Henley Business School Announce A Competition To Win A Full Scholarship, Worth Up To £17,900

Henley Business School

Henley Business School is delighted to announce a competition to win a full scholarship, worth up to £17,900, for the Henley MA Leadership.

The winner will receive a fully-funded, part-time place worth up to £17,900 on the MA Leadership programme. Starting in June 2017, this scholarship is designed to offer practical support for aspiring leaders, currently in employment, who are looking to develop modern leadership skills.

To enter, you need to provide three things:

    A 500-word opinion piece on the topic “leadership and management – the challenges you face”.
    A 100 word-statement saying why you should be considered for the programme.
    A current CV.

The judges will be looking for entries that demonstrate innovative, insightful thinking on the differences between leadership and management and the specific challenges facing 21st-century leaders in the participants’ own sector or industry.

Full details of how to enter are below. The closing date for entries is midnight on 14 March 2017. A panel of Henley Business School faculty and members of the Henley MA leadership advisory board will judge the entries. The winner will be announced by 31 March 2017.

Everyone who enters the competition will be eligible for a 10% discount on the MA leadership programme beginning in June 2017.
What is the MA leadership programme?

The Henley Business School MA leadership programme is a part-time course developed following extensive consultation with leaders and managers from a wide range of organisations, including large corporates, SMEs, public sector, government and third sector bodies.

The aim of the programme is to develop leaders with the skills necessary to address the many complex and difficult problems facing organisations today. Leaders are often put in a position where there is no right answer and they need to choose from options that all have a downside.

Leadership today is complex, technical, global and virtual. Many organisations now have models of shared leadership and distributed leadership, rather than just a few leaders at the top of a hierarchic organisation. This programme will appeal to people now taking leadership responsibilities, even if they are not officially called a leader. They may have recently moved into a department manager role, or lead a new initiative or change programme. They may be project managers leading and delivering projects to meet new organisational need or people setting up and running small businesses. This programme is for anyone facing the challenge of leading people to deliver new or changed outcomes.

The programme is structured over 24 months to allow programme members to continue working in full-time employment while studying and to connect their learning to their own organisation as well as to current global and organisational issues.
What are the judges looking for?

Entries will be judged on four criteria:

    Clear description of leadership and management challenges. The judges will look for a succinct description with interesting insights and thoughtful observation.
    Good use of examples. Please include interesting, real-life examples to highlight specific challenges in your sector and organisation.
    Why me? Please give the judges excellent reasons why you should take up this place, including evidence of your drive and ambition and what you have learned from previous experience.
    Additional information. If you wish, you may provide extra information about your personal motivation for wanting this place and the benefit you would gain from it.

Want to find out more?

Henley Business School will be hosting a breakfast briefing on the MA Leadership in central London on Tuesday 7 March, 2017. Visit our webpage for further information and to register your attendance. Places are limited and offered on a first come, first served basis.
Competition terms and conditions

1. This competition is open to anyone who is eligible for the Henley Business School MA Leadership programme – please see website for full conditions of entry but a minimum five years’ management experience or first degree plus three years’ management experience is required. Employees of Guardian Professional Networks, Henley Business School or University of Reading, their agents or anyone else professionally associated with the competition are not eligible. Previous applicants are welcome to reapply.

2. All information detailing how to enter this competition forms part of these terms and conditions. It is a condition of entry that all rules are accepted as final and that the entrant agrees to abide by these rules. Submission of an entry will be taken to mean acceptance of these terms and conditions.

3. To enter this competition, entrants must submit their essay by email to exec@henley.ac.uk . Entrants must also provide the following information:

    CV
    Forename
    Surname
    Job role
    Organisation
    Email
    Telephone

All elements of an entry must be in English and the essay must be no more than 500 words long. In addition entrants should provide 50-100 words on why they should win the scholarship and a current CV. Please remain within the word count – entries that exceed the word counts will not be considered. Entries will not be returned.

4. All entries must be received by midnight on Tuesday 14 March, 2017.

5. All entries submitted must be the work of the individual submitting them and must not have been published elsewhere or have won a prize in any other competition. It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that their essay does not infringe the copyright of any third party or any laws.

6. Copyright in all essays submitted for this competition remains with the respective entrants. However, in consideration of their providing the competition, each entrant grants a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual licence to Henley Business School to feature any or all of the submitted essays in any of their publications, their websites and/or in any promotional material connected to this competition without payment to the entrant. The individuals responsible for any essays so featured will be fully credited.

7. Only one entry per person. Late, illegible, incomplete, defaced or corrupt entries will not be accepted. No responsibility can be accepted for lost entries and proof of transmission will not be accepted as proof of receipt. Entries must not be sent through agencies or third parties.

8. Up to 10 entrants will be shortlisted from all entries received by the Henley Business School MA Leadership programme director. Shortlisted entrants shall be those whose essay displays the most original and exceptional thinking.

9. Shortlisted entries will go before the judging panel who will decide the winner. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

10. The winning entrant shall win a full bursary to take a place on the Henley Business School MA Leadership programme commencing 4 June 2017. Full details of the programme can be found at www.henley.ac.uk/MALeadership

11. The winner shall be notified by Friday 31 March 2017.

12. In the event of the winner being unable to commence the course, Henley Business School will offer the prize to the next entrant on the shortlist, selected in accordance with these terms and conditions. Should the winner withdraw from the course after commencement, Henley Business School reserves the right to offer the prize to the next entrant, as above, or to withdraw the prize. This decision will be dependent on how much of the bursary remains unused.

13. Everyone who enters the competition will be entitled to a 10% fee reduction on the MA Leadership beginning in June 2017. Please note that this reduction applies only to the stages you commit to at this point. If you decide to do only Stage 1 your fee reduction will apply to that and not to other stages booked at a later date.

14. No travel, accommodation or incidental expenses are payable to the winner.

15. The winner may be required to take part in publicity.

16. The winner’s name and county may be disclosed to anyone who writes within one month after the published closing date, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, to MA Leadership Winner, Executive Education., Henley Business School, Greenlands, Henley on Thames, RG9 3AU.

17. The prizes as described are available on the date of publication. All elements of the prize are non-transferable and there are no cash alternatives.

18. Events may occur that render the competition itself or the awarding of the prize impossible due to reasons beyond the control of the Promoter and accordingly the Promoter may at its absolute discretion vary or amend the promotion and the entrant agrees that no liability shall attach to the Promoter as a result thereof.