Advanced Management Program

Subjects

Part 1

Strategic Management

Good strategies blend creativity, vision and feasibility. Bad strategies are utopian, unspecific and don’t communicate well. Our goal is to demonstrate ways to develop concise, well communicated, future oriented strategies designed to generate better results and guarantee long-term employment.

Strategic Options

• Ways to develop promising strategic options
• Digital Business Transformation
• How to assess strategic options and evaluate their advantages, disadvantages and prerequisites for their implementation
• How to appraise strategic options in terms of feasibility and success potential

Strategic Formulation

• Concise strategy formulation; best-practice examples
• Methods and tools for strategic planning
• Implementation of strategies

Part 2

Performance Control in Practice

• Initiatives to increase financial performance
• Pro's and con's of the shareholder value concept
• Determining profitability goals and ways to reach them

Finance Management, Mergers & Acquisitions

Acquiring and divesting businesses, planning of mergers and financing decisions—all these transactions are the responsibility of top management. One of the most renowned lecturers in the field of financial management demonstrates in this part of the seminar how to valuate, acquire and divest businesses and how to apply modern financial tools.

Part 3

Leadership Management

• The concept of integrated management
• Definition of personal leadership qualities
• The role of a leader
• Rules and basics of effective leadership

Communication as Core Competence

• Characteristics of communication skills for leaders
• How communication motivates and drives performance
• How communication frustrates and builds barriers and rejection

Leadership Skills

• What are my personal strengths as a leader?
• What development potential do I want to use to improve personal leadership qualities?
• What changes increase performance and satisfaction of coworkers?