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Videos

  • An insight on our programmes

    • European Programmes

      Increasingly, in a world of global challenges, it is through working together with European partners, within the framework of the Union, that the UK can most effectively achieve its aims. Adam Steinhouse, Head of School of European Studies explains the wide range of EU learning and development available at the National School of Government and Romanian delegate, Noemi, share her experience at the School.

    • Introduction to Project Management

      The government must improve its performance in programme and project management if planned improvements to public services are to become a reality. This programme gives staff an understanding of the implications of structured project management as well as an insight into the techniques used. Delegates and trainers tell us more about it.

    • Top Management Programme

      • TMP celebrated its 21st anniversary in 2007 by going global. This very successful programme aimed at Senior Leaders will help them face today's challenges within a global context. David Sweeney, Head of the Centre for Strategic Leadership and Sir Victor Adebowale, chairman of Turning Point, explains how the programme contributes to a greater public service.

    • Finance for non-financial Managers

      • How to best manage a budget? How to put a balance sheet together? Finance does not seem to appear as dull as it sounds to the 'Finance for non-financial managers' delegates. They testify in front of the camera.

  • Sunningdale Institute Briefings

    • Leadership Management and Command: Re-thinking Decision Making

      An interview with Professor Keith Grint from Cranfield University, co-editor of the journal Leadership and author of a plethora of notorious books and articles on leadership. His most recent book: Leadership: Limits and Possibilities. 18/1/07

    • Discovering the DNA of Failure Free Working: The Evidence

      Professor David Tranfield, Cranfield School of Management, is pioneering an approach to 'evidence based management'. 19/2/07

    • Trust and Judgement in Decision Making - a Key Challenge for Leadership

      Professor Gillian Stamp, director of the Brunel Institute of Organisation and Social Studies, explains how a leader should trust and encourage his colleagues to use their judgments and to have faith in his or hers. 25/4/08

    • Creating Resiliant Leaders

      Professor Binna Kandola is an occupational psychologist with a particular interest in the psychological profile of leaders. His research asks if, by looking at the family background, education, career and life choices made by people in positions of leadership, it is possible to build a picture of a 'type', or a range of characteristics that typify the sorts of people who become leaders. 8/8/07

    • Managing Workplace Stress, Improving Well Being at Work

      Professor Cary Cooper CBE, founding chairman of the Sunningdale Institute, Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor in Organisational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School, explains the main causes of stress in the workplace and explores way to tackle that problem. 25/4/08

    • Engaging for Performance

      Would your staff go the extra mile in delivering your organisation's objectives? Is there any correlation between organisational performance and employee engagement? Professor David MacLeod, author of The Extra Mile, offers his view on a subject with growing importance in the private as well as in the public sector. 25/4/08

    • Resolving Conflicts Within Organisations

      Conflicts within organisations reduce performance, says Baroness Rennie Fritchie, co-author of Resolving Conflicts in Organisations. She establishes the difference between 'hot' and 'cold' conflicts and investigates the best ways to solve them. 25/4/08

  • Whitehall Innovation Hub

    • Why innovation now?

      Innovation is critical during periods of economic decline - innovative responses are now requires not only by local public services but also from Government. The National School of Government's Innovation Hub acts as a focal point for innovation across Whitehall to help face those huge challenges.