Young Management Programme

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2 editions:

English edition: start November 2012
Dutch edition: start April 2013

Optimise your management and leadership potential

Are you ready to take the next step in your management career? Would you like to gain insight into your management capacities, and do you want to make full use of them? A training programme for high-potentials who have recently taken up their first management position and want to expand their frame of reference with respect to management.

Who should not miss this opportunity

managers with 4-10 years of professional experience and a first actual management experience of 1-3 years.
managers who want to grow.
high-potential managers who want to make a difference in their organisation.

Why the Young Management Programme?

The Young Management Programme helps you as a young managers to strengthen your personal developemnt, your knowledge of management and your management skills.

Programme design & content

The Young Management Programme consists of five 3-day residential modules, spread over 11 months. The programme is as follows:

Module 1: Personal management development (3 days)
Module 2: Knowledge fundamentals - part 1 (3 days)
Module 3: Knowledge fundamentals - part 2 (3 days)
Module 4: Management skills (3 days)
Module 5: Integration (3 days)

The series of modules is concluded with a 2-day integration game, in which you will translate the insights gained into the practical experience of running a company.

Throughout the programme you also take part in a self-management track and develop a business case in small teams.

Detailed programme

The Vlerick approach

Vlerick bridges theory and practice -- which, among other ways, is expressed in:

the balance between scientific underpinnings and a practice-oriented approach;
active teaching techniques -- such as case studies, simulations, questionnaires, action plans, etc. -- that promote maximum anchoring of the knowledge;
small groups (max. 25 participants) that, through optimum interactivity, guarantee involvement and successful translation to the participants' own organisations;
the modular and residential character that stimulates sharing of experience, networking and reflection;
the experienced Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School professors, who conduct the entire training programme both in the selection of content as well as didactically, guided by a dedicated programme coordinator.

What's next?

After this training programme, you will:

have gained insight into yourself as a manager, and you will know which strengths and areas for growth you can and should invest in further;
know the basic fundamentals of management, upon which you can build further in your daily work;
have a greater impact by virtue of more effective communication.

All participants receive a training certificate and are invited to become a member of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Alumni association.