Course ID: MBAEXP

MBAexpress – 30 Module Bundle

If you don’t have the time to complete an MBA degree, but still want to understand the key concepts, then this course is for you. MBAexpress provides essential business savvy over the course of 30 1-hour online learning modules in the following areas: ADDING VALUE, BUSINESS STRATEGY, LEADERSHIP STRATEGY, PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT, and POWERFUL COMMUNICATION.

Designed for managers, professionals, and business owners who want to develop a broad perspective to deal more effectively in today’s rapidly changing and increasingly complex business environment.

Learn the key elements and components of a traditional MBA while looking strategically at an organization from a holistic perspective to improve business planning and decision-making. You will also learn to recognize how different business processes drive results as well as identify the effective use of key performance indicators to motivate, measure, evaluate, and improve results.


Learning Objectives
  • Gain a high-level but thorough understanding of the key elements and components of a traditional MBA
  • Recognize how to look strategically at an organization from a holistic perspective to improve business planning and decision-making
  • Understand how different business processes drive results
  • Apply key performance indicators to motivate, measure, evaluate, and improve results

Major Topics

MBAexpress contains the following on-demand modules:

  • Balanced Scorecard – Discuss in depth the four perspectives of the balanced scorecard (financial, customer, business process, learning & growth); Articulate the value that a balanced scorecard brings to an organization; Discuss the value of identifying a small number of strategic objects for each perspective
  • Basics of Business Law – Corporate Management; Employee Handbook; Intellectual Property; Contract Law; Contract Components
  • Best Practices for Better Budgeting and Planning – Corporate Management; Employee Handbook; Intellectual Property; Contract Law; Contract Components
  • Business Benefits of Sustainability – Triple Bottom Line: Economy, Society, Environment; Bottom Line Impact of Sustainability; Creating a green team; Monitoring success
  • Business Process Improvement – Benefits of Lean; Lean in a Service Organization; Flow Organization; Reducing costs; Maximizing productivity; Minimizing waste and re-work; Best practices; The lean business; Value and value stream; Pursuit of perfection; Employee empowerment
  • Communication in the Workplace – Characteristics, Strengths and Weaknesses of Personality Styles, Connecting with Personality Styles, Audience Demographics
  • Creativity & Innovation – Creativity methods for generating ideas quickly; Breaking through mental barriers; Brainstorming; Innovation; Using the creative side of your brain
  • Effective Change Management – Different personality traits and how they might react during a time of change; The five change management principles; Kotter’s 8 step change model, Who Moved My Cheese and adaptive change as described by Jim Collins concept of the Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG)
  • Emotional Intelligence – Benefits of emotional intelligence (EI); Steps to increase your emotional intelligence; Emotional intelligence to decision making; Active listening versus traditional listening
  • Essence of Entrepreneurship – Why current business plans that focus primarily on the numbers is the wrong approach; Components of the non-traditional business plan: People, Opportunity, Context, Risk and Reward; The dark side of being an entrepreneur; Lead Generation Strategies
  • Excellent Customer Service – Internal vs External Customer Service; Servicing Customers Well; Customer Needs & Wants
  • Faster Disaster Recovery – Common Disasters; Uncommon Disasters; Preparing for a Disaster; Disaster Recovery
  • Ferreting Out Fraud – Fraud Triangle; Fraud Risk Factors; Warning Signs of Fraud; Fraud Prevention
  • Good Governance – Duty of Care; Duty of Loyalty; Increased Risk Factors; Minimizing Liability; Ethical Organization Strategies
  • Insightful Financial Analysis – The financial analysis process; Corporate overview; Industry analysis; Business strategy; Ratio analysis; Cash sufficiency; DuPont analysis; Horizontal and vertical analysis; Continuity plan
  • International Business – Business Models; Customs and Etiquette; Communication; Import/Export/Product liability; Guides/Interpreters; International markets
  • Latest in Leadership – The principles of improvisation are: respect, support, trust, listen, focus, adapt; Team building; Leadership attributes; Leadership styles
  • Masterful Marketing – Determine what lead generation method would work the best for their business (referrals, direct marketing, publish a book, etc.): Recognize that you are in the people business first and it’s people who create the relationships that that drive revenue: Discuss the differences between the various social media platforms
  • Networking: Building a Stronger Professional Network – Types of Networks, Types of Influential People, Building Your Network, Clique versus entrepreneurial networks, Volunteerism
  • Nuances of Negotiating – Using your network; Drafting a battle plan; Setting expectations; Closing the gap; Using “Yes and”
  • Performance Management – Key Elements of Developing People; Setting Performance Goals Steps; Employee Motivation Elements; Formal vs. Informal Compensation
  • Powerful Presentation Skills – Using visualization, Practice is essential, Positive energy, Slide count calculation, A speech versus an experience, Fear of questions, Know your audience, Communication styles, Turn off the adrenaline, The power of a pause
  • Presenting Financial Information– Presentation tips, Providing context with your numbers, Tables and charts, Using visuals, Formatting your information, WIFM
  • Project Management – Discussion of the 5 groups that exist in a project management process (initiating, plan, execute, monitoring & controlling, and close); Identifying the 10 knowledge areas that exist in a project management process: Explaining that change management is an area that exists within a project management system
  • Risk Management – 5 Business Risk Truths; Risk Assessment Approaches (SWOTS & PESTLES); Risk Evaluation
  • Smarter Decision-making – Decision- Making Bias; Decision- Making Styles; Solving Problems; Brainstorming and Brainswarming
  • Strategy for Success – Simon Sinek – “Start with why”; 5 Step Backcasting Process; Good & Bad Mission Statements
  • Success with Social Media – Forms of Social Media, Business Benefits, Getting Started in Social Media
  • Teamwork & High Performance Teams – Illustrate the principles of improvisation and how they relate to building a high performance teams; Demonstrate the positive effects of replacing Yes But with Yes And; Experiment with the improvisation concept of “listening to understand (listen)” and “being present (focus)”
  • The Art of Effective Writing – Formatting words for readability, Making your point, Active versus passive writing, Choosing words for understandability, Using emoticons and punctuation, Bad writing examples

Who Should Attend

Managers, professionals, and business owners who want to develop a broad perspective to deal more effectively in today’s rapidly changing and increasingly complex business environment.


Fields of Study
Business Law, Business Management & Organization, Behavioral Ethics, Accounting, Communications and Marketing, Management Services, Personal Development

Prerequisites

None


Provider
Business Learning Institute

CPE Credits
30.0

Level
Basic

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