Scheduled In-house

Leadership & Strategy Training Courses

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  • Next: 15-19 Jul 2024 Classroom

The 5-day Comprehensive Management Summer School

Summer school

Classroom

This interactive Summer School has been designed for professionals who want to learn how to deal more positively with situations to achieve greater success by enhancing their leadership skills through adopting a compassionate approach, as well as learning new techniques to manage across the generational spectrum.

  • 30 CPD hours Intensive
  • Presented by Claire Mould
  • + 3 more
  • Next: 4-5 Jul 2024 Live online
  • Also: 18-19 Nov 2024 Live online

Agile Leadership for Pharma and Biopharma Professionals in a hybrid world

Live online

This comprehensive two-day course will introduce you to the core concepts of what makes an excellent leader - in the context of the pharmaceutical industry - and how to apply the different skills of leading your staff and team to maximise results

  • 12 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Dr Laura Brown
  • Next: 5 Jun 2024 Live online
  • Also: 19 Sep 2024 Live online

Change Management for In-house Lawyers

New for 2024

Live online

Proactively managing change can be challenging and sometimes complicated. This highly focussed course will give you the latest best practice tools and techniques you need to have alongside your legal knowledge and skills in order to succeed.

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Helene Russell
  • Next: 19 Jul 2024 Classroom
  • Also: 16-17 Oct 2024 Live online

Compassionate Leadership and Successful, Sustainable Organisational Growth

New for 2024

Live online, Classroom

This programme will explain the direct link between compassionate leadership and successful, sustainable organisational growth. The session will detail the key components of compassionate leadership and how this can be achieved in practice.

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Claire Mould
  • Next: 18 Jul 2024 Classroom
  • Also: 25-26 Nov 2024 Live online

Ensuring Sustainability and Growth by Placing People at the Centre of the Triangulation of Policy, Process & Practice

New for 2024

Live online, Classroom

This programme will provide a clear understanding of the independent yet interdependent nature of Policy, Processes, and Practice. Focusing on the importance of putting people at the centre of this triangulation.

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Claire Mould
  • Next: 17 Jul 2024 Classroom
  • Also: 11-12 Nov 2024 Live online

Establishing and Nurturing Emotionally Intelligent Teams and Workplaces

New for 2024

Live online, Classroom

This programme will discuss what an emotionally intelligent team is, and how this differs from a team that is just functioning (and definitely an underperforming or dysfunctional team). It will outline how establishing and nurturing an emotionally intelligent team will enhance the productivity and effectiveness of the team, and therefore the organisation as a whole.

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Claire Mould
  • Next: 16-19 Jul 2024 Classroom

The Leadership and Management Summer School

Summer school

Classroom

This highly interactive 4-day leadership summer school is designed to give aspiring leaders the opportunity to enhance existing skills, explore current trends and thinking, and ensure sustainability and growth by adopting a compassionate approach to leadership.

  • 24 CPD hours Intensive
  • Presented by Claire Mould
  • + 2 more
  • Next: 29 Jul-2 Aug 2024 Live online

The Leadership and Management Summer School for Pharma Professionals

Summer school

Live online

Working in the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, with ever-increasing change and pressure, is probably one of the most challenging managerial roles of any industry today. This 5-day Summer School has been especially designed to help you transcend these challenges by training you to become equipped to see the bigger picture in all aspects of your role.

  • 30 CPD hours Intensive
  • Presented by Dr Laura Brown
  • + 3 more
  • Next: 25-26 Apr 2024 Live online
  • Also: 3-4 Oct 2024 Live online

MBA Strategic Thinking for Pharma and Biopharma Professionals

Live online

Working in the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, with ever-increasing change and pressure, is probably one of the most challenging managerial roles of any industry today.

  • 12 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Dr Laura Brown
  • Next: 15-17 May 2024 Live online
  • Also: 31 Jul-2 Aug 2024 Live online
  • Also: 6-8 Nov 2024 Live online

The Pharma Mini MBA

Live online

A three-day accelerated management programme to give you the high-performance management skills of an MBA, designed specifically for pharmaceutical/biotechnology professionals and also applicable to medical device/animal health industries

  • 18 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Dr Laura Brown
  • + 2 more
  • Next: 16 Jul 2024 Classroom
  • Also: 18-19 Nov 2024 Live online

The Role of Wellbeing in Individual and Organisational Growth

New for 2024

Live online, Classroom

This programme will discuss definitions of wellbeing, acknowledging that it has many different components. It will detail what each of these components are and the need to understand the symbiotic significance of each component. Drawing on neurological evidence the programme will examine the signs of declining Well Being, and explain the related negative outcomes to the individual and the workplace.

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Claire Mould
  • Next: 16 May 2024 Live online
  • Also: 1 Aug 2024 Live online
  • Also: 6 Nov 2024 Live online

Understanding and Improving Business Processes

New for 2024

Live online

This highly focussed course will give you the knowledge and skills to evaluate and optimise your organisations strategies for understanding and improving business processes.

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Helene Russell
  • Next: 21 Jun 2024 Live online
  • Also: 14 Oct 2024 Live online

Working with Emotional Intelligence in the Pharmaceutical and Biopharma Industry

Updated for 2024

Live online

This emotional intelligence in pharma and biopharma straining course will help you learn to communicate more effectively in the pharma and biopharma industries. "What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills – your EQ — not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by IQ tests.” — Daniel Goleman

  • 6 CPD hours Focused
  • Presented by Dr Laura Brown
  • Recorded webcast

Ecosystems and how they are changing the world of work and business

Free

Recorded webcast

An Ecosystem is an ‘interconnected system’ or a working group through which individuals or businesses with common goals, purpose, or challenges can openly share, collaborate, learn, and co-create new opportunities.  

