WORKING TOGETHER TO BUILD HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS

Organisations are more complex and sensitive to global issues than ever. Today’s business leaders need to think – and act – differently.

Which is where the Centre for Executive Development at Aston Business School comes in. We work with you to create effective, tailored executive development initiatives to raise the capability of your leaders. These are designed to help your executives think more clearly and creatively, inspiring them to lift your organisation to greater success.

Our goal is to develop your people – individually and collectively – and to equip them with all they need to make your strategy work.

• We start with you - to build an understanding of your organisation, ambitions, and target population
• We work with you - to co-design fit-for-purpose executive development progammes that address your issues relevantly
• We partner your leaders - to enable them to step away from their day-to-day operations and look at themselves and their organisation from the outside-in
• Together - we enhance your leaders’ capacity to innovate and create your future

 
As we often work in cohorts of 20-25 at a time, our programmes also build rich new networks of internal collaboration. 

WHAT DO WE DO?

We create executive learning environments. These are practical, focused executive development programmes where leaders can explore new and proven business techniques.
 
They build personal confidence and effectiveness, which can have a positive impact throughout the organisation.

We work together with clients to co-design and co-deliver dynamic, relevant programmes. These raise performance capability and build team spirit, helping fulfill corporate strategy and deliver measurable results.

HOW DO WE DO IT?

• To encourage fresh thinking and tackle specific issues, we can help to:
• Develop customised programmes to meet leaders’ strategic needs
• Design short, open programmes to build given skills sets
• Deliver accredited, client-specific programmes with focused goals.

And it doesn’t stop there. We continue

• To give our partners ongoing support, encouraging them to apply their learning
• To achieve the required results.

OUR APPROACH IS…

• Tailored and hands on, based around individual and collective needs
• Flexible and fluid, reactive to partners’ concerns and suggestions
• Fully supported with a proven framework to see programmes through
• Inclusive, with all parties sharing their ideas
• Benchmarked through case studies and relevant scenarios
• Well balanced, blending learning and a practical company focus
• Measurable through ROI tracking against the value of the commission.

OUR VISION IS…

• To be a major executive development partner of choice, equipping and inspiring leaders to think clearly, to be confident and to take innovative action.
• To work in partnership with clients:
  • To co-design and co-deliver robust, dynamic and relevant development programmes
  • To raise executive capability and build team spirit to achieve corporate strategy
  • To deliver measurable results.

KEY FACULTY

The research capacity of ABS stems from our international faculty. We have over 100 academic staff, almost all of whom are research active. We bring you not only the broad portfolio of tried and tested business school tools but also Aston Business School’s long track record of successfully devising and delivering executive development programmes, our peer-tested fresh insight springing from what the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) judged to be ‘world leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ research, and our standing as one of the top 1% of business schools in the world, and one of a very few to have triple accreditation from EFMD EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB. 

KEY SUBJECT AREAS

Team leadership, HR systems, brand management, strategic alliances, strategy in dynamic contexts, structuring major change initiatives, managing human reactions in the context of change, project management competencies, structured projects and communication plans, foreign investment, doing business in Islamic contexts.

CASE STUDIES

Our client cases appear in our web site. View here

DELIVERING WORLD CLASS RESEARCH TO ACHIEVE GLOBAL RESULTS

RESEARCH AREAS

All of our activities are underpinned by rigorous and relevant research. Our research aims to advance understanding of economics, business, work lives, society and ultimately the global community. A key indicator of the quality of our research (the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise) confirmed our position as one of the leading business schools in the UK. In a submission which included 95% of our academic staff, over 98% of our research activity was judged to be either ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.

We host a number of research centres that develop focused knowledge in many critical areas. Current Research Centres include:

• Aston Centre for Critical Infrastructure and Services (ACCIS)
• Aston Centre for Human Resources (ACHR)
• Aston Centre in Higher Education Learning and Management (HELM)
• Aston Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Language and Diversity (InterLanD)
• Centre for Performance Measurement and Management (CEPMMA)
• Centre for Sustainability and Innovation (CSI)
• El Shaarani Centre for Islamic Business and Finance (EIBF)
• Institute for Health Services Effectiveness (IHSE)
• Organisational Cognitive Neuroscience Centre (OCNC)
• India Foundation for Applied Business Research (IFABR)
• The Aston Centre for Research Into Safety and Security (CRISIS)

• Economics & Strategy
• Finance, Accounting & Law
• Marketing Group
• Operations & Information Management
• Work & Organisational Psychology

December 2010
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