If you want a stack of ideas to improve your management style
… but you don’t have a year to spare:
The Three-Hour MBA
Pick up more management tools in three hours
than you ever thought possible.
Management isn’t getting any easier. But opportunities to get training are getting scarcer. So how can you get a thorough grounding in some key management models, theories and tools quickly, easily and inexpensively?
If only you could do an MBA in half a day!
“Invaluable both as a foundation to the subject for new managers and as a quick refresher for the more seasoned managers and leaders.”
Cryss Mennaceur, LB of Sutton
Our three-hour MBA gives you a wide range of resources to give your leadership and management styles a real boost. Whether you want different ways to lead, to know what key factors to pay attention to, the two principle management styles, or how to motivate your staff, you will get an armful of powerful ideas to put into practice back at your workplace.
“Really good at presenting the material and also gave the impression of being very knowledgeable and friendly to boot!”
Audience member, Big Lottery Fund
The Three-hour MBA is not just about management and leadership, though. You will also learn the fundamentals essential business graduate skills, like business strategy, marketing and decision-making. Each of these of these comes with practical tools and checklists that the big consulting firms use to get reliable results fast.
“Mike Clayton is very animated and explains the concepts in an easy, concise understandable way”
Lucy Cornell – MJR Consultancy
Real Results
Based on twelve years at a global management consultancy, and nine years of training and coaching managers and leaders, Mike Clayton combines his practical “instant results” mind-set with his talent for making complex ideas easy to implement, to show you how to:
- Lead people to get real results
- Develop and manage a team with a shared commitment
- Motivate and energise
- Develop your team, group, department or business strategy
- Make robust decisions that you can justify to bosses, shareholders and voters
- Put together a basic marketing strategy
- … and persuade the people who matter
Whatever your role in business management, public administration or managing in the voluntary sector, The Three-hour MBA will help you tackle your role with new energy, real effectiveness, and great ideas.
“Mike was an excellent presenter.
Really good seminar and took away loads of ideas”
Debra Fletcher, Commercial and Supply Chain Manager – Astra Zeneca
The Three-hour MBA
– because most of us can’t spare a year, and can’t fund the fees.
In The Three-hour MBA, you will learn …
- How to navigate organisational power bases
- Leadership without power
- How to guide your team from an unruly mob to an effective machine
- When teams go wrong – and how to fix them
- Seven leadership behaviours and how to choose which one
- The four fundamental roles of a leader
- The two principal ways of managing – and how to do each one well
- How to understand the people who work for you – young and old
- Five theories of motivation and how you can put them to work
- How to assess your strategic environment
- Where your company can win more business
- How to create competitive advantage and build long-term value
- How to make a business decision
- The three criteria for a sound decision
- What makes group decisions go wrong or go right
- The fundamentals of marketing
- How to craft a marketing message
- The secrets of business persuasion they don’t teach you on an MBA
…because if you don’t know them, you won’t get in.
The Three-Hour MBA has more packed into it than you would think possible. Get to your seat on time, settle in and prepare for a fast ride to success.
Who should join in…
- New managers who want to get a ready-made toolkit of ideas and resources
- Experienced managers who want to polish up their practice and learn something new
- Senior managers who want to re-learn what they’ve not been using day-to-day
“Very useful, lots of tips/tricks that could help day to day.”
Mike Clayton
Mike Clayton spent twelve years as a management consultant, working with senior civil servants, local government chief officers, and senior executives of global and FTSE 100 companies. He left Deloitte as a Senior Manager and has spent the subsequent nine years training and coaching managers at all levels in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Having also founded a SME, Mike can say that he has not only advised and trained clients in all of these techniques; but he has applied them himself, in managing and developing his own businesses. Among Mike’s published books is “The Management Models Pocketbook.”
“I thought Mike, the presenter, was excellent.
He had my attention, made it very interesting and I learnt a lot.
He gave a lot to take away to put into practice.”
