Mini MBA

Course details

The Mini MBA education is based on e-learning combined with six exclusive training days at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Riyadh plus a final online exam. It focuses on the key topics and management disciplines of the MBA curriculum. The education offers greater knowledge of the major management fields - including leadership, management strategies, communication, business essentials, human resources, business psychology, international business, and market understanding.

The goal of the Mini MBA is to strengthen your career as a manager and to enable your business to reach even greater results as an effect of your improved competences.

Course Outline

The six programme modules are at MBA level and include the following:

Module 1: Human Resources Management and Psychology

This module provides you with a solid theoretical and practical knowledge of human resources management, psychology, communication and competence development. Consequently, it strengthens you as an HR Manager.

This module includes:

• HR and Personnel policy, staff planning
• Competency development and management
• Employee development and leadership development
• Motivation, work and organisational psychology
• Employee development & HRD
• Staff behaviour patterns
• Conflicts and conflict management
• Organisation and human resource management
• Cooperative relationships and motivation
• Mediation and conflict management
• Performance review
• Completion of structured interviews
• Interview skills
• Active listening and body language
• Interview exercises
• Group processes, team building and communication
• Advanced Strategy and Global Management
• Business Ethics and CSR
• Leadership, Culture and Negotiation
• Sales and Service Management
• Etc.

Module 2: Change Management

Improve your change management skills with practical tools and enable yourself to turn the challenges of changes into business opportunities and your ability to meet change from a practical approach. This module focuses on turning your awareness to your role as a change manager and enables you to acquire an understanding of the dynamics, psychology and cycle of changes.

Module 2 focuses on the managerial, psychological and communicative mechanisms related to changes including:

• Business Process Reengineering
• Mergers
• Change Projects
• Change Targets
• Change Management Tools
• Change Management as a Strategy
• Change Management and Communication
• The Strategic Change Process
• The Process of Mergers
• Resistance to Change
• Linking Theory with Practice
• Kotter’s Model of Change Management
• Change Communication: How to Motivate
• Different types of Reactions Related to Change
• Leading People & Organisations
• Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• International Business Law
• Etc.

This module includes extra sections with tools and methods within advanced Change Management, restructurings, mergers and layoffs.

Module 3: Business Development and Strategy

This module focuses on modern management theory and management as an independent profession, including a general understanding of how you work strategically in the current complex market situation.

You will be able to master selected analysis tools aimed at working with operational strategy in your daily work as a manager. Furthermore, you will gain an insight into how you as a manager can link organisational strategy with your daily management tasks. This module includes:

• The Role of the Manager, Tasks and Challenges
• Working with Strategies In General
• The Analysis Tools and "handles" of Operational Strategy
• Strategic Overview
• Employee, Customer, Balance
• Implementation of the Business Strategy
• Integrated Business Management in a Strategic Perspective
• Customer Focus
• Leadership Methods for the Experienced Manager
• Commitment and Motivation
• Evaluation of Management Efforts
• Objectives – Strategies and Tools
• Success as a Strategist and a Manager
• Quantitative Analysis
• International Macro Economics
• Governance and Business Ethics
• Managerial Finance
• Etc.

The module covers extra sections with management tools and methods from the world of psychology including courses in advanced behavioural psychology, organisational psychology, teambuilding, coaching, supervision, mentoring, etc.

Module 4: Value-Creating Management

This module includes:

• The Value-Creating Manager
• The New Economy
• Methodological Understandings
• Strategic Human Resource Management
• The Culture, Climate and Structure of the Organization
• The New Roles of the Manager

Coordinated Management of Meaning:

• CMM-Theory
• Communication and Interaction
• Communication and Coordination
• Knowledge sharing, Communities of Practice
• Action Learning
• Team Management
• Systemic Understanding of the Organization
• Optimizing the Potential Action of the Manager
• Understanding HRM
• Group Dynamics and Conflict Management
• Dilemma Learning and Understanding

Module 5: Performance Management

This Module Includes:

• Reward Management
• Charismatic Management
• Situational Management
• Value-based Management
• Loyalty-based Management
• Appreciative Management
• Transformational Management
• Holistic Management

Measurement and Evaluation:

• The Balanced Scorecard Model
• The Centralization / Decentralization Dilemma
• Critical Success Factors
• Ongoing Implementation
• Etc.

Module 6: Leadership and Empowerment

This module includes:

• Management of Organisational Change
• Targeted Organisational Development
• Organisational Learning
• Development of Knowledgessharing Strategies
• Communities of Practice

Strategic Development:

• Coaching
• Emotional Intelligence
• Stronger Networks
• Creativity and Innovation. R & D.
• The Developmental Psychology of the Manager
• Advanced Interview Techniques
• The Hidden Commands
• Crises and Conflicts
• Mediation and Conflict Management Methods
• Narrative Methods
• Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication Training

Objectives and Results:

• Follow-Up on the Business Strategy
• The Overall Business Strategy
• Personal Action Plan
• Etc.

Who should attend?

The Mini MBA is designed for and targeted at both new and experienced managers and consultants, for example:

• CEOs, SFOs, Directors, Senior Managers and consultants moving towards the highest level of management.
• Functional managers, marketing managers, financial managers, production managers, IT managers, development managers, sales managers, client managers, office managers, etc.
• Department managers
• Middle management
• Key employees in corporate functions
• Project Managers
• Leadership and management consultants.