  • Presented by Jennifer Vessels
  • and Mark Thomas
  • Recorded webcast

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Free

Recorded webcast

We will all be aware of the term AI, but how many of us really understand it? We are constantly told that it is likely to change so many aspects of our future world and organisations. Yet what level of knowledge do we really have on the subject? Book your complimentary place below to get up to speed on the rapidly developing world of Artificial Intelligence.

  • Presented by Afke Schouten
  • and Mark Thomas
  • Recorded webcast

Making Sustainable Business Transformation Happen: Better Business, Better Tomorrow

Free

Recorded webcast

FWF partner and CEO, founder of SusteneriGroup. Rudi Plettinx will explore the world of sustainable business and seek to cut through the fog of corporate hype and explore what really needs to happen to drive sustainability. Rudi will be joined by colleagues, Luc Garguet-Dupont & Ugeshree Thakurpersad Director and Founder of DevRani Consult.

  • Presented by Luc Garguet-Duport
  • + 3 more
  • Self-paced

Leadership and People Skills

Self-paced

In four hours this *Personal Improvement Course* will explain and teach you the core skills needed to be an effective leader in business.

  • Mark Thomas
  • and Mr Mike Williams
  • Self-paced

The Mini-MBA

Self-paced

Few people can afford the years - or the money - for an MBA course. But this does not mean that you cannot use the key principles of an MBA to your advantage in your day-to-day business life. This on-line course of 12 modules will show you how.

  • 36 CPD hours
  • Mark Thomas
  • + 5 more
  • Self-paced

The Pharma 'Mini-MBA' On-line Learning Programme

Self-paced

A 14 module self-managed, flexible, online learning course: Focus on the essential MBA theory, practice and technique needed to be a high-performing manager in the field of pharmaceutical with this 14 module course allowing 3 to 4 hours per module to be completed in your own time.

  • 42 CPD hours
  • Mark Thomas
  • + 6 more
  • Self-paced

The Telecoms 'Mini-MBA' On-line Learning Programme

Self-paced

Focus on the essential practical skills, knowledge and techniques needed to be a high-performer in the field of telecommunications.

  • Kevin Hard
  • + 8 more
  • Publication

The Best of John Adair on Leadership and Management

Publication

This new edition is a goldmine of ideas, advice and techniques from one of the world's leading writers on management and leadership. It brings together all of John Adair's thinking on leadership, teambuilding, creativity and innovation, problem-solving, motivation, communication and time-management.

  • John Adair
  • and Neil Thomas
  • Publication

Companies Don't Succeed - People Do!

Publication

Positive, provoking and profit-driven, here are over 100 ideas to challenge your preconceptions and to help you build your business to be stronger, fitter and quicker.

  • Graham Roberts-Phelps
  • Publication

The Concise Adair on Leadership

Publication

The Concise Adair on Leadership encapsulates his writing on how to develop your own leadership potential, to motivate your colleagues and to build a creative and high-performing team.

  • John Adair
  • and Neil Thomas
  • Publication

Great Leaders - Inspirational Lessons in Leadership

Publication

Who are the great leaders in history and what have they got to teach us today about the nature and practice of leadership? John Adair explores a wide range of inspiring leaders, from Lao Tzu and Machiavelli, to Thatcher and Mandela.

  • John Adair
  • Publication

Gurus on Business Strategy

Publication

A one-stop guide to the world's most important thinkers and writers on business strategy. It expertly summarises all the key strategic concepts and analyses the pro's and con's of many of the key theories in practice.

  • Tony Grundy
  • Publication

Gurus on Leadership

Publication

A one-stop guide to the world's key writers on leadership, their thoughts and contributions.

  • Mark Thomas
  • Publication

Leadership for Leaders

Publication

Based on extensive research, this book challenges accepted 'norms' and establishes the 7 key competencies required for successful leadership today

  • Mr Mike Williams
  • Publication

Mastering Business Planning and Strategy

Publication

Practical techniques for profiling your business and the competition, analysing the market, mastering strategic thinking, positioning for marketplace success, option appraisal and strategic decision-making, as well as implementing and managing change.

  • Paul Elkin
  • Publication

Mastering Leadership

Publication

Without a grasp of what true leadership implies you cannot hope to develop a really effective team. This book shows what distinguishes truly high-achieving teams from the rest of the pack.

  • Mr Mike Williams
  • Publication

The Mobile Boardroom

Publication

The Mobile Boardroom covers the challenges business owners and directors will face when they involved in Buying, Growing or Selling a company. Top tips on all aspects of the business cycle will take you through everything you need to know.

  • Julian Clay
  • and Nik Askaroff
  • Publication

The Shorter MBA

Publication

This practical and succinct book presents all the essential theory, practice and techniques taught to MBA students and is ideal for the busy practising executive. The book is divided into three main parts: personal development, management skills and business development.

  • Mr Barrie Pearson
  • and Neil Thomas
  • Publication

Successful Career Management - A Guide for Organisations, Leaders and Individuals

Publication

A complete guide to Successful Career Management relevant for organisations, leaders and individuals.

  • Stuart McAdam