SENIOR MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME (SMP)
The GCPBS Senior Management Programme (SMP) is designed to enhance the efficiency of executives and increase their capacity for complex strategic thinking, proficient leadership and dynamic management. The programme is a carefully crafted set of peer group interactive sessions, where business peers and professionals from a wide range of functions, industries and countries share ideas and develop an enlightened perspective on the economy, business trends, and best practices, under the guidance of respected and renowned business leaders. The perfect opportunity to upgrade managerial skills and strategic thinking, participants will receive a clear understanding of current best practices, context and effective processes for successful leadership and understand proven methodologies to optimise management competence and increase self-management skills.
Programme Objectives
The programme aims to impart participants with a strong understanding of their roles, the skills he or she must bring into play and the styles and nuances of their behaviour and leadership style in the company. The programme will concentrate on best practice and the structure and nature of modern progressive organizations. It also aims to provide a refreshing, lively and interactive forum for genuine learning and a strong network across diverse positions, industries and countries.
Programme Benefits
By the end of the programme, participants should be able to have:
- Leadership skills that enhance effective collaboration
- Deeper understanding of the factors that caused organizational dysfunction and how to change them
- Mastery of the business vocabulary and skills applicable to any type of business and non-business organization
- An appreciation of how the world’s invincible companies have evolved in recent years, and of the responsibility the modern CEO role carries
- A clear understanding of best practice, and the structure and nature of modern progressive organizations
- A critical assessment of how individual CEOs add real value to organization, and how to enhance their contribution
- Recognition of the range of challenges CEOs must address, and how to manage them
- Fruitful interaction and networking amongst a high‐powered peer group.
For Who?
The SMP is specifically designed for members of the top management level in Organisations: General Managers, Deputy General Managers, Assistant General Managers who are responsible for strategic planning and development within their companies.
This programme will bring together an optimum mix of practitioners and faculty with experience across diverse industries.
Key Features
The key feature in the programme will be a modular programme in Garden City Premier Business School (GCPBS). In this programme, participants will be able to share insights and knowledge with other entrepreneurs from Rivers State, Nigeria, as well as broaden their networks and identify opportunities to expand their business beyond the Niger Delta.
Programme Delivery
The Senior Management Programme is a non-residential modular programme of four modules, which runs for 12 weeks over a 4-month period with one day every week for class sessions. Part of the Programme will take place in Nigeria and the other part in a designated American or European Country.
Due to the busy working schedules of participants, the SMP is flexibly designed to be delivered in a multi-modular format, offering participants a unique opportunity to undertake substantial learning and development that can be fitted into their professional and personal life. The case methodology will be a primary tool for delivery of course material, in addition to thought-provoking lectures and enlightening group discussions. Participants are awarded a Certificate upon completion of the programme
Modules
Module 1 – Social and Business Environment
- Speed Reading
- Analysis of Business Problem
- Management Communication
- Social and Political Environment of Business
- Managing Economic Risk
Module 2 – Business and Finance
- Business Law
- Corporate Financial Accounting
- Cost & Management Accounting
- Finance Workshop
- Personality Testing
- Financial Intelligence
- Nature of Man
Module 3 – Leadership and People Management
- Social Etiquette
- Emotional and Social Intelligence
- Negotiation
- People Management
- Leadership
- Team Building
Module 4 – Strategy and Sustainability
- Business Ethics
- Sustainability Learning Journeys
- Marketing Management
- Strategic Management
Module 5 – Business Operations and Innovations
- Design Thinking and Innovation
- Project Management
- Digital Transformation
- Operations Management
- Business Strategy Game
- Executive Challenge
Programme Fee
The fee is N5,000,000 (Five Million Naira Only). An initial deposit of 70% of the programme fee is required to secure a place once admission is offered.
