Developing leaders and managers

Future Leaders is Land Registry's in-house programme for developing staff potential through a mixture of assignments, secondments and training. It has two main strands - the one-year local office-based Local Accelerated Module (LAM) and the three-year centrally-organised Central Accelerated Module (CAM).

A key challenge for the CAM participants is the biannual design and delivery of leadership forums, which explore 'real life' business issues for Land Registry in addition to considering leadership theory and practice.

In September 2007 the original participants will be entering the third and final year of their participation on CAM. Over the three-year cycle the involvement of these participants has included the studying of MBAs to broaden their knowledge and undertaking secondments to gain practical experience of different parts of the organisation.

Each LAM participant undertakes a 360-degree feedback exercise to inform their development needs for the year ahead. Some will undertake a personal development programme with the Prince's Trust in 2007. Others have used the flexibility of the programme to participate in local projects and some have 'tested the water' to see what it would be like to work in other parts of the business, such as Head Office.

Over the last couple of years, our local management trainers have been successfully implementing the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) level 4 diploma for relevant staff such as district team. In 2006/7 219 candidates were registered. The ILM has been complemented effectively by the introduction of district team leader workshops, which have added a valuable operational perspective to the knowledge base provided by the ILM studies.