You have recently been appointed to a trainee managerial position and selected for interview for an intensive management development training programme. You are pleased to have been invited for interview but unsure what to expect and nervous about your participation in the programme if selected.

✱ Explain fully how you can best prepare yourself for this development training programme.

✱ What questions might you expect to be asked?

✱ How would you explain benefits you have gained from your university course of study, including the balance between theory and practice?

✱ Detail the skills and abilities you would need to demonstrate at interview.

✱ What form of exercises, activities and assessments might you expect?

✱ How would you expect to benefit from the programme?

✱ How might you best attempt to apply what you have learned on the programme in your actual work situation?

Discussion

✱ Explain how you see the relationship between university education and employability, and between off-the-job learning and on-the-job experience.

✱ How would you attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of the programme?

✱ To what extent should management development be suited to the individual or geared towards the needs of the particular organisation?