Executive Mini MBA Accelerator

Agenda

During the Mini MBA, you will develop a broad range of business management knowledge and leadership thinking in the core areas of human resource management, finance, marketing, operations, creative thinking and strategy.

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Benefits

The Mini MBA will increase your confidence and your managerial abilities, particularly in terms of strategic delegation, deadline organisation, problem solving, change management, and team development.

Network with peers and share best practice

During your learning experience at our Mini MBA, you will be able to meet other like-minded professionals and develop new, beneficial connections. Following completion of your course, you will become part of an exclusive alumni, offering you access to an ever-growing community of current and future leaders.

Turn theory into practice

You will learn how to apply theories and best practices in your current role through simulations, role playing, case studies and discussions. The learning methods we use will enable you to apply business and management principles and theories directly into leadership practice and organisational policy-making

Enhance your career and your business

With the networking opportunities and advanced management skills included in the Mini MBA, you will be able to implement improvements in your workplace and proceed to senior positions.

Other benefits include:

• The essential theory, practice and techniques of an MBA condensed in to high quality short programme;
• Savings in your time and the huge costs involved in enrolling for a traditional MBA course;
• Guidance on your strategic planning with current tools, techniques and thinking;
• Improvement on the bottom line with your increased financial understanding;
• Exponential improvement in your leadership skills and personal confidence;
• Measurable results with your enhanced knowledge of key strategic marketing tactics;
• Success in the project you undertake with a greater understanding of how to take a project from start to completion successfully;
• Improvement on your ability to influence and impact colleagues and clients;
• Enhanced negotiation techniques and skills to increase your success in commercial agreements

Who Should Attend?

The Mini MBA Accelerator is designed for those with a minimum 3 years management experience and provides the core material expected from a high-quality MBA programme.

It is also appropriate for MBA graduates who would like a ‘refresher’ overview of core MBA subjects.

Accreditation

You can attend the Mini-MBA on an accredited and non-accredited basis

The Qualification

You can undertake the Mini MBA on an accredited basis, which on successful completion, will see you receive a PGCert in Business Administration (WBIS) from the University of Chester*

This Level 7 academic and work-based qualification is designed for senior people seeking to develop themselves as leaders and managers, who recognise they must satisfy various stakeholders and who want to invest in their own personal brand. They are looking to make the best use of resources, understand the need to innovate and optimise performance. They may also have to present arguments for change, construct business cases, lead change implementation and evaluate the impact of that change.

Results for the learner

• Know how to use an enquiry led evidence based approach to develop your leadership and management capability;
• Develop and enhance your personal brand;
• Develop, implement and evaluate high-level, strategic, business cases;
• Embed your leadership and management development in real work.

Impact for your employer

• Senior leaders and managers who have the ability to think and act strategically;
• Senior leaders and managers who make informed evidence based decisions;
• Motivated staff who can create and maintain a high-performance culture;
• Senior team members who are self-aware and take responsibility for self-development.

Assessment

• Learners will complete 3 assignments in order to achieve this qualification;
• Conduct top level organisational analysis, resulting in a research proposal for an empirical study into a leadership and management issue within the delegate’s professional environment.
• A robust data driven enquiry within the delegate’s professional environment that adds value through active participation in a learning community, and an evaluation of how this enquiry has added value to self and the organisation.

Student Support

You will be provided with:

• One to one telephone tutorial opportunities (as many as the student requires; typically, this would involve 3 one-hour tutorials);
• Group tutorials through conference calls;
• Monthly webinar events.

We encourage learners to engage with as many tutorials and learning opportunities as possible.

The blended learning method has been shown to provide flexible, student centred delivery and a high pass rate.