Mini MBA – The Business Manager Program

Mini MBA – The Business Manager Program

OBJECTIVES

• practical leadership tools and techniques that can be applied immediately
• successful leadership approaches from the best-of-the-best world-class organizations
• how to apply the 10 most powerful leadership competencies for greater success
• effective strategic planning for leaders: a step-by-step process
• critical components of succession planning
• leader’s guide to career planning
• authentic coaching guidelines for turn-of-the-century leadership
• managing knowledge and human capital
• improved ways leaders are measuring performance by using performance builders
• Consider the current state of the international environment
• Analyze the impact of cultural diversity on business
• Determine how to deal effectively with other cultures
• Examine global management best practices
• Recap on the fundamentals of international economics and Trade
• Reflect on the potential impact of current global trends

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• seeking to maintain their skills at a cutting edge level
• responsible for dealing with people of other cultures
• concerned with managing the impact of change

COURSE OUTLINE

Leadership Compentencies

• understanding the power of leadership competencies
• incorporating leadership competencies into your organization
• 10 most powerful leadership competencies
• developing your own competency model
• applying competencies in your organization
• aligning competencies to yield greater business results

Strategic Leadership Planning

• strategic planning step-by-step when goal setting isn’t enough
• creating your own strategic plan to use immediately
• four-part blueprint for strategic planning
• implementing your plan for optimum effectiveness

Succession Planning and Career Planning

• applying critical components of leadership succession
• attracting and retaining top talent
• creating leaders from within
• building your dream team
• developing careers
• learning lab: real-world best practices exercise

Coaching at all levels – Becoming an Influential Leader

• using primary leadership styles of effective coaching
• developing authentic coaching guidelines
• using 11 principles for coaching success
• implementing a four-step plan for developing your influence
• expanding the sphere of influence
• learning lab: real-world coaching best practices exercise

Managing knowledge and better ways to measure performance

• creating a world-class learning environment
• understanding the future of learning in the organization
• realizing the importance of 21st Century training and what has to happen first
• Deming’s take on performance appraisals: performance appraisal vs. performance building
• evaluating current performance appraisals and improving them greatly new and better ways for measuring performance you never thought possible

Analyzing the International environment

• The Changing Map of the World Economy
• The Importance of Developing economies
• The future of the United States
• Prospects for the European Union
• The emergence of BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India & China)
• Developments in South America

Dealing with diverse cultures on a Global basis

• Key elements of national culture
• The impact of culture on behaviour
• Understanding cultural differences
• Managing cultural differences
• Communicating across cultures
• Analyzing national cultures

Best practices in International Management

• Understanding growth and national competitiveness
• Pressure on organisations and the different forms of globalisation
• Globalisation Vs Localisation – the challenge
• Managing transnational operations – its impact on existing processes
• Framework for developing a global strategy
• Creating a high performance culture
• Case studies of international Best practise

 Review of international economic trends and trade

• Recap of the fundamentals of International economics
• Understanding of International Trade
• The role of WTO and regional trade organisations
• The implications of the Doha Round, Tokyo Protocol and others
• The role of Sovereign funds

Looking into the global future

• The potential impact of new technologies
• The implications of changing social and political structures
• Trends in the world financial system
• Supply and demands trends in the energy markets
• The implications of a multi-polar world economy
• Capitalizing on opportunities
• Developing strategic capabilities