Made Not Born sponsors award at this year’s Belfast Telegraph Business Awards

The Made Not Born programme from the Department for Employment and Learning wants to educate businesses about management skills so that a firm’s productivity and prospects can be boosted.
The sponsor of the Excellence in the Development of Management and Leadership at this year’s Belfast Telegraph Business Awards, Made Not Born, runs events and programmes promoting management skills.
Mervyn Langtry, the head of DEL’s management and development branch, said good management skills can be learned and that good managers are “made, not born”.
Mr Langtry said: “Sponsoring the Excellence in Management category at the Business Awards is an opportunity to acknowledge the achievements of Northern Ireland SMEs in enhancing the management skills of their managers — skills which are crucial to raising the productivity of the companies themselves and also Northern Ireland plc thereby helping to make us more competitive in the global marketplace.”
He urged interested companies to attend one of Made Not Born’s roadshow events. “There you can observe and hear about good practice from renowned management speakers. We bring together a range of speakers who are interesting and provide different insights into leadership management and are able to change what people think about leadership and management.
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