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Executive Mini MBA Accelerator

Delivered in partnership with our executive education partner, In Professional Development

Session One: Being a Strategic Leader in 2023
  • Being a strategic leader and decision-maker in a VUCAH (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous, and Hyper-Connected) World.
  • Identify the key challenges and opportunities of leadership today.
  • Examine current and emerging Leadership theories, including Authentic and Distributed Leadership.
  • Developing Emotional, Social, and Cultural intelligence as a leader.
  • Building and leading high performing, inclusive, and psychologically safe, teams.
  • Managing stress and building personal resilience in yourself and your colleagues
  • Creating a learning culture, raising the bar, and leading others through coaching and mentoring.
  • Engaging in reflective practice, and the benefits of structured reflection.
Session Two: Delivering Excellence in Operations, Processes & Projects
  • The science of management, and it’s role in today’s organisation.
  • Understanding the concept of operational excellence and its benefits.
  • Different project management approaches and identifying how they support organisational goals.
  • Linking operational excellence to strategic objectives and customer value.
  • Leading the development of a continuous improvement strategy.
  • Techniques for mapping and analysing organisational processes.
  • Creativity, and developing innovative solutions.
  • Strategic process improvement and system-thinking principles.
  • Designing and implementing solutions, whilst manging the risks of innovation.
  • Agility, and being responsive to change.
Session Three: Organisational Culture, Strategy and Management
  • Understanding the overall role of strategic management and leadership
  • Defining strategy, and how it relates to operational work,
  • Culture and strategy; how organisational culture impacts the effectiveness of strategy.
  • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) responsibility – ethical decision making, sustainability and social impact
  • Creative and analytical strategy; creating a Vision and identifying critical organisational challenges.
  • The external environment and aligning organisational goals with market trends, social change, and customers.
  • How to get the best from using strategic planning frameworks and tools.
  • Communicating strategy and engaging key stakeholders.
  • Identifying the change management implications of a strategy and developing a plan for change.
  • Develop a strategic solution to overcome a complex and real organisational challenge; every participant will leave with a strategic plan to apply in their organisation.
Session Four: Financial Management, Budgeting and Analytics
  • Financial accounting
  • Management and cost accounting
  • Investment decisions
  • Value-based management
  • Financial decision-making in uncertain times
  • Data-driven decision-making and analytics for business insights
Session Five: Strategic Marketing Dynamics
  • Exploring and developing the marketing plan and strategy
  • Examining value and market share – data and research-based approach
  • Critiquing the market research process
  • Customer relationship management and brand loyalty
  • Developing a brand personality and the universal truth
  • The analysis of consumer and industrial buyer behaviour and the purchasing decision-making process
  • Public affairs and stakeholder communications
  • Evaluating current social media and digital marketing trends and best practice
  • Working within data protection legislation and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • Understanding ESG when making strategic marketing decisions
  • The examination of global marketing principles
  • Developing strategies for international marketing

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