Bruck Payne Associates are delighted to confirm that the South Wales and Gwent Police Middle Managers Leadership Development Programme starts on the 21st February with 20 Inspectors and Police Staff joining the programme.

Confronting and overcoming the challenges of 2024 and beyond

The development of our talented police and police staff is an imperative in supporting the complex and fast-moving pace of modern policing in the UK. New forms of crime, advanced technologies, and evolving relationships with communities are shifting the very foundations of police work.

Traditional organisations are struggling to adapt to the demands of a new world that has rapidly changed around them. The police challenge going forward will be to merge technology with the human element. There is arguably a need for middle manager police officers and staff to have more knowledge and experience of budgetary management, human resources, team building, resilience, wellbeing and collaboration.

Our programme has been designed to cover both management and leadership development in line with the level of Inspector or equivalent member of Police Staff. To cover the role of a leader of large teams of sergeants, constables and police staff, with responsibility for the delivery of a range of diverse policing services whilst ensuring organisational standards are upheld.

Looking forward to starting work with these talented individuals next week.

Artemis and Apollo – our November session was held at the Alexandra Park Conference Centre after the Christmas celebration.  We were given a talk around AI and International and Home economic prospects for 2024 by our speaker Elena Beleska-Spasova whom has recently been made Dean of the Henley Business School.

Artemis and Apollo recently held the 2023 Christmas celebration at Alexandra Park Conference centre.  We all enjoyed the festivities.

The Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (CMDA) is an apprenticeship that delivers a quality degree and provides apprentices with higher level leadership and management skills, core competencies and desired behaviours to become a more effective manager.

Number of Students:  70 from all sectors of business – public and private.

Delivered: 8th November 2023

Module: Leading & Managing People

Programme Leader:  Morgen Witzel
Co-Presenter (2 Sessions):  Josie Payne

1. Turning simple neuroscience into action
2. Visble behaviours above the waterline and hidden depths beneath.

Using some exercises from emotional intelligence to focus on how our armygdala can affect our decision making; how self aware are they when the pressure is on?; how to prepare their personal brand for recruitment, promotion, presentations.  Introduction to the GC index.

Digital Workplace Owner at SSE.

Delivery focused IT Product Manager managing digital workplace technologies at

large global enterprise organisations. David’s data-driven approach, following SAFe framework principles has delivered value to a range of agile programmes.

David leads the platform team on a range of core digital workplace technologies, including Content Management Systems, Business Applications Platform, collaboration and communication tools. Managing an internal team of Product Owners and SME’s as well as external support teams and third parties, we provide the necessary governance to deliver innovative new capability to SSE, a global FTSE 100 green energy business.

Elena B. Spasova is the Dean of Henley Business School and

Professor of International Business.

She joined Henley in 2009 with over ten years of corporate strategy consulting experience working with organisations across Europe and North America. Elena has held a number of T&L leadership positions over the years and led the instituting and growth of a number of work-based and executive programmes both nationally and internationally. In her leadership capacity Elena has also headed major change management and education innovation projects.

In her current role as Dean, Elena works to provide vision, direction and leadership of the Henley Business School.

Her research interests include strategic issues and challenges faced by organisations on an international scale, drivers of international competitiveness and performance, with particular focus on exports and SMEs.

Amanda is the UK’s leading female motorsport, classic car and automotive TV broadcaster.

She is renowned for her passion and knowledge of contemporary and classic racing and her understanding of the international car industry. This has resulted in her presenting multiple programmes on UK and International Television and being a brand spokesperson for many of the most prestigious car companies in the world.

Amanda has done a fabulous job for Goodwood presenting both the Festival of Speed and the Revival programmes for ITV. She is an exceptional broadcaster but also extremely natural and most importantly makes everyone feel very at ease. She puts a huge amount of energy into it all and her knowledge and passion for the sport is abundantly clear.” Lord March

But Amanda is more than a presenter, unlike her peers she has raced competitively in historic, GT and Le Mans prototypes on the world’s most famous race tracks, and is still the only British female racing driver to have won an International long distance GT race. She is also a leading automotive journalist and is regularly to be found on the TV breakfast show sofas, providing insightful comment and opinion on all aspects of the automotive industry.

Josie has 20 years’ experience in the FMCG, pharmaceuticals and medical devices industry where as a board director of Beiersdorf UK she was responsible for maximising revenue and profitability. Her expertise and passion lie in the area of people and organisational development. With a philosophy that an organisation can only reach its full potential through developing and motivating its people.

Josie currently leads a national executive coaching and mentoring group for CEO’s and managing directors called Artemis and Apollo for both women and men who aspire to be the best business leaders in their field. She has coached and facilitated executive, director and middle management teams to manage the introduction of major new cultural change programmes as well as the implementation of Values into realistic behaviours that organisations rigorously adopt into every aspect of business life.

The Artemis & Apollo Group were very fortunate to hear Prof. David Whetham explore with us some of the principal reasons that ethical failure occurs.  He also shared with us the practical steps that military leaders take to prevent them from happening.

We also reviewed how the seven leadership behaviours listed below prove a useful framework for leaders from any organisation to consider to create the right environment and appropriate ethical climate for themselves and their people.

• Lead by example
• Encourage thinking
• Apply reward and discipline
• Demand high performance
• Encourage confidence in the team
• Recognise individual strengths and weaknesses
• Strive for team goals.

We will definitely be asking David to come and talk to us again in the future.

Today, Wednesday 19^th April we had an amazing session with Crown Media who put our delegates through a very special session on working with the media.

We are grateful to Sharon, Kitty and Ben for providing a ‘stretching’ and positive experience of being interviewed by specialist and experienced journalists.