Mini MBA
Master of Business Administration
Master of Business Administration
(Mini MBA)
Program Overview
The Mini MBA is a comprehensive training program that provides participants with the core knowledge and skills, essential concepts and tools as provided in the full-fledged MBA program, yet quicker and more cost-effective. You will acquire the business skills essential for success in today's highly competitive business environment.
The program uses a Business Simulation throughout the training days - this means you will practice what you learn. You will make mistakes and try again until you get it right. This program is ideal for managers and professionals who want boost their career and become a great “all-round manager”. The program covers the fundamentals of Leadership, Strategy, HR, Business Finance, Project Management, Marketing & Sales, Quality Management and Supply Chain.
Venue:Online or Face to face.
The Diploma period: (80 training hours)
Certification Process
Participants of this program will receive the Certificate of Mini MBA from Cambridge International College (Britain) upon passing the assessment criteria.
Assessment of the qualified Participant will include:
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Attendance of 90% of training hours
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Interaction and performance
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Participant Case Study and Presentation
Program Fees
US$ …………per delegate. This rate includes course material and certification.
Who Should Attend
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Professionals, supervisors and managers seeking to advance their professional career and differentiate themselves in the market.
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Professionals looking to acquire the business skills essential for success in today's highly competitive environment.
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Those who want to enroll in an MBA program but cannot afford due to cost or schedule constraints.
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Entrepreneurs and business owners who want to learn how to run their business effectively.
Program Objectives
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Understand how an organization really works – with a multi-functional overview of a business and key leadership competences necessary for success.
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Develop strategic thinking, planning and execution skills at a divisional or functional level, using the best tools and frameworks.
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Build a solid project plan within the unique organizational and cost constraints.
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Influence, enable and deliver wider organizational goals and tasks.
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Lead and align your stakeholders to deliver your divisional, functional or organizational strategy.
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Make better business decisions and improve your contribution to the business.
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Speak the language of business & understand how managers think and act.
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Support strategic goals from top management and be able to translate them for your area and implement them more efficiently.
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Better implement strategy through the people in your team and different departments with new leadership skills.
Program Outline
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Leadership Development: Key competences, building self awareness, leading others and the organization through change. This also includes self profiling, daily reflection and feedback from the facilitators and peers to develop emotional intelligence.
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Strategic Planning: Building a strategy (the changing world and its impact, internal analysis, differentiation etc), and strategy execution (organizational and individual).
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Project Management: What is a project? Project terminology. How a project is organized. Project orientation. Project planning process. Developing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Schedule the project. Applying the planning and control cycle. Project status reports. Project scope changes. Managing risks. Assessing performance.
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Finance: The fundamentals that underpin business success including Profit & Loss, Balance Sheets, Cash Flow and Investment decision-making.
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Creativity: Creative thinking in the workplace. How to develop creative thinking skills. Prepare for creativity, intuition and use of creativity to generate ideas for problem-solving.
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Marketing, Sales & Customer Service: Knowing the customer (needs and segmentation) and achieving success with the customer (targeting, Customer Value Proposition, sales etc). Customer Care and Technical Support.
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Supply Chain: Involves the flow of materials, information, and finances as they move in a level process from supplier, to manufacturer, to wholesaler, to retailer, and finally to the consumer, its importance in delivering the Customer Value Proposition
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Human Resource Management: HRM is the legal liaison between the organization and the employees, it is responsible for the attraction, selection, training, assessment, and rewarding of employees. HRM nowadays is very critical for any organization.
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Quality Management & Governance: Modern managerial concepts through which professionals will maintain the continual improvement of their performance, and maintain transparency and integrity in individual and corporate operations.
Course Trainer
Dr. Hourani has PhD in Strategic Planning from USA, a Certified Professional Consultant (CPC)-USA, Certified Translator & Interpreter Expert (CITE), and a Certified Trainer–UK. Translator, Entrepreneur and innovative thinker by nature. Fluent in Arabic and English, and had a cross-cultural background as a result of working with tens of nationalities worldwide.
As a senior strategist, Dr. Hourani worked for more than 30 years as a management and business director, consultant, instructor, translator and portfolio manager. He worked for major organizations all over the world like ETN-Holland, TUV-Germany, Swissquote Bank-Switzerland, M.M. Corporation-Japan, PADICO-Palestine, SABIC-Saudi Arabia, QP-Qatar, EDB-Bahrain, ADNOC-UAE, Bureau Veritas-UAE, Haward Technology-UAE, and many Universities in Gulf Region. He was the General Manager of TUV Akademie Middle East, and handled business development projects and strategic planning for major bodies like Abu Dhabi Municipality, Abu Dhabi Police, and Al Riyadh Regional Municipality.
While working for these major organizations, Dr. Hourani shared the establishing of work plans, conducting appropriate interventions and baseline studies for several NGOs and governmental institutions, and appoint as a referee of the Jury for the Contest of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, University of Jordan Feb. 2022
Dr. Hourani translated and edited more than 100 books in economics, management, health education & politics. The latest is translating the famous book (New Digital Deal, By Dr. Bas Boorsma & Dr. Yousef Assaf) 2020 on behalf of RIT University. Dr. Hourani also is a member of several Management and Business bodies such as PMI, AMA and Smart Cities Council-USA.
As a renowned speaker, he is a visiting lecturer/trainer and an Affiliate of Cambridge Int’l College-UK, in addition to lecturing for Abu Dhabi University, American University of RAK, University of Sharjah, Emirates Institute for Banking, and some other consulting and training, governmental & NGOs institutions worldwide.
Dr. Hourani believes that the collective knowledge, experience, innovation of the people should empower the organization. Team work, knowledge sharing, business ethics, and organizational development are a subset of his commandments. He is greatly satisfied when he brings happiness to people, learns something new, adds great value to the organization, and have a satisfied customer.
