Ten steps to self improvement

Self improvement is a difficult thing, especially if you strive to be more stupid. But there is a course for every horse and here we profile our top ten alternative management courses:

1. Be Brilliant – Clearly you are brilliant but for those of your colleagues who aren't perhaps you could recommend The Art of Being Brilliant a one day course for people who want to do things better.

2. Act stupid – Managers are taught how to discover their inner clown, perform to an audience and live in the moment on the How to be Stupid course. What do you mean, your boss doesn't need to go?

3. Discover your spiritual side - Dr Deepak Chopra offers spiritual wisdom for senior executives on Kellogg School of Management’s The Soul of Leadership course. Omm.

4. Change the world – The London Business Forum is hosting an afternoon with Sir Bob Geldolf entitled Global Leadership and Change: Lessons In How To Change The World . Go meet the man himself.

5. Drink champagne – Reims Management School runs a wide variety of courses for managers and vineyard owners about the champagne industry. Hic.

6. Indulge your inner thesp – Take 10, the Leadership as Performance Art course at Chicago School of Business’s London campus teaches middle to senior managers how to improve their effectiveness by learning about performance, acting and directing.

7. Be an elite athlete at work – The Athlete @ Work course leaders adapt elite sports people’s preparation and motivation techniques for the workplace. On your marks...

8. Lead like a king – Whether it is Inspirational leadership based on Shakespeare’s Henry V, Influential Leadership based on Julius Caesar or Courageous Leadership which takes it’s cue from Macbeth, there is a course for you.

9. Think creatively – leave your left-brained logical ways behind and liberate your lateral thinking on the Right Brain Coaching course. Learn how to use random words and pictures to generate ideas or brain-storm effectively.

10. Step into the hot seat – Don’t Panic is a short customised one-to-one course for people who find themselves stuck with making a major presentation or big speech at short notice.

If there's none here that you fancy check out our list of 25 alternative management courses; or tell us about some of the more unusual courses you've heard about.