These are the elements of TMP:
Orientation Day
Week One: Strategic Responses to a Rapidly Changing Future
Week Two: International Week: Policy Power and Politics
Week Three: Leading the High Performing Organisation
Coaching
Action Learning
• Orientation Day
Orientation introduces participants to the philosophy, ground rules, and design and delivery methods of TMP. Participants are also introduced to each other and encouraged to begin to consider themselves as team members within their TMP cohort. The ethos behind, and the benefits of, action learning and peer mentoring are also introduced as key elements in the TMP experience, with the groups meeting for the first time and being introduced to their action learning facilitator.
• Week One: Strategic Responses to a Rapidly Changing Future
This residential week is designed to address the issues associated with strategy, leadership, governance and change. The week will include case-study visits to and presentations from organisations with experience of change management. Participants will also be briefed on System Level Leadership challenge, the 360-degree review process and fully introduced to the process of action learning. In subsequent weeks, participants will have several one day meetings of their action learning group and also meet for a coaching session.
• Week Two: International Week: Policy, Power and Politics
This residential element covers issues associated with trends in Government policy in the UK and also internationally. Depending upon the particular programme run and international location it may also include visits to UK Government departments as well as to international policy agencies and meetings and networking trips to universities in the countries visited. The international week may be a London/mainland European location or a destination outside of Europe.
This module is followed by an action learning session.
• Week Three: Leading the High Performing Organisation
This residential week addresses the essential elements of enterprise and financial management and how these key business concepts affect the future strategic direction of institutions. This module also provides time to discuss strategic HR and personal career management issues. There is an action learning session within this module.
• Coaching
The first coaching session will be face-to-face and take place after Week One. Subsequent coaching session will take place by telephone, or where possible, online via Skype. The precise dates will be agreed between the delegate and their learning facilitator at the start of the TMP programme at the Orientation Day.
• Action Learning
This essence of action learning is: a group of peers, each seeking to bring about some change in the world, who meet regularly to discuss where they are each experiencing difficulty and then testing in action the ideas arising from that discussion.
Action Learning is usually practised through action learning groups. The group consists of up to 7 people, each working on a separate challenge, who meet regularly to discuss the problems they are each encountering with the objective being to learn with and from each other. At each meeting the time is usually split equally so that everybody can focus on the issues of each person in turn. It is important to note that (1) there is a clear structure to the set meetings, and (2) that the group meetings are only part of the process. The other part is the testing out of the ideas in action, which happens in the time between the group meetings. The group helps each individual in turn to reflect on the outcomes of their recent actions and develop ideas for overcoming obstacles to further progress.
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