Wales Management Council

Other Publications

Leadership and Management - What's it Worth? (2008)

The case for spending time, money and energy on learning and development for leaders and managers.
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Management Think About It Again Compendium (2008)

A selection of topics collated from our monthly newesletter Management Think About It. The topics have been group to make a useful reference resource.
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Trusted Advisor Report (2008)

The purpose of this report is to explore the role of the trusted advisor. What does this person look like? What are their qualifications for such a role? Do businesses value a service that they pay for?
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Leadership and Management Development Strategies in Wales and England(2007)

SkillsActive, the lead SSC for leadership and management development across the UK, has invited the Wales Management Council to review the current strategic proposals for leadership and management development in Wales against the published strategies available from the RDAs and SSCs to identify common issues, highlight best practice, explore contradictions and support or challenge the initiatives that are currently being proposed in Wales and elsewhere in the UK.
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Older Workers in Wales (2007)

The purpose of this report, which is a collaboration between the Wales Management Council and Age Concern Cymru, is to explore the contribution, involvement and management of older workers in Wales.
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Action for Growth (2007)

Leadership and management is proven as the key to raising financial performance and growth of employment opportunities in all organisations. Good leaders and managers invest in the development of their workforce thus pulling through the skills agenda.
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Management Think About It Again Compendium (2007)

A selection of topics collated from our monthly newesletter Management Think About It. The topics have been group to make a useful reference resource.
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Management Think About It Again Compendium (2006)

A selection of topics collated from our monthly newesletter Management Think About It. The topics have been group to make a useful reference resource.
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Tomorrow's Manager (2006)

At the end of 2005 we convened two Working Groups of interested and informed people to explore the complementary issues of what management skills will be required in the future, in the light of changes to the way we live andn work, and what is the most appropriate way in which public funding should be used to support management and leaddership development to meet future organisational needs.
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Measuring the Difference (2006)

The problem with management and leadership development is that we all believe it is important, and we all have personal anecdotes of the way in which raising skill levels has helped to improve business performance. But there is no hard, convincing, public evidence that developing management skills impacts on the bottom or the top line.
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Management Think About It Compendium (2005)

A selection of topics collated from our monthly newesletter Management Think About It. The topics have been group to make a useful reference resource.
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Agenda for Growth (2005)

Management is neither a science nor a profession, neither a function nor a combination of functions. Management is a practice - it has to be appreciated through experience, in context. Management may use science, but is an art that is combined with science through craft.
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Management Development in Wales

Good leaders and managers are the key to succesful organisations, but do we do enough to help our managers develop their skills to compete in today's tough markets? This report is based on a mass of statistical evidence gleaned from over 1500 organisations of all sizes and from all sectors via postal and telephone questionnaires.
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High Performance Working (January 2005)

High Performance Workplaces get the most from every part of a business, and in particular from its people, by creating a valued, diverse and involved workforce. it's not about size or sector - any business can adopt the key characteristics of a high performance workplace to motivate stff and in turn raise productivity.
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Mentoring in Wales (October 2004)

Mentoring has now become one of the essential tools in the development armoury. Its potential to stimulate learning in both parties to the relationship is well documented. That makes it one of the most effective human resource instruments available.
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Pressing the Right Buttons (May 2004)

The Council brought together a group of marketing
professionals in Wales to discuss the problem of marketing
management development to SMEs. This report is the result of
their discussions.
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Best Managed Workplace Report (October 2003)

This project highlights real exemplars of good management practice from organisations in the private, public and not-for-profit sector that are an inspiration for others.
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Management and E-business Report (September 2003)

By talking to a small sample of managers across Wales we hoped to gain improved insight into the practical management implications of e-commerce to complement the first e-commerce report published in 2002.By talking to a small sample of managers across Wales we hoped to gainimproved insight into the practical management implications of e-commerce to complement the first e-commerce report published in 2002.
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Wales Management Team Challenge 2003

The Wales Management Team Challenge, now in its second year, is the brainchild of the Wales Management Council and Trac, the training department of the enterprise agency, Antur Teifi.
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Management and Innovation Report (March 2003)

The Council established a Business Innovation Working Group with the aim of
identifying the secrets of innovation. This report summarises the findings
of that research.
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The Managerial Implications of Ecommerce Report (March 2003)

The aims of this report were to understand the experiences of Welsh organisations that had "taken the plunge" into e-commerce and to try to develop a template for those companies which had yet to start the journey seriously.
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Future Good Practice Report (November 2001)

Managers within Wales will face many different challenges to keep up with
the various changes affecting the future development of their organisation.
This report highlights some of them.
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