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Course lead, Professor Paolo Quattrone, is a highly experienced academic who has held multiple international research positions and has recently been awarded an Interdisciplinary Leader Award from the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM). 

During this course, you will work alongside curious and open-minded business leaders to deconstruct conventional management approaches and tackle challenges with a new perspective. A data led approach will help you to ask the right questions to reach successful conclusions.

Day one:

Deconstruct conventional management styles, exploring their pros and cons
Analyse the relationship between knowledge, rationality, action, and change and its impact on business challenges
Understand the governance of decision-making and how data can inform decisions

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Discover new management strategies when dealing with complex challenges
Focus on the principles of managing ambiguity and dealing with inevitable tensions
Learn practical skills and principles to strengthen your ability to make reasonable and wise decisions

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Understand how new management approaches can be applied to your organisation
Analyse how business challenges link supply and value chains to social and environmental issues
An introduction to the Maieutic Machine, a tool used to improve the quality of decision making in business challenges

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Reflect on new ideas which support complex decision-making
Build your own Maieutic Machine and consider the effectiveness of your current communication, mediation, and engagement
Take part in final group presentations, testing your new knowledge in a risk-free environment

Duration: 4 Days
Delivery: Face To Face
Location: Executive Education Centre, Alliance Manchester Business School

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Personal Objective:

1. Develop a refreshed mindset, thinking outside the box on organisational ambiguity

2. Learn to live with ambiguity, rather than avoiding it

3. Discover alternative ways of designing data visualisations to cope with uncertainty

4. Explore how to reframe challenges into opportunities

5. Gain expert insights through real-world case studies and industry speakers

Organisational Objectives:

1. Suggest improvements to your organisation’s governance practices to better manage complex problems and challenges

2. Implement customised models and frameworks to cope with conflicting demands, ambiguity, and uncertainty
Begin to build an opportunist attitude towards hurdles within your organisation’s culture

3. Strengthen decision-making processes through teamwork and diffused leadership

4. Seek ways your organisation can profit from inevitable tensions surrounding complex decisions

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50% funding available for organisations in Greater Manchester

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This course is designed for senior business and government leaders who are curious, open-minded, and willing to explore new approaches to solving their business’s problems.

Whether you are a programme leader, are involved in business innovation, or perhaps your role focuses on strategic planning, this course will provide you with practical management insights which encourage you to rethink how you govern complexity, engage your team, and communicate with key stakeholders.

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