Successful Management for Business Achievement - The 5 Day MBA

Overview

Course duration: 5 days.

This intensive course is designed to stretch individuals and equip them with the skills, knowledgeand confidence to be more effective in a fast moving and complex business environment.

It will help to improve effective management skills, withina global and strategic context, drawing on current issues and the changing economic and competitive landscape during the sessions.

This course offers departmental and functional managers tried and tested models, concepts and tools to confidently address the dilemmas faced in today’s rapidly changing world.

Is it right for me?

Suitable for departmental and functional managers who are preparing for, or already in, a senior and strategic management position. It is assumed that participants have some knowledge of strategic management and the challenges faced.

What will I learn?

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Have an understanding of the strategies with the Information Systems and Human Resources functions.
• Interpret and question standard financial statements and situations.
• Define the key elements of strategic management.
• Apply the concepts, tools and analytical techniques used in strategic management.
• Understand the issues and dilemmas now facing organisations at a strategic level.
• Be familiar with the principles of marketing, their use and application.
• Devise or participate in a strategic review of an organisation.
• Recognise the key issues involved in change management.
• Define the leader’s role in today’s increasingly complex business environment.

What will it cover?

Information Systems (IS)

• Role and scope of IS within the business organisation
• Strategic alignment between information systems and the organisation and the challenges inherent in IS development and implementation
• Current platforms within IS
• Electronic business models and strategies
• The broader social and ethical impacts of information systems

Finance

• The two categories of accounting and how they relate to one another and to your organisation
• Work with and interpret organisational performance and cash flow statements
• The significance of financial ratios
• How budgets and budgeting reflect both the operational context of the organisation and show commitment to investors
• The importance investment decision making and the types of costs and methods of recovery

Human Resource Management

• Understanding what the difference is between transactional and transformational HR
• How an effective HR function can greatly support the company's strategy
• HR's ongoing role in Talent Management - what sets performing companies apart from others
• Comparative approaches to human resource management and the management of the HR function
• Labour as a commodity - the role ofinternal and external labour markets

Strategy

• Strategy and the importance of the strategic management process in achieving sustainable competitive advantage
• Strategic models to address the micro and macro environments
• International strategic management and the competitive advantage of co-operative and alliance strategies
• Cultural diversity and its implication for strategic management
• Managing strategic change and the challenge it provides for organisations including dealing with uncertainty

Marketing

• Marketing as influenced by internal and external factors such as competitors, political, social, technological and economic trends
• Understanding your customers, competitors, buyers and suppliers
• Be aware of what factors influence determining marketing audiences
• The differences between the global and the local consumer and global and local markets and their impact on marketing
• Marketing as an integrative process which must communicate effectively and work jointly with company strategy towards achieving competitive advantage

Leadership

• Understanding different leadership styles
• Be aware of your own communications styles and how to flex it in your communications with others
• How leaders make meaning with their messages and influence communications and how to be emotionally intelligent
• Leading in the current climate including cross functional teamwork and global cultures
• Leading change and how organisations respond to a changing environment

Personal Development

• Developing your strategic skills and competencies on a specific business project or plan
• developing a personal skill or behaviour that you have identified you want to be more effective with
• Personal action plan