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MBA Essentials: Enhancing Organizational Performance

 
Course: 247   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 5 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Integrate business management theory with realistic practices
  • Apply finance and cost accounting techniques to support decision making
  • Formulate a comprehensive marketing plan
  • Leverage organizational structures, operations and systems to achieve business objectives
  • Manage people effectively to maximize organization performance
  • Develop business and product strategies that create ongoing competitive advantage

Course Benefits

Understanding the complex factors that drive business is vital for professional and organizational effectiveness and to ensure a competitive edge. This course offers the skills you need to evaluate organizational information and address business challenges. You learn fundamental business concepts and proven management analysis tools typically taught in MBA programs to guide your analysis, planning, decision and implementation processes.

Who Should Attend

Business analysts, managers at all levels, IT professionals and anyone who wants a fast-track course to improve their business knowledge and decision making or needs to better interact with marketing, sales, finance or operations staff.

Course Workshop

You apply key analytical skills through a series of computer-based simulations. Workshops include:
  • Assessing the impact of your decisions through a comprehensive and realistic business simulation
  • Analyzing profit and loss statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements
  • Evaluating operating budgets and financial performance measures
  • Applying root cause analysis to improve effectiveness
  • Integrating tools and techniques to develop business and product strategies
  • Developing key concepts and components of an effective marketing plan

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Jan 26 - 30, 2009
 New York
Jan 26 - 30, 2009
 Ottawa
Feb 9 - 13, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Apr 13 - 17, 2009
 Toronto
Jun 1 - 5, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Jul 13 - 17, 2009
 New York
Jul 20 - 24, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Jul 27 - 31, 2009
 Ottawa
Aug 10 - 14, 2009
 Toronto

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1-800-THE-TREE (1-800-843-8733)
TRAINING YOU CAN TRUST
 
 

MBA Essentials: Enhancing Organizational Performance

 
Course: 247   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 5 Days
 
 
Course 247 Content
 

Fundamental Business Skills

  • Interpreting accounting concepts and reports
  • Applying financial analysis techniques
  • Leveraging customer and market behaviors
  • Structuring productive business operations and processes
  • Managing people effectively
  • Formulating a competitive business strategy

Measuring Business Performance with Accounting

The key components of managerial and cost accounting

  • Decoding the various types of accounts
  • Deciphering balance sheet accounts: assets, liabilities and net worth

Working with managerial accounting tools

  • Analyzing balance sheets to determine business strengths
  • Interpreting profit and loss statements
  • Assessing cash flow statements

The impact of cost accounting practices

  • Actual vs. standard costs
  • Employing costing techniques
  • Applying the concepts of activity-based costing

Applying Finance Tools and Techniques

Optimizing capital management

  • Managing the two key cash drivers: receivables and payables
  • Applying working capital effectively

Leveraging analysis tools

  • Selecting appropriate tools and measures
  • Driving solid management decisions

Financial management

  • Budgeting, forecasting and reporting tools
  • Balancing equity and debt

Targeting Markets and Customers

Developing an effective marketing plan

  • The roles of marketing
  • Distinguishing marketing and merchandising

Differentiating market and buyer behavior

  • Tuning in to customer needs
  • Segmenting your market
  • Marketing terminology and techniques

Your marketing toolkit

  • Applying the five "P"s of marketing
  • Branding: benefits and pitfalls
  • Leveraging the product life cycle

Running the Business

Maximizing an organization's effectiveness

  • Factors driving organizational structure
  • Improving selection of new employees

Applying critical business practices

  • Reducing waste with "lean" and related techniques
  • Incorporating the best of Six Sigma

Delivering Results Through People

Managing results and expectations

  • The actual responsibilities of management
  • Balancing managerial roles: interpersonal, informational and decisional
  • Managing under uncertainty

Navigating the levels of management

  • Shifting perspectives from level to level
  • Changing behaviors

Creating an effective environment

  • Expanding power through authenticity
  • Fostering emotional intelligence
  • Resolving tensions, disruptions and conflict

Developing Winning Business and Product Strategies

Building a sustainable plan

  • Best practices of effective planning processes
  • Assessing opportunities: matrices and SWOT analysis
  • Key forces and factors driving strategies
  • Identifying and developing strategic options
  • Product portfolio management

Moving from plan to action

  • Formulating a business vision
  • Communicating and executing the plan
  • Applying eight key steps for managing change
 
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MBA Essentials: Enhancing Organizational Performance Tuition

 
Course: 247   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 5 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 3,090 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 2,250 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,625 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,785 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,744 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,670 per course
  • Savings as much as 45%
  • Only $5,000
Premium Pass
  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,625 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Only $4,500
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $305 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

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