past and the Future - feel the difference

This workshop recognises that the application of modern management thinking can double productivity/effectiveness. However, rather than provide a lecture on modern leadership, it provides a series of simulations to allow delegates to feel the difference between traditional and modern management. The delegates themselves show how effectiveness can be doubled. (1 day course)

 

Opening our minds to new possibilities

The purpose of the course is to free us from the misconceptions of traditional management and present new concepts that will        secure a greater commitment from staff. It explores the circumstances though which our traditional paradigm of management was

developed. And then recognises that these circumstances have changed radically. We need new thinking to prepare us for the 21st century. (2 day course)

 

Systems Thinking

Gaining knowledge from data - Statistical Process Control

Systems thinking and variation are both key elements in our two main courses. However when the need arises the DLN will be developing specific course to take our understanding of these two areas into greater depth.

 

Guest Speakers

When the opportunity arrives the DLN will invite guest speakers to come to Aberdeen. A case in point was the visit of Bill Bellows of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (was Boeing) from California, USA. He presented the workshop "Modern Leadership - feel the difference." The essence of the workshop was two simulations that allowed the delegates to feel the difference between traditional and Modern leadership. It turned out to be quite startling to witness the difference - how in the first simulation, representing traditional management, poor communication and bottlenecks etc went unaddressed. With the second simulation the team members had free rein to organised themselves. Through seeing the whole and open communication many of the problems were quickly addressed. Productivity was doubled, profit trebled, there was a dynamic morale and there was full scope for innovation- all from a simple change in the basis of control.

 

Evening Workshops

in 2002-4 Dr Tony Miller of RGU  ran the 18 month "Thinking Managers Course" which addressed Deming 14 points to guide us out of the crisis.

in 2005 Tony ran a 9 month course looking at Deming's System of Profound Knowledge

in 2004/5 Dr Peter Troxler of Aberdeen University ran a 9 month course on Knowledge Management

The DLN does not, at present, have plans to run evening workshops in 2006 - though of course this may well change as the year progresses