Cutting edge leadership training and education that supports successful military operations and government departments
The Defence Leadership and Business Group (DLaB) is made up of three departments that contribute to the development of the leadership, business, and spiritual ‘edge’ required to maintain UK defence’s strategic and operational advantage:
- Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre
- Defence Leadership Centre
- Concepts, Research and Development
- Business Skills Centre
DLaB is a key component in the MOD’s defence engagement process providing:
- the development and delivery of educational outcomes to enable defence’s people to lead, manage and develop themselves, their teams, and their organisations
- defence leaders with the skills and experience required to tackle complex issues and drive exemplar behaviours and standards that will be role modelled and championed by all leaders throughout defence
- the employment of a research-led, transformative, learner-centric educational approach that fosters collaborative networks beyond the formal learning environment
- engagement with defence, government, academia, industry, and international partners as ‘thought leaders’ in the fields of defence’s leadership, business, and spiritual arenas
DLaB is committed to providing transformative educational outcomes required by defence’s own people, including cross-government and international partners.
The Armed forces Chaplaincy Centre (AFCC) is the principal ethical and spiritual training provider within the MOD.
Recognised as a centre of excellence for the resourcing of defence chaplaincies and world faith engagement, AFCC is the only UK defence institution dedicated to the study of how religion and faith interacts with contemporary conflicts and international relations.
Welcoming chaplains and academics from around the world, AFCC delivers training to approximately 2,500 course members each year.
By fostering an inclusive and reflective learning community, AFCC elicits professional, personal, cultural, spiritual, and cognitive diversity, preparing people to be comfortable with uncertainty.
Training is delivered through a portfolio of professional qualifying courses, supported by a diverse range of continuous education and professional development.
Concepts, Research and Development (CRD) is a small multi-disciplinary team of occupational psychologists, researchers, academics and subject matter experts who develop the ‘conceptual edge’ for success on operations and in government.
CRD author ‘Leadership in Defence’, the MOD’s doctrine on leadership, which is underpinned by a rolling programme of contemporary research and conceptual development.
CRD reaches into and influences the highest levels of the defence and security sectors across government, as well as internationally via partner nations including Five Eyes and NATO. CRD also chairs the bi-annual Defence Leadership Network.
The Defence Leadership Centre (DLC) delivers training and education to develop the ‘leadership edge’ for success on operations and in government.
Offering a diverse and flexible portfolio of residential, blended, and online leadership and management courses, DLC enables defence’s senior leaders to engage with the increasingly volatile, complex and ambiguous operating environment.
Through targeted learning in diversity and inclusion and mental fitness and resilience, the DLC’s multi-disciplinary team is committed to developing leaders who are agile and integrative, able to leverage relationships, connections, and technologies to succeed on operations and in leadership across government.
DLC delivers training and education to approximately 5,000 students each year, with a further 85,000 benefiting from indirect training and education.
The Business Skills Centre is responsible for the Managing the Defence Enterprise (MDE) series. MDE is a suite of online courses hosted on the Defence Learning Environment, that provides up to advanced level training to develop or improve business acumen helping people to make sound judgements in business situations, operations and strategies. It offers essential knowledge and skills to contribute effectively to helping run the business of defence.
