Course Detail

Mini-MBA in Leadership and Management Dubai Duration: 2 Week/s

Course Information

  • Course Price
  • Location Dubai Courses
  • Course Code MMLMD
  • Course Date 29 Jan - 9 Feb 2024

Course Objectives
As the international business environment becomes ever more complex and demanding, organisations are placing a premium on managers whose outlook, knowledge and skills enable them to achieve and maintain success in an increasingly challenging world.
The Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree is internationally recognized and is seen as a passport to a successful management career. While this ‘Mini-MBA’ does not provide participants with a formal qualification, it does introduce participants to many of the key areas in Leadership and Management that would be covered in a formal MBA Programme.

Who Should Attend
All supervisors, middle managers, department heads and leaders, Engineers and other technical professionals moving into management, all professionals whose task it is to create and/or implement strategy who have not undertaken a formal MBA program, professionals who would like a refresher in MBA type topics and want to be familiar with current thinking about running an organisation in the 21st century, professionals that are likely to take up managerial positions in the not too distant future, non-business professionals who need a wider understanding of leadership and management principles and human resource personnel including HR Business Partners.

Course Overview

Leadership and Management in the 21st Century

  • Why a mini-MBA?

  • The development of theories and approaches of leadership

  • Management and leadership, The transformational leader

  • Understanding your leadership style

  • Future leaders – Managing Generation ‘X’, ‘Y’ and ‘Z’
    Strategy, Business Models and Strategic Thinking

  • Understanding the basics of strategy

  • The Business Model Canvas

  • SWOT, PEST, PESTLE Analysis

  • Porter’s Five-Forces Analysis, Blue Ocean Strategy

  • Strategic thinking
    HRM for Non-HR

  • The essentials of HRM. Understanding Strategic HR

  • Your role with HR, Recruitment, selection and retention

  • Understanding motivation
    Negotiation and Conflict Management Skills

  • Positive & Negative Conflict

  • Conflict Handling Modes, Resolving Conflict

  • Elements of Negotiation, The negotiation processes
    Change Management

  • The dimensions of change, A change management model

  • The five psychological phases of change

  • The pressure?performance relationship

  • Stress & change


  • Learning Goals
    By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
  • Understand fundamental business principles

  • Describe the latest thinking in management and leadership

  • Understand strategy and strategic thinking

  • Show awareness of the key communication competencies

  • Understand the major elements of a strategic HR management system

  • List the main stages in managing change in an organisation