The programme's objective is to engage young potential managers in the discussion of management issues, to develop new approaches, leadership skills and intercultural understanding and to become acquainted with the FIDIC activities through participation in the FIDIC Annual Conference.
 
Programme contents
 
The programme has an initial Internet-based component over a seven-month period prior to the FIDIC 2012 Seoul Conference. In connection with the conference, there will be two days sessions prior to the conference, and final presentations with participation by all other conference participants at conference workshops organized by the Young Professionals Management Training Programme, in particular a Future Leaders Workshop. These workshops will offer a general discussion and sharing of ideas and findings. The final outcome is a report for the programme. This report is normally presented at the Future Leaders Workshop.
 
The programme is tailor-made to the consulting industry, and an experienced senior consulting engineer acts as facilitator and is attached to the programme to secure timely progress and a high quality for inputs and outputs. FIDIC has established a Mentor Board for supervising and reviewing the programme.

Management topics will comprise some of the following types of issues:

 
■Growth and profit
■Development: new technologies, cultural changes, globalisation
■Ownership structures: partnership, employee owned, quoted shareholding and others
■Marketing of consulting services
■Organisation and human resources development.

As a starting point a number of thematic issues will be presented. These are based on working through moduioes of the FIDIC Business Practice Training Manual. Each issue will be debated by the participants over a given period, generally six weeks. Participants will be encouraged to present their own cases as an input to the process. For each theme a conclusion should be reached, with a "light" monitoring by the facilitator.

Key words for the process are: taking leadership, strategy, global perspective, change management, international networking.

The participants will meet shortly before and during the FIDIC Conference to discuss the conclusions reached. Furthermore, the facilitator is able to providing feed-back on the personal development of each participant. 

Registration for the 2012 programme 

 The number of participants in the FIDIC Young Professionals Management Training Programme is limited to 60, in three teams of 20. Participants should preferably be under 35 years of age and have some prior management experience. 

The fee is EUR 2,500.-, which includes all tuition materials and the fee for attending the FIDIC 2012 Annual Conference. If there are insufficient participants, FIDIC reserves the right to cancel the programme (registration fees will be refunded in full).

The deadline for registrations for participation in the programme is by 31st December  2011 (registration opens in October 2011). The starting date is early-February 2012 and the programme ends with the the FIDIC 2012 Seoul Conference (9-12 September 2012) .
 
Participants that register will be required to indicate a formal commitment to participating in all the programme's activities. This commitment would normally comprise a short statement (sent by email to FIDIC) of the reasons why a young professional has registered for the programme.
 
Payment for registration can be by credit card and bank transfer; registration is Online.
 
Organization
 
The programme is coordinated by Steen Frederiksen, FIDIC Coordinator, assisted by a Mentor Board:

• John Ritchie, Canada
• Ben Novak, Canada
• Robin Crouch, Germany
• Bayo Adeola, Nigeria

Themes
 
Summaries of the case study themes themes are distributed to participants at the start of the programme. For 2012, deadlines for completing the case studies are approximately 30 April 2012, 15 June 2012 and 15 August 2012. Themes for the cases studies are likely to be:

• Organization and human resources development
• Ownership structures
• Marketing of consulting services

Final exercise
 
The final exercise has yet to be decided. As an example, for previous programme, the final exercise was: "Present your vision of the consulting company of the future including all aspects of organisation, ownership and development, with the objective of creating a platform for business that easily adapts to new technologies, is a good place to work and develop individual skills, appeals to all client categories and is able to meet the challenges of globalisation".