Director Development Programme (DDP) provides leadership and management advice and subsidised training to the principal decision maker or key decision makers/directors of companies with between 5 and 249 employees.

The programme covers:

Leadership: Key Development Areas:

• Strategic
• Analytical
• Inspirational
• Personal
• Management: Key Development Areas

Products and Services

• Developing Markets
• People Development
• Finance
• Sales and Marketing
• Operations

Want more information? Call Nick Booker on 01926 864900 or send an email to info@bookerhopkins.co.uk with DDP in the title line

Eligibility

To be eligible for the DDP service, companies must:

• Complete a Diagnostic review of the business, including Leadership & Management assessment, undertaken by a Business Link Advisor, to identify or validate their Leadership and Management Development needs
• Have between 5-249 staff (including unpaid volunteers)
• Be less than 25% owned by a large organisation
• Be based within the West Midlands area

To be eligible individuals must:

• Hold a principal decision maker or key decision makers/directors position
• Have a development need at principal decision maker or key decision makers/directors level.
• Be based within the West Midlands area
• Not have received the DDP grant since April 2007

Funding available from Business Link

Grant Funding of up to £1,000 is available:

• First £500 grant is not required to be matched by the client and is available to the key director (principal decision maker).
• Additional £500 grant is available but must be cash matched. It can be utilised by the key director or additional key decision makers identified by the Key Director.
• Training can be delivered on a one-to-one or group basis. In terms of groups, this can be to management teams from the same company or to a network of leaders and managers from the different companies. The same grant funding regime applies. For example, a management team from the same business (which includes the principal decision maker) can receive a £1,000 grant towards training costs of £1,500.
• For a network of leaders/managers from different companies, those that are principal decision-makers in their business can receive grant funding of up to £500 (fully-funded) and other key decision, up to £500 with the same level of cash match funding.