Management Apprenticeship - Level 7 (Day 5) Reviews

Loving the course and learning lots. Only challenges are having to search around for the info I am looking for. Having three email accounts and two Teams accounts- then meetings on Zoom rather than Teams is a lot! But it’s all doable.

The morning session was long, an earlier break would have been betted

NA

Pace was fine, enough time for discussion.

Another good day. Found the AI session especially interesting.

I am really enjoying learning from the other course delegates and seeing their approach to the tasks that we are undertaking during the day. Also good to see that we are all facing similar challenges in our approach to leadership and managing the day job.

AI and risk management felt less obviously connected overall to self management and more like topics from a more general leadership programme than previous sessions. Maybe could have done with more explicit connection from the facilitators to make the links clearer? AI session was interesting but felt a bit conceptual for those considering this stuff for the first time. Where would one start?! Felt a bit like he came to share his world view rather than engage with the group where we are all at. Could we have covered the basics of risk management and then looked at the risks (or common perceived risks) associated with making the shift to self management to make the link clearer? I was tired by this point but felt like a mix of this, and talking about how to do risk management in a self-managed org and didn't feel like we had time to do either justice in a way that left me clear on what I could do with it (and I work with risk a fair amount already).

I have loved the overall course so far, but found risk really hard to get enthused about - though realise it's critical to the qualification. Brendans' moving talk of Grenfell aside, I felt that the connection with SMOs was too tenuous.