02nd November 2009 - 04th November 2009
Leadership and Management in the Food Industry
FIRM PhD graduates are employed at senior level, not only in the food industry but also in the Health
Service Executive and the Food Safety sector. This module has been designed to help young graduates meet
the requirements of these roles.
This module will help PhD and MSc students develop skills in working within teams and working as a
leader, skills which will be needed whatever career path emerges for each graduate. Also included in this
module are management skills including management of your own career, project management and managing
people skills.
Topics included in this module include:
1: Corporate Management in Food Industry
- Financial Management,
- Increasing Consumer Loyality, Diversity,
- Supply and logistics Management,
- Acquiring and Developing Talent,
- Leadership and Team Development,
- Managing Change, transition and conflict
- Commercial awareness
2:Food Research and Development Management
• Making the transition from Academia to Industry successfully
• IP, Tech Transfer
• Product performance
• Troubleshooting
• Product and process improvement – considerations, decision making
• NPD
• Cost reduction programmes
• Project management
• FIRM, SFI, EU, HRB …..
• Designing research,
• Writing Grant Applications (estimates, deliverables, outcomes, staffing, consumables, overheads,
Audits)
• Project management
• Timelines(GANTT, stage gate)
• Differences between Academia and Industry
3: Leadership
• Knowing your strengths and weaknesses, what is your leadership style?
• Cultural differences and leadership
• Ethics and the moral leader: Organisational Politics and Business ethics
• Teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Influencing and persuading
• Listening and observing
• Managing meetings
• Personal Impact
• Successful negotiations
• Writing competitive presentations/documents
• Decision and information analysis
