Success Stories
"MAP Assessment is a first-class management development system which has the benefit of being objective, and easy for participants to relate to. Client companies like the idea of their managers having a Personal Development Plan that they believe in."
"MAP also has the benefit that managers can receive confirmation about the aspects of management in which they excel, which makes MAP worthwhile for everyone – we want reinforcement of the things we are good at as well as conscious identification of our development needs."
Dennis Laverty - Licensed MAP Assessment Assessor, Inspired Learning.
Success Through Management Assessment
Over 150,000 people worldwide have been through MAP Assessment. In the UK over 14,000 people from organisations across the private and public sector have used MAP to help them realise their own and their organisations potential.
To help you to get a feel for the business benefits that MAP Assessment brings we have included a selection of success stories from organisations using MAP either on a standalone basis or as part of a highly targeted management development programme.
- Le Manoir Aux Quat Saison - Download PDF.
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MAP Assessment forms the basis for the development of all existing and potential managers at Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons. An integral part of the ‘Valuing Managers’ programme MAP Assessment helps to ensure the delivery of excellence at Le Manoir.
- British Racing School - Download PDF.
MAP Assessment plays a key role in the ‘Jockey Club Racecourses Academy’ management development programme. The academy provides a specialised training programme for selected individuals in key management positions within the organisation.
- Welsh Assembly Government - Download PDF.
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The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) began laying the foundations for management development in 2008 by funding a 12-month pilot project to diagnose skills gaps within the Welsh construction industry using MAP Assessment. Click the PDF to read the Training Journals WAG & MAP Assessment case study.
- Manchester City Council - Download PDF.
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Manchester City Council has been continuously developing and evolving the skills and management style of its managers since 1998 with the help of MAP Assessment. To date some 600 Council managers have undertaken MAP Assessment, benchmarking their competency against the thousands of other managers who have been through MAP.
- Sefton MBC - Download PDF.
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The challenge for Sefton MBC was to assess managerial and behavioural competence to make sure that training and development was effective for individuals and contributed to the council’s improved performance. MAP Assessment enabled Sefton MBC to exceed this challenge and now forms an integral part of their ILM Certificate in Leadership programme.
- Birmingham Museum - Download PDF.
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“Whether working in the public or private sector, there is an assumption that people in management positions have followed a development route that has equipped them with the skills and a qualification to manage. This is not always the case, and in my work with the managers of museums and galleries I selected MAP Assessment as a valid way of identifying managers existing skills and introducing proven, uniform management competencies”, Robert McDermid, Regional Skills Development Officer for Renaissance in the Regions.
- NPower - Download PDF.
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DPG Plc the national training & development specialists have worked with
the people development teams at npower’s Tyne House to develop and
deliver their new ILM accredited Level 3 Introductory Certificate in First Line
Management, incorporating MAP Assessment.“The programme has also helped npower’s Retail business by informing and influencing the development of our two new core programmes for first and second line managers – Initiate and Integrate – which will be available to up to 1200 managers in the business”, Michelle Todd-Davison, npower People Development Manager.

