The Mini MBA: Strategic Leadership & Business Excellence

Self-Learning Course Info

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Self-Learning

Fees:

£ 550

Course Details

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This practical leadership programme empowers professionals to think strategically, make confident business decisions, and lead successfully in a rapidly changing world. Participants will explore modern strategy, finance, marketing, innovation, AI, organisational leadership, and ethical business practices while gaining practical tools to drive performance, manage change, and create lasting impact. By the end of the programme, learners will have a well-rounded leadership toolkit and a clear action plan to accelerate both organisational and personal success.

Self-learning Course Outline

Self-learning Course Content

Part 1: Strategic Thinking & Modern Strategy Frameworks

Move beyond static, legacy long-term planning to build adaptive strategies suited to volatile, modern "polycrisis" markets. Leaders learn to deconstruct complex market shocks, upgrade traditional tools like SWOT with Porter's Five Forces and Blue Ocean Strategy, and close the persistent gap between strategy formulation and execution by implementing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with organisation-wide alignment.


Part 2: Financial Acumen for Leaders

Build the financial fluency non-finance leaders need to engage confidently in boardroom discussions. Demystifies the three core financial statements, introduces quantitative tools for evaluating investment decisions, and reframes valuation from the perspective of investors and boards through EBIT/EBITDA and market capitalisation.


Part 3: Organisational Behaviour & People Leadership

Equip leaders with the skills to guide people effectively through complexity and organisational change. Covers building psychologically safe and inclusive team cultures that support performance, guiding employees through digital transitions using the ADKAR model, and orchestrating an increasingly decentralised workforce spanning hybrid employees, fractional experts, and AI-augmented teams.


Part 4: Modern Marketing Strategy

Modernise marketing strategy for the digital economy by transitioning from the traditional 4Ps to the customer-centric 4Es model. Explores building multi-channel customer journeys, balancing acquisition costs against lifetime value, and constructing durable brand equity through community-led growth.


Part 5: Innovation & the AI Transformation

Prepare the organisation to lead, not lag, in an era of disruption. Addresses integrating LLMs and autonomous AI agents securely across departments, auditing vulnerability to digital disruption through the lens of the Innovator's Dilemma, and applying the Design Thinking process to prototype and test new solutions rapidly.


Part 6: Execution, Ethics & Leadership Development

Convert strategic intent into measurable organisational velocity and personal leadership growth. Combines Lean and Agile execution to eliminate waste and streamline approvals, embeds ESG principles into core strategic planning, and closes the programme with a structured framework for building a personal leadership brand and 100-Day Action Plan

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