Mini MBA: Business Essentials - Virtual Learning
Course Methodology
This training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension, and retention of the information presented. This includes stimulating presentations supporting each of the topics together with an interactive trainer leading discussion. There will be practical sessions where participants can practice and experience course-related activities. Realistic and exercises, short video presentations, small group work and feedback, will be used to facilitate learning. Interactive activities will be used throughout the course.
Course Objectives
At the end of this Mini-MBA: Business Essentials training course, you will learn to:
- Comprehend the business model that enables strategy to be successfully targeted towards customers.
- Develop the human dimension of leading and managing people in contemporary, successful organizations.
- Understand disruptive and open innovation, as well as lean and agile methodologies.
- Learn the multiple facets of our communication.
- Significance of corporate governance and how it might optimally work.
Target Audience
This Gulf Rowad Mini-MBA: Business Essentials training course is beneficial for professionals across every department of the organizations who are dealing with strategic and leadership decisions. This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Middle managers, department heads and senior managers
- Business professionals who need a wider understanding of leadership and strategic principles.
- Professionals whose task it is to create and implement strategy.
- Executives and leaders responsible to ensure Corporate Government initiatives.
- Professionals who would like a refresher course in MBA type topics and want to be familiar with current thinking.
Target Competencies
Organisational Impact
Your organization will benefit through improved critical understanding of the key competency areas required for success within a business – enabling more informed and commercially viable strategic decisions. In summary, your organization will benefit from:
- More effective leaders who align strategic objectives.
- Leaders who focus on results and goal achievement.
- Improved managerial communications.
- Higher levels of accountability and productivity
- Engagement that tackles change and innovation head-on.
- Clearer thinking and faster decision-making leading to cutting edge business practices
Personal Impact
This Mini-MBA: Business Essentials training course will give participants the confidence, drive, and skills to challenge themselves towards higher leadership & strategic performance. Specifically, they will develop:
- Appropriate strategies for day-to-day leadership
- Ways to use communication, influence, and persuasion to engage with colleagues.
- Ways to manage performance and turn people around.
- How to engage others in the achievement of targets
- The skills to meet ever changing challenges and complex problems.
Course Outline
Understanding the Strategic Environment
- What is strategy and why is it important?
- Analysis of Internal criteria to the company.
- Analysis of external criteria to the company.
- Strategic choice: focus, concentration, dealing with the life cycle effect
- The strategic impact of value migration during globalization.
- The linkage and alignment of strategic and operational management
- Strategic Formulation
- Strategic Implementation.
The Art of Leadership
- Keys to personal leadership
- Emotional Intelligence
- Balance as a key to resilient leadership
- Leadership zone of empowerment
- The paradox of leadership in the information age
- Delivering customer value
- Employee & Team Engagement
- Ensuring staff capability
Achieving Innovation
- How our thinking works.
- Vertical and lateral approaches, benefits and weaknesses.
- Testing ideas for practicality and relevance.
- Apply the more fluid style to the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
- Recognize obstacles to creativity in approach and working environment.
- Understand the limitations of conventional problem solving.
- Ensure that creativity becomes a tool for day-to-day problem solving.
- Decision Making processes.
Communications
- Connecting: Gaining rapport and building credibility.
- Consulting: Effective questioning and listening skills.
- Ways to be more convincing and overcoming conflict.
- Negotiating agreement and getting a win-win.
- Working together to achieve your goals: the secrets of great team working.
- Coordination activities in the digital age, tools and techniques.
- How to present your ideas, plans and projects well.
- How to manage meetings of your team or stakeholders.
Corporate Governance
- The responsibilities of Corporate Governance
- The history of sustainability
- Benefits of business sustainability
- Stakeholder expectations
- Sustainability operating systems
- Company policies
- Organizational structures
- Profit, People, Planet
2026 Schedule & Fees
| Date | City | Language | Price | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jun - 02 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 28 Jun - 02 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 05 Jul - 09 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 05 Jul - 09 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 12 Jul - 16 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 12 Jul - 16 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 19 Jul - 23 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 19 Jul - 23 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 26 Jul - 30 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 26 Jul - 30 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 02 Aug - 06 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 02 Aug - 06 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 09 Aug - 13 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 09 Aug - 13 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 16 Aug - 20 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 16 Aug - 20 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 23 Aug - 27 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 23 Aug - 27 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 30 Aug - 03 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 30 Aug - 03 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Sep - 10 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Sep - 10 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Sep - 17 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Sep - 17 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Sep - 24 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Sep - 24 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Sep - 01 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Sep - 01 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 04 Oct - 08 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 04 Oct - 08 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 11 Oct - 15 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 11 Oct - 15 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 18 Oct - 22 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 18 Oct - 22 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 25 Oct - 29 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 25 Oct - 29 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 01 Nov - 05 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 01 Nov - 05 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 08 Nov - 12 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 08 Nov - 12 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 15 Nov - 19 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 15 Nov - 19 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 22 Nov - 26 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 22 Nov - 26 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 29 Nov - 03 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 29 Nov - 03 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Dec - 10 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Dec - 10 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Dec - 17 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Dec - 17 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Dec - 24 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Dec - 24 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Dec - 31 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Dec - 31 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
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