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Lincoln Business School Located on the stunning modern Brayford Pool campus in the heart of the historic city of Lincoln, Lincoln Business School is culturally diverse, internationally minded, and committed to providing an educational experience that enhances careers and enables individuals and businesses to create successful futures. We are ambitious and determined to make a difference to society through our innovative engaged approaches to research and education.
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tudents think Lincoln is great. Our community of students rate us as a Top School because we care about them and about their future. In the latest National Student Survey results (out August 2010), Accounting was the UK Number 1 for student satisfaction, Tourism and Marketing both came second in the UK, and Business and Management both came 5th – that's out of all the institutions in the UK who offer those subjects. We introduce our students to real world situations with tutors, employers and entrepreneurs to create knowledge and enjoy tangible experiences through projects and professional activity. Professional managers develop global perspectives at Lincoln. Our 21st Century Business School is a learning environment in which business leaders, policy makers and managers can develop their capacity to create sustainable futures in responsible ways. We facilitate leadership and management development through events, short courses, work-based degrees, Masters Programmes and PhDs. Organisations work with us to develop their talent and create their futures. Our enduring relationships with business clients are based on our flexible and responsive approach. Together we have created inspirational specialist programmes for public service management, the NHS, Royal Air Force, the Glass Industry, Food and Agriculture Industries and Engineering. Our approach to knowledge creation helps clients to develop strategically, solve problems, create opportunities and manage change. Smaller businesses discover possibilities with us. Our forward-thinking work with entrepreneurs and small enterprises appreciates their uniqueness. We aim to help each individual enterprise thrive through innovation, entrepreneurship and responsible management. We measure our success through our clients’ achievements and we also add value through our networks of businesses, business support and professional organisations. In all our endeavours we create knowledge and our research is recognised for its international quality and excellence. We engage with policy and practice to innovate and improve business and society through funded research projects, knowledge partnerships and our community of researchers and doctoral students. We co-create value by working in partnership to research real world issues; responsibly shaping sustainable futures.
Lincolnshire Leadership and Management Centre The new Lincolnshire Leadership and Management Centre (LLMC) is a custom designed, visually distinctive facility on the ground floor of the new Faculty of Business and Law building on the Brayford Pool campus of the University of Lincoln. The University of Lincoln has been a major resource for Leadership and Management education and engaged research for more than twenty years. Our primary aim is to enhance the Leadership and Management capabilities that drive the business performance and profitability of the Lincolnshire’s businesses in order to stimulate economic growth and competitiveness.
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At the core of the Lincolnshire Leadership and Management Centre operation is a client-focused portfolio of programmes, seminars and events that establish the Centre as a significant and credible high levels skills development provider. The aim is for the LLMC to support a comprehensive range of programmes with postgraduate and/or professional accreditation and qualifications, as required including learning packages designed for continuous professional development, work-based, distance learning, programmes offering flexibility and recognition of prior experience and application, and bespoke programmes in management, leadership and entrepreneurship skills. The LLMC is situated in central Lincoln on the Brayford Pool campus providing an excellent meeting point for business of all forms. The refurbished Business and Law building offers the perfect venue for lectures, conferences and leadership and management events featuring the latest audio and visual equipment. Adjacent to the LLMC and its Harvard Lecture Theatre and Seminar suites, a coffee lounge offers informal surroundings in which to meet colleagues and discuss events. To complement these facilities there is access to a range of facilities including the University of Lincoln award-winning library, located adjacent with an extensive collection of information and knowledge sources includes leading management books, journals, magazines and electronic resources with Internet workstations. For more information about Lincoln Business School and the Lincolnshire Leadership and Management Centre, please contact LBS@lincoln.ac.uk or visit our website www.lincoln.ac.uk.