The Oxford 10-Day MBA

Introduction

In today’s highly competitive environment, it is crucial to have a thorough understanding of the multi-dimensional issues faced in managing a business or department effectively. This “Oxford 10-Day MBA” will focus on issues and dilemmas faced in today’s changing world.

This GLOMACS "Oxford 10-Day MBA" training course is designed to stretch delegates, in order to equip them with the knowledge and confidence to lead and manage in a fast moving and complex business environment. This Management & Leadership training course is a unique distillation of the skills that you need to be successful in business.

Modules

This training course is split into the following modules:

Module I - Mastering People Management & Team Leadership

Module II - Strategic Thinking, Analysis & Business Planning

Objectives

The principal objectives of this Oxford 10-Day MBA training course can be set out in the following way:

• To enable delegates to understand how human resource management is critical to success in increasingly competitive markets
• To learn the most effective approaches to gaining and sustaining personal effectiveness against a rapidly changing business environment
• To learn how to build effective teams and develop high levels of individual and team performance
• To present the power of strategic thinking and business planning in creating an environment and culture of profitable growth and positive change
• To understand the linkage and significance of aligning the strategic and operational levels of managing a business
• To enable delegates to cope with the changing determinants of sustainable high-level organizational and individual performance 

Methodology

This Oxford 10-Day MBA training course will be delivered in an interactive and fast-paced manner, combining several learning mechanisms. There will be some formal exposition of tools and techniques in each of the two modules. In addition there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion of real-life examples and for work in small groups on case studies. It is also intended to use DVD presentations by acknowledged world-class authorities on the main subjects.

Organisational Impact

In sending delegates to this Oxford 10-Day MBA training course, the sponsoring organizations can expect to gain the following benefits:

• Greater staff awareness of the requirement for creative and innovative thinking in today’s organizations
• Improved teamwork amongst delegates from different specializations within the organization
• Opportunity for further internal dissemination of practical methods, tools and techniques that can help improve outputs from all resources used in a business (people, capital, technology and products)
• Improved leadership and management at key levels of staff in an organization
• Improved motivation of key staff to create superior performance in engaging competitors, customers and partners in an increasingly international environment
• Improved understanding by staff of the impact of their specialist activity on the overall performance and potential of the organization 

Personal Impact

In attending this Oxford 10-Day MBA training course, delegates can expect to gain the following benefits:

• Greater confidence in discussing major development issues within their organization
• A very much broader appreciation of the ways in which human, financial, commercial and technical issues interact in developing organizations
• A sharper appreciation of the contribution that individual specializations make to creating and enhancing an organization’s competitive capability
• A fuller understanding of the difference and interdependence between strategic and operational dimensions of management
• Learning by case-studies of other organizations and through interaction with experienced managers from different organizations
• Ability to make a direct contribution to creating tomorrow’s organization out of today’s organization