I very much welcome your interest in this new exciting G-ACUA Vector Executive Management Programme.

Let me take a moment of your time to tell you about the exciting role that you have in mapping the future of management and the key disciplines that you will acquire.

We have worked for some time to ensure that the Vector Programme Environment provides you with a unique opportunity to make that important step-up into top management thinking, decision making and the acquisition of the all important executive delivery capabilities. You will be assessed on your achievements in these disciplines.

The programme makes it possible for you to experience and draw together the mainstream strands of development, to manage the diverse strategic forces and behaviours that influence the direction and performance of a business entity, and to understand how each of us can direct those forces at work

For those of you who have not experienced the dynamics of a real-time management process before, I would like to add one or two comments to prepare the ground for you. 

The Vector Programme is not a passive process where you sit on your behind and the so called 'experts' pour their wisdom into your ears. It will require you to take a new learning stance to get the full benefits from the programme and achieve something of real value that will help and sustain you going forward throughout you career. 

There is a new world of management opening out before us and we need to be conscious of the difference

 

We are all aiming at a moving target

And to be successful we have to
innovate and learn new skills

From the start you have to dedicate yourself to taking responsibility for managing your own learning using the dynamic programme curriculum provided. For many people making the transition from the passive learning process to a dynamic one, where we become the leaders and creators of new management paradigms, is not as easy as it sounds. 

We have, in designing the Vector Programme, made provision for refreshing your learning approach and in making this passive to dynamic transition, by including authoritative courseware references about action learning, the evolving role of the dynamic corporate university concept in real-time business and organisational development and giving pointers to useful sources of new information and intelligence.

We have also carefully chosen a sequence of work-based assignments that will help you to make that transition; opening new doors to enhance your learning management strengths and the exciting intellectual perspectives that relate to the new demands in your world of management. 

Whilst the progressive programme of written assignments and the marking feedback will provide you with a guideline on what you are doing well and where you can improve, one of the main disciplines you have to achieve is that of objective self-assessment on the quality of the decisions you have made and on what you have achieved.

In that respect bear these questions in mind:

·         what should I have learnt?

·         how well did I learn?

·         where and when did I learn for best effect?

·         and how did I do it and deliver it?

 

Be critical, but be congratulatory on what you have achieved. It's a lifetime skill.

Professor Richard Dealtry  
richarddealtry@btconnect.com