Life Goals Planning and Interpersonal Skill Development: A Programme for Middle Managers in the British Civil Service

The purpose of this brief paper is to describe and evaluate our experience at the Edinburgh Centre of the Civil Service College in developing a one‐week middle management programme concerned with the interpersonal skills and life goals planning. This account details the process by which a conventional, lecture‐based short course on the behavioural sciences was transformed into a student‐directed workshop with two main objectives: