McGill Micro-MBA for New Managers
Equipping young managers with key business acumen competencies
Overview
The McGill Micro-MBA is an introduction to core managerial topics and business functions including financial and non-financial analysis, marketing, operations management and team management. Ideal for young professionals with little to no management experience or education, this program will provide you with the fundamental skills to effectively conduct business. You will leave the program with a greater understanding of business processes and the environment within which businesses operate. Offered in a convenient, digital format, this program is the perfect foundation upon which to build your career in any industry.
Key Benefits and Takeaways
- Define business and management more clearly
- Develop a broad view of the organization that supports employee engagement
- Understand the environment in which businesses operate and business processes
- Acquire the key management skills and knowledge to thrive in any business environment
- Learn common management vocabulary
- Develop core business acumen
- Gain the ability to sit at the table with other business stakeholders and speak their language
Equip your new employees, new managers, and those aspiring to be managers with the fundamentals to conduct business more effectively. This program is ideal for young managers, analysts, coordinators, and associates who do not have a business background or formal business education. While not a prerequisite for the Mini-MBA Series, this is an excellent steppingstone to the program designed for more senior and experienced managers.
The registration fee includes facilitation by our highly rated faculty members, course materials, results-oriented exercises, meal service (continental breakfast, lunch, and breaks) *, and a certificate of completion from the McGill Executive Institute.
*Meal service is included for in-person programs only.
Topics covered in this course
- Industry structures
- Socio-political elements of business environments
- Understanding global industry structures
- Understanding national economic systems
- Consumption and Investment
- Impacts of inflation and interest rates/exchange rates
- Competition policy
- Public finances, taxation, public debt
- Monetary Policy
- Carbon pricing
- Describing and understanding consumers
- Describing and understanding corporate buyers
- Understanding the dynamics of markets
- Understanding business operations
- A primer on business math – key process metrics
- Types of Organizational Structures
- Understanding Credits
- Understanding Debits
- Gaining overall knowledge of basic book keeping
- Understanding financial score keeping techniques for any organization
- Describing revenue sources in a market
- Understanding market share and how to measure organizational market performance
- Understanding the differences between the various types of revenue generated by an organization
- Managing your communications
- Understanding behaviour types
- Managing yourself
- Managing your networks
- Conflict resolution
- How to be a good team member
Course Leaders
Alex Boussetta
Miriam Carver
Julia Scott
Christopher Ragan
Claude Macdonald
Candidates are encouraged to reach out with any questions regarding the program. Email to:
Catherine Marcotte
catherine.marcotte@mcgill.ca