Our Excelling in Operational Management programme is essential development for those with experience of managing a team or project who aspire to take on a more senior-level role
Our unique programme fully aligns with the Level 5 Operational Management apprenticeship programme meaning you can use the Apprenticeship Levy to fund your management development.
The programme is suitable for people who are working in roles such as Operations Manager, Regional Manager or Department Manager.
Their key responsibilities may include:
The first part of ‘Excelling in Operational Management’ journey starts through the process of self management.
Building on your personal effectiveness, here you will further reflect on your own performance and impact. Through the application of self-awareness tools you will develop your emotional intelligence and awareness of unconscious bias.
In the final part of the Leading Self section, you will be provided with the tools and techniques to efficiently solve problems and make difficult decisions.
In the first part of the Leading Others section, you will develop a deeper understanding of effective relationships with partners and stakeholders.
Playing an integral role in your teams performance, you will develop your competence in managing people. Here you will explore how to optimise your teams performance including how to recruit talent and how through effective performance & talent management processes you will enhance the development of high performance teams.
In order to be a great leader, you must understand your leadership style and your impact on your organisational culture. With you will develop your ability to motivate others and improve performance through coaching & mentoring. You will also develop a deeper understanding of leading & managing change.
In the first part of the Leading the Business section you will explore effective project management, including managing budgets and consideration of the financial implications of your decisions. You will engage with different tools and techniques to impact positive change within the business; enabling the achievement of business results.
Effective operational business planning is an essential skill for a great leader. Here you will develop your understanding of operational management approaches. You will gain a deeper understanding of management systems, data security and contingency planning while being able to identify barriers to overcome in order to initiate change.
Effective communication is an essential part of leadership and underpins the entire apprenticeship journey. Throughout all the workshops, you will be building on your communication knowledge and skills, from gaining a more thorough understanding of interpersonal skills and the different forms of communication to being able to apply them appropriately in situations such as when giving constructive feedback.
During the programme, in addition to developing your leadership knowledge and skills, you will also be developing your character to excel at leadership and management. Throughout your journey you will demonstrate the behaviours required of a successful leader; responsibility, inclusivity, agility, and professionalism.
We stick to what we do best! We have been inspiring people with high quality, leadership & management learning and development for over 15 years. We focus on providing the best learner experience and tangible performance improvements for your business and your people.
Our programmes are contextualised to your business to ensure the content is always relevant, authentic and provides your people with a more meaningful experience that will keep them engaged. The time we spend to understand your organisation means we delivers exactly what your business requires of its leaders and managers. Our curriculum fully maps out the learner’s ‘off the job’ requirement aligning activities to their day-to-day activity, responsibilities and in-work projects, continually embedding the learning as they work through the programme.
We have created a wealth of bespoke and innovative learning resources – including webinars, podcasts, videos and curated learning content – producing a more holistic learning experience. We are unique in that we are able to leverage our access to the best thought leaders in leadership & management whose insights and experiences are harnessed within the development and delivery of our programmes.
We have partnered with Bud to provide our learners with an engaging, innovative learning platform to keep them motivated throughout their programme journey. Learners can access activities, resources, contact their coach and upload their work and evidence from their smartphone, tablet or computer. The easy-to-use interface clearly guides the learners through their programme and gives line managers access to live data, allowing less excuses for incomplete tasks!
All of our programmes are supported by our hugely popular interactive workshops, delivered by our experienced consultants. A lead consultant will deliver for the learners at the beginning, middle and end of the programme to provide a further layer of continuous support whilst the addition of further subject matter experts adds a different perspective and keeps learners engaged.
All of our programmes can be delivered entirely online, reducing the time out of the business for your valued leaders and managers. We can also offer face to face delivery where this is possible. Our innovative learning platform – Bud, gives learners instant access to their learning programme from their laptop, tablet or phone. We even have options of in-company cohorts or open programmes – we are flexible to suit you.
Every learner has a Leadership & Management Coach to support them through their programme journey. We recruit only the best coaches, highly qualified with industry experience so they can truly relate to the learner’s role. We allocate lower caseloads to allow time for regular 121’s with all learners and additional support where required.
Our amazing team are there to guide you through the whole journey. From bespoke engagement support to attract the right people, regular support calls and thorough reports to provide you with all the information you need and ongoing 121s for learners to ensure they are fully engaged and well prepared for end point assessment.
Our end point assessment pass rate of 96% speaks for itself! We work hard to support learners all the way up to their last assessment, embedding EPA preparation throughout their journey and continuously updating our EPA supporting resources.
We have invested heavily in creating our own content for our programmes, providing our learners with hours of resources. From Brilliant Minds – which pulls on the expertise of subject matter experts – to The Knowledge – a workbook, textbook and review of latest leadership thinking, all in one place, our innovative content ensures our learners are always engaged!
The programme maps to a Level 5 advanced apprenticeship standard.
The average programme length is 18 months plus 3 months for End Point Assessment.
Average of 29 working hours per month. We have designed our programme in a way that ensures learners achieve these hours through the completion of the tasks set. These are often naturally occurring activities that will be undertaken in work.
The learner must work at least 50% of their time in England and must not have a qualification at the same level or above in this subject area.
There are no specific entry requirements unless specified by the employer.
Achievement is gained through completion of End Point Assessments which are carried out by an Independent End Point Assessment Organisation.
As we are a Government Registered Apprenticeships Training Provider, you can use your Levy to fund this programme. Not enough funds in your Levy account? Don’t worry, the government will co-fund 95% of the programme costs.
Working with raise the bar and my aligned coach over the last 12months has been consistent and educational providing me with the right information for the L5 Operational Management I have enrolled onto. Alongside this Julie provides insights into practical use cases, whilst coaching myself to obtain the answer naturally. Having a dedicated coach provides me with tailored guidance, on demand, and through scheduled 1-2-1s enabling me to do my best work. Julie provides constructive feedback on all evidence and professional discussions to help me strive for the highest level of EPA output.
Kyle Davies
Programme Learner
Joining this team was the best move I have made in my professional career. A team where everyone is in pursuit of the same goal – to deliver an outstanding teaching and learning experience to our clients. Amazing resources too!
Julie Piergianni
Leadership & Management Coach
Will is more self-assured in his day to day dealing with the wider Division, not just the team he manages. He is more assertive when he needs to be, which is a direct result of the training and the confidence this has instilled in him.
Line Manager
This course has been one of the best that Bibby have invested in. When the opportunity to volunteer for this course came around I was, at best, sceptical of the benefit to me or Bibby. 12 months on and after investing 20% of my working life into this course & my self-development, the team at Raise the Bar have done a fantastic job at quelling my scepticism. The diverse subject matter delivered by their network of experts has kept me engaged during their regular workshops.
Programme Learner
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