Given that all our programmes are job-orientated it is self-evident that we should take account of the current issues facing client’s organisations in designing our programmes.  Our approach is to audit each organisation by interviewing key individuals and reading our way into their markets, financial performance etc. where that expertise does not already exist in the Programme Director.  This initial awareness creating activity is clearly very much the beginning of a detailed appraisal which goes on as an integral part of the programme as it develops.

During these initial visit to the organisation the Programme Director will meet the mangers of the course participants and other interested parties (e.g. directors who will be giving presentations) and begin the process of familiarising them with the aims of the programme, their roles as mentors and what will be expected of them.  The Programme Director will also discuss the selection criteria for participants and when they are chosen call a meeting to describe the programme and give them the pre-course work to be done.