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MBA Essentials

Unlock
your potential.

 

Are you a newly minted executive or about to be promoted to a management-level position? If so, now is the perfect time to invest in yourself to fast-track your success, build your confidence and strengthen your skill sets.

Part of your quest to become a better manager should include acquainting yourself with the other functions in your organization (human resources, finance, marketing and so forth), learning about best practices and honing your leadership style.

With the MBA Essentials program, you will learn the same basic concepts taught in the MBA program, only condensed into an eight-day format. By the end of the program, you will have acquired the hard and soft skills you need to excel in your role and leverage your full potential.


Six hours of personalized coaching
included in the program.


GOALS

This program will let you:

  • Broaden your horizons and become more confident.
  • Expand the array of solutions at your disposal by exposing you to new concepts, practical analysis frameworks and best management practices.
  • Understand the strategic issues at play in your organization.
  • Turn your focus inward to evaluate your own management style and use it to your advantage.
  • Get ideas and inspiration through interactions with your fellow participants.

IS THIS FOR YOU?

  • Professionals with at least nine years of experience
  • Aspiring managers
  • Newly promoted managers

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Learn core MBA concepts in a matter of days.
  • Embrace new perspectives through a deeper understanding of your role and the various functions within your organization.
  • Take advantage of six hours of personalized coaching.
  • Benefit from the expertise of leading MBA-level instructors.
  • Enjoy the flexibility of a schedule built around the needs of busy professionals.

TESTIMONIALS

“It’s the perfect way to fine-tune your managerial abilities. The content is really relevant, and the faculty, the guest speakers, even the people taking the program are all experts in their field. The conversations are incredibly illuminating, and having people from so many different backgrounds is a huge advantage.”

Fadi Tarcha, Director, Global Strategic Accounts, Vertiv

“The customized MBA Essentials program has positively impacted my leadership style and my organization in many ways. Continuing education in the healthcare sector inevitably benefits both us as professionals and the patients we care for. Everybody wins.”

Dr. Nicole Leblanc, Pediatrician and Regional Chief of Staff, Vitalité Health Network, New Brunswick

If you would like to offer this course to a group of professionals and you are based outside of Canada, check our international programs.

 

Day 1 - Mastering your management skills (+ previous evening) - Kevin J. Johnson and Viana Poulin

  • A new and improved vision of the management profession
  • Assessing your managerial style and practices

Day 2 - Driving customer satisfaction through listening-based marketing  - Johanne Brunet

  • Needs analysis and customer retention
  • Cultivating a successful marketing strategy

Day 3 - Empowering your human resources: A winning strategy  - Alain Gosselin

  • Envisioning human resources as an investment
  • Lessons learned from industry-leading employers

Day 4 - Getting a handle on your financials - Hugo Lesley

  • Reading and interpreting financial reports
  • Top financial analysis ratios

Day 5 - Operational excellence: The key to creating value - Olivier Lourdel

  • Managing operations: concepts, challenges and compromises
  • Operational excellence: management approaches and models

Day 6 - Strategy as a source of organizational agility  - Brian King

  • Clearly articulating your strategic intent
  • The foundations of a winning strategy

Day 7 - The organization as a springboard for action - Kevin J. Johnson

  • Developing a realistic view of your operational leeway
  • Understanding the interdependent relationship between various action-oriented solutions

Day 8 - Spotting and seizing opportunities for action within your organization  - Kevin J. Johnson and Viana Poulin

  • Identifying incentives and obstacles for translating knowledge into action

TRAINING APPROACH

A variety of dynamic and interactive teaching methods are used, including real business case scenarios, discussions, role-playing activities and team presentations.

In addition to training sessions on the various functions within an organization, we are proud to deliver an innovative and integrated approach rooted in four types of tools:

  1. Introductory seminar to help you contextualize your understanding of the managerial role
    Using a self-assessment questionnaire, which has proven to be a useful tool for thousands of managers to date, and a series of in-class exercises, you will take stock of your career, examine your management-related values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours, and explore your approach to employee motivation and engagement.
  2. Two three-hour personalized coaching sessions with an expert in working with business professionals
    This will help you draw relevant lessons from past experiences, improve your introspective ability, experiment with new practices and strengthen methods that will help you move forward.
  3. A learning log that will be used throughout the program
    After each of the sessions, you are encouraged to note what you have learned and add your personal thoughts about how they apply to your organization and your own development journey.
  4. A strategy sharing and implementation day at the end of the program
    Engage in a discussion with your peers about the conditions that help or hinder the process of translating knowledge into action.

 

Faculty administrator and instructor:

Viana Poulain

Viana Poulin

MBA, GDip
Guest Professor, HEC Montréal

Kevin Johnson

Kevin J. Johnson

MSc (Psychology), PhD (Management)
Associate Professor, HEC Montréal

Instructors:

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Brian King

MBA, PhD
Associate Professor, HEC Montréal

Johanne Brunet

Johanne Brunet

CPA-CGA, MBA, HEC Montréal, PhD (Industrial and Business Studies)
Professor, HEC Montréal

Alain Gosselin

Alain Gosselin

FCHRP, MSc (Management), PhD (Human Resources Management)
Professor emeritus, HEC Montréal

Olivier Lourdel

Olivier Lourdel

Full-Time Lecturer, HEC Montréal

Hugo Lesley

Hugo Lesley

CPA Auditor, CA, MBA
Full-Time Lecturer, HEC Montréal

 

 

FEE

$5,995 + taxes


LENGTH

One evening (2 p.m. to 8 p.m.)
and eight days (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.)


DATE(S)

FALL 2023
Offered in class

October 19, 2023 to January 26, 2024
One evening: October 19, 2023 (start 2 p.m.)
Eight days: October 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17, 24, December 8, 2023
One day-long knowledge transfer activity: January 26, 2024

WINTER 2024
Offered online OR in class

March 14, 2024 to May 31, 2024
One evening: March 14, 2024 (start 2 p.m.)
Eight days: March 15, 22, April 5, 12, 19, 26, May 3, 2024
One day-long knowledge transfer activity: May 31, 2024

The welcome evening, day one and the transfer activity will take place in person at HEC Montréal.


LANGUAGE

Course given in French


QUESTIONS?

 Make an appointment with:

Joelle-Zoghbi-115

Joëlle Zoghbi
Program Manager

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 By Phone


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