External links

Professional bodies

 

• Chartered Management Institute

  The only chartered professional body dedicated to raising the standards of management and leadership.

  http://www.managers.org.uk/

• Institute of Leadership and Management

  Learning and development for today’s leaders and managers.

  http://www.i-l-m.com/

• Chartered Institute for Personnel Development

  Supporting and developing those responsible for the management and development of people within organisations.

  http://www.cipd.co.uk/

• Federation of Small Businesses

  The UK’s largest campaigning pressure group promoting and protecting the interests of the self-employed and owners of small firms.

  http://www.fsb.org.uk/

• The Institute of Directors

  Europe’s largest membership organisation for business leaders, providing highly regarded professional development programmes.

  http://www.iod.com/home/default.aspx

• Investors in People

  Our new approach can transform your organisation’s performance by targeting your chosen business priorities.

  http://www.investorsinpeople.co.uk/Pages/Home.aspx

Centres of expertise

 

• Vanguard Consulting

  Helping organisations change from command and control to a systems approach to the design and management of work.

  http://www.systemsthinking.co.uk/home.asp

• Advisory, Consiliation and Arbitration Service

  Aims to improve organisations and working life through better employment relations.

  http://www.acas.org.uk/

• Lean Enterprise Research Centre

  One of the largest centres of its kind in the world - LERC’s mission is to research, apply and communicate lean thinking.

  http://www.leanenterprise.org.uk/

• Design Wales

  Workshops, training courses and events support businesses in understanding and managing design issues.

  http://www.designwales.org/

• The National Centre for Product Design and Development Research

  A unique approach to help companies both large and small discover, design and develop world beating products.

  http://www.pdronline.co.uk/

• The Ashridge Leadership Centre

  An academic research unit acting as a catalyst for creative thinking, dialogue, research and writing about leadership, complexity, uncertainty and change.

  http://www.ashridge.org.uk/website/content.nsf/wFARALC/Ashridge+Leadership+Centre?opendocument

• Wales Quality Centre

  The need to promote innovation and business excellence is reflected in our training and award programmes.

  http://www.walesqualitycentre.org.uk/

Academic institutions

 

• Centre for Leadership Studies

  Seeking to challenge accepted truths about leadership practice, theory and development.

  http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/cls/

• Harvard Business School

  Drawing upon a passion for teaching and experience in working with organisations worldwide.

  http://www.hbs.edu/

• Cranfield School of Management

  A world leader in management education and research, helping individuals and businesses learn and succeed by transforming knowledge into action.

  http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/

• Lancaster University Management School

  Lancaster University Management School is a world-class hub for leadership research and leadership development.

  http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/leadership/