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Make UK

Leadership Development

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Make UK is a London-based membership organisation for UK manufacturers, founded in 1896 as the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF). Alongside advice and campaigning for its members, it runs training in leadership and management, employment law and human resources (HR), health and safety, and technical skills. Its Leadership and Management Development Programme is aimed at line managers and people moving from peer to manager or from manager to leader. Employers pick from around 25 modules of three hours each, on subjects such as communication, conflict, decision making and managing performance, delivered virtually or at their own site. Shorter open courses run in a virtual classroom, and engineering apprenticeships are taught at its Technology Hub in Aston, Birmingham. Members pay less for open courses. Critical Thinking and Decision Making, for example, costs £175 plus value added tax (VAT) for members and £220 for non-members, while the modular programme is priced on enquiry. The courses are described as continuing professional development (CPD) accredited. The trading company, EEF Limited, is an employers' association and a company limited by guarantee, and Ofsted (the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills) graded it Good in its latest report, dated December 2023. The website displays Good Business Charter, Cyber Essentials and LRQA certification badges.

MDA Training

Leadership Development

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MDA Training is a learning and development company in Banstead, Surrey, set up in 1988 by Professor Walter Reid of London Business School. It uses business simulations and experiential workshops to build leadership, commercial and financial skills, for audiences from graduates and newly promoted managers to senior leaders. Its catalogue includes a leadership simulation, leadership assessment simulations and banking simulations covering areas such as trade finance and cash management. It also runs insight events, inductions and continuing professional development (CPD) for asset management, banking, insurance and corporate clients, plus team activities for conferences and away-days. Delivery is in person, virtual or hybrid, and digital simulations can be self-paced. Programme lengths are not published. Prices are not published. Clients named on its about page include M&G, WTW, Zurich, the British Army and Deloitte. MDA Training is part of the MDA Group, which also includes MDA Films and the digital learning platform FMI Online, and its Managing Director is David Shuttleworth. No company accreditations are listed.

MLP Training

Leadership Development

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MLP Training is a UK provider of sales, management and leadership training that states it has more than 30 years of experience. Its courses include Telephone Selling, Negotiating Skills, a Sales Managers' Master Class, Coaching and Mentoring, Appraisals and Performance, Managing Change and Leadership Skills. Most last one day, while Successful Selling Skills and Train the Trainer last two. Courses run online or in-house at a location the client chooses, and in-house versions can be adapted to the client's business. Online courses cost £500 plus value added tax (VAT) per person for one day and £1,000 plus VAT for two days, with corporate rates for in-house delivery. No accreditations are displayed. The site names clients including Volvo, Virgin, AstraZeneca, Babcock, Stannah and Greater Manchester Police, and states that its training materials have been distributed by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

MTD Training

Leadership Development

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MTD Training is the trading name of Management Training & Development Ltd, a Coventry-based management training company founded in 2001. It runs management, leadership and soft skills training for team leaders through to senior managers, as in-house courses, open courses and online learning. Open courses last two days and run in hotels in London, Manchester, Bristol, Coventry and Reading. In-house courses take place at the client's site or a chosen venue, and management development programmes run for 3 to 18 months as workshops or blended learning. It also offers 360-degree feedback, DISC (dominance, influence, steadiness and conscientiousness) profiling and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessments. Open courses cost £495 to £695 plus value added tax (VAT) per person, depending on the course and whether the optional Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) certificate is taken. A self-paced ILM Assured online course of 16 short sessions costs £97 plus VAT. Courses carry continuing professional development (CPD) certification. The company states it has worked with more than 9,000 organisations, and lists awards from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Personnel Today.