You are the Leadship development Manager of one of the country's leading MNCs supply a diverse range of electronic, analytical and computational products and services. It has always been charaterized by high innovation and quality and for its postive values related to managinh its people. Design a company-wide leadership development programme aimed at senior middle managers, age 30-40 with ten years or more of service in the company, a technical backgound and educations, and responsible for 20-50 people. Promotion prospects are decreasing, so it is important that this programme is not seen as a promotions ticket but a way of improving managerial competence in current roles.

Key criteria for the progamme are:

1. It must be business-foucsed, cost effective,have the involvement of senior management, and refelct corporate

2 It must be capable of being delivered by each of the company's regional training teams, and within their resources

3 It must emphasise manger's responsibility for self-development, and stimulated them to a real communicate in the respect.

4 Teamwork must be a key feature so that participants learn from and support each other in the learining processes.

5 The programme must focus on making the target population more effective in their in their current role.

Please address the following in your report

1. Analyse the main contextual influences that will shape the leadership development programme design that you propose

2. Specify the leraning objectives for the programme

3. Propose a framework for the design and delivery of the progamme imdicating the key phases; the menu of learning strategies;the duration of the programme and the management of the programme

4. Devise an evaluation strategy indicatiing the benchmarks that different stakeholders may use and the evalution methology that you consider appropriate

5. It must have a national focus