The Wales Management Council is an employer-led body whose mission is to help managers in Wales to lead and manage successfully.
We aim to inspire, motivate and drive change in the perception, delivery, take-up and funding of management and leadership development in Wales.
Our strategy is to:
- Convince all managers of the benefits of developing their skills and abilities
- Identify, by thorough research, the real development needs of managers in Wales
- Ensure that managers can obtain high quality and flexible training and development
- Share best UK and international management practice among all businesses in Wales
- Measure progress against credible benchmarks.
We exist because the quality of management and leadership in Wales will have a direct impact upon our future growth, productivity and performance.
The demands on managers are growing, and organisations have to ensure that their executives have sufficient management and leadership skills to compete at the highest level.
Therefore businesses in Wales are demanding training and development of the highest quality, relevance, and accessibility.
The Wales Management Council is taking the lead in the development and implementation of a national strategy and action plan to tackle these needs effectively.
Through well-targeted and sustained communication, we aim to help change attitudes and build greater awareness of Wales’ need to develop the full potential of its managers.
Using robust research we aim both to stimulate new thinking and to highlight exactly how and where Wales needs to improve its management development provision.
By joint working with partners we aim to help bring about the necessary change and to spread best practice throughout the country.
We aim to assist organisations and individual managers directly by:
- Disseminating practical information on management improvement, through conferences, seminars, the printed word and the internet
- Facilitating debate on key aspects of management and leadership
- Enabling exemplar businesses to share good practice with other enterprises.
We will pioneer targets for improvement in management capability and performance and measure progress against credible UK benchmarks.
Our ultimate benchmark is a major increase in the efficiency and profitability of businesses and organisations, leading to significant economic growth for Wales.