It is imperative that management development
programmes help managers to equip their people with the skills needed to progress
self-learning. It is imperative that management development programmes
succeed in improving morale, releasing energy and enhancing productivity. It
is imperative that management development programmes lead the way in forging an
empowered culture that can task individuals and teams in the mission of supporting
organisational change and development. With these
management development aims realised managers can focus attention on acquiring
the essential business and entrepreneurial skills they need to play an effective
role in organisational development. In this context it is also imperative
that management development programmes help managers to become environmentalists,
business strategists and agents for leading organisational change. Only
through having a learning culture with respected management development programmes
can the organisation continue to develop and grow. This of course is known to
all not least senior management, so why is it that all to often we are faced with
participants who, for one reason or another, simply do not want to attend management
development courses and often resent being there? | 
