Columbia Leadership Group | Leadership Development

MINI MBA

Essentials of Management

Do you know the latest business essentials?

ESSENTIALS OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT delivers the depth you need, in the time you have so you can take your performance to the next level--fast. The program equips managers who’ve grown into a larger role or shifted into a general manager position. The program is extremely beneficial for managers with non-business background or over-weighted experience in one or two functions. Learning includes:

1) How to Understand and Apply Financials – take your data interpretation skills further and make solid decisions for the organization

2) How to Market – learn effective methods and tools to market internally and externally

3) How to Deliver through Operations – keeping the organizational engine humming

4) How to Conceive and Implement Strategy – take concepts from the drawing board to action to results

5) How to Negotiate for Maximum Benefit – understand negotiation strategies and tools and when use each

6) How to Increase Organizational Insights through Accounting – deepen your understanding of how the money flows

7) How to Enhance your Leadership – develop heightened awareness of your leadership style

MINI MBA

Essentials of Management

Do you know the latest business essentials?

1) How to Understand and Apply Financials – take your data interpretation skills further and make solid decisions for the organization

2) How to Market – learn effective methods and tools to market internally and externally

3) How to Deliver through Operations – keeping the organizational engine humming

4) How to Conceive and Implement Strategy – take concepts from the drawing board to action to results

5) How to Negotiate for Maximum Benefit – understand negotiation strategies and tools and when use each

6) How to Increase Organizational Insights through Accounting – deepen your understanding of how the money flows

7) How to Enhance your Leadership – develop heightened awareness of your leadership style

WHY MINI MBA?

Achieve essential business knowledge in key MBA subjects
Expand your thinking to improve your critical, strategic, and innovative thinking
Learn from the best in the world with faculty from across the best business schools
Build strong, useable networks with global- and industry-diverse participants
You set the pace of your learning via our easy-to-access, easy-to-use learning platform
Useable, deeply-researched content gives first-time and front-line managers what they need, when they need it
A highly-personalized experience centered around rich feedback and assessment
Heavy emphasis on practicing new techniques and skills so you're ready to apply them immediately back on the job

WHY MINI MBA?

Achieve essential business knowledge in key MBA subjects
Expand your thinking to improve your critical, strategic, and innovative thinking
Learn from the best in the world with faculty from across the best business schools
Build strong, useable networks with global- and industry-diverse participants
You set the pace of your learning via our easy-to-access, easy-to-use learning platform
Useable, deeply-researched content gives first-time and front-line managers what they need, when they need it
A highly-personalized experience centered around rich feedback and assessment
Heavy emphasis on practicing new techniques and skills so you're ready to apply them immediately back on the job

PROGRAM EXPERIENCE

BEFORE

Participants are welcomed into the program with a package of digestible articles and videos to prime their thinking around the Mini MBA topics. They complete a group of quick, straightforward assessments to capture their knowledge and skills. Participants also share their development goals and goals for the program.

DURING

For five days, participants engage with highly-qualified faculty in a dynamic, participant-focused learning environment.

Learning modules include: Understanding & Applying Financials, Marketing Effectiveness, Delivering via Operations, Building and Delivering Strategy, Negotiate for Results, Seeing Further with Accounting, Enhancing your Leadership

• Applicable-now, current content based on deep research that fills knowledge gaps, builds strong leader mindsets and skills, and supports leading others with your leadership style

• Experiential exercises, cases and simulations bring concepts to life

• Group work allows for real-time leadership roles

• Continual networking fosters lasting connections

• Personalized action plan for applying new knowledge and tools back at work on day one

AFTER

Participants have continual access to program and post-program materials, as well as facilitators and other participants as resources for ensuring they're most effectively applying their learning on the job.

Ongoing support includes:

• An online portal with resources and support focused on your needs

• Access to eLearning resources to support your learning on the job including books, podcasts, articles and quick-reference checklists and tools

• Optional, fee-based coaching