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Corporate Mini-MBA

An EMBA-style professional retraining program “Effective Manager” for department heads, mid-level managers, and leading specialists.

Workload
864 academic hours
Contact hours
360 hours
Independent study
504 hours
Assessment
Final qualification project defense

Audience

  • Department and unit heads
  • Mid-level managers
  • Leading specialists and the company’s talent pool

Program goal

To build systemic competencies in strategic, operational, financial, and people management for leaders, mid-level managers, and leading specialists — adapted to the company’s industry and priorities.

Learning format

Corporate Mini-MBA is delivered as a professional retraining program: classroom lectures and practice combined with independent study and a final project.

Final assessment is the defense of a qualification project: a development initiative for an existing business line (process efficiency, new service launch, operating-model optimization, and similar).

Curriculum

Curriculum

The program covers Mini-MBA management disciplines: from the management loop and HR to strategy, negotiations, operations, projects, law, and information systems.

01

Effective management

48 hours
  1. 01.1Manager roles and functions. Management loop. Delegation and time management
  2. 01.2Power, politics, leadership style. Managerial leadership skills
  3. 01.3Structured decision-making. Approaches and methods for managerial decisions
  4. 01.4Planning, monitoring, control, and feedback to employees
  5. 01.5Organizational culture and its effect on management style and methods
  6. 01.6Motivation and incentives. Principles of well-organized work
  7. 01.7Managing differences. Conflict: sources, stages, management strategies
  8. 01.8Work groups and effectiveness factors
  9. 01.9Managing organizational change
02

Human resource management

48 hours
  1. 02.1HR system in the organization. People as a strategic resource. HR strategy
  2. 02.2Recruitment and hiring. Vacancy approaches, candidate sources, common mistakes. Onboarding
  3. 02.3People assessment. Qualitative and quantitative methods. KPIs linked to job descriptions and competency models
  4. 02.4Learning and development. Four stages of learning. Development methods. Mentoring
03

Marketing and customer relationship management

48 hours
  1. 03.1The customer, needs, and behavior
  2. 03.2Marketing research
  3. 03.3Marketing mix 7P. Three-level product analysis (Levitt). Product life cycle. BCG matrix. Blue Ocean strategy. Brand value
  4. 03.4Pricing in marketing
  5. 03.5Marketing communications
04

Financial management for non-financiers

48 hours
  1. 04.1Accounting and management accounting for managers. Reporting forms. Tax systems. Responsibility centers. Budgeting
  2. 04.2Financial management. Analysis methods. CVP analysis. Receivables and inventory. Discounting
  3. 04.3Managerial economics. External and internal factors. Micro- and macroeconomic equilibrium
05

Organizational strategy

72 hours
  1. 05.1External strategic analysis: STEEP, Porter’s five forces, critical success factors, strategic group map
  2. 05.2Internal analysis: resources and capabilities, value chain
  3. 05.3SWOT analysis
  4. 05.4Strategy design: Ansoff matrix, Porter matrix
  5. 05.5Strategic choice and implementation: resistance and risks
  6. 05.6Interim defense of the strategic project
06

Effective negotiations

48 hours
  1. 06.1Negotiations as business communication. Harvard model. Soft and hard negotiations
  2. 06.2Preparation. Partner research. Needs, interests, and positions. Benefit-based proposals
  3. 06.3Difficult negotiations: tactics, influence techniques, manipulations
  4. 06.4Countering hard negotiations. Objection handling. Breaking deadlocks
  5. 06.5Closing stage. Actions after yes and after no
07

Business process management

48 hours
  1. 07.1Operations management. Value chain. Strategic operations goals
  2. 07.2Process design. Layout and flows. Capacity, demand, queues, and supply chain
  3. 07.3Operations improvement: continuous improvement, TQM, lean, automation
08

Project management

36 hours
  1. 08.1Project and project management definitions. Key characteristics. Project life cycles
  2. 08.2Scope planning. Core documents. Work breakdown structure
  3. 08.3Project budgeting. Estimates and cost reserves
  4. 08.4Project execution and communications. Reporting. Earned value
  5. 08.5Project risk management: identify, assess, respond, control
09

Legal foundations of business

36 hours
  1. 09.1Legal entities: concept and features
  2. 09.2Creation and termination of legal entities
  3. 09.3Types of legal entities and civil-law implications
  4. 09.4Commercial organizations: law and practice
  5. 09.5Non-profit organizations: norms and practice
  6. 09.6Legal aspects of property management
  7. 09.7Internal governance. Contracts and regulatory requirements
10

Information systems in business

24 hours
  1. 10.1IT infrastructure management (ERP, accounting and document systems)
  2. 10.2Using information systems to regulate activity
  3. 10.3Management by objectives and KPIs with information systems. Executive dashboards
  4. 10.4Organizational modeling and process automation
11

Final assessment

360 hours
  1. 11.1Preparation and defense of the final qualification project — a development initiative for an existing business line

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