presents American Management Association Seminars
AMA'S 5-DAY MBA
Seminar No: 02561 -XNBB
CEU Credits: 3
Length: 5 days
An intensive, week-long learning experience that gives you a thorough grounding in the essential elements of a high-level MBA program.
In a business climate that demands excellence every time out, you need the variety of skills that lead to outstanding performance in every aspect of your job.
This accelerated week-long presentation distills the “core curriculum” covered in most university-level graduate business programs. The knowledge you acquire will provide you with a strong business foundation and enable you to function more effectively and efficiently in today’s business environment.
In this interactive, accelerated learning experience you’ll discover how various components of a business must be linked, aligned and integrated into a successful business system. And you’ll gain a firm grasp of modern business management practices.
You’ll come away with an effective framework of knowledge for making informed business decisions and the ability to identify the most effective business tools and strategies to help your company remain competitive.
Each of the five seminar sessions discusses the key concepts of a business and brings that subject to life with practical examples and case studies.
10 More Reasons to Take AMA’s “Mini-MBA”
1. Broaden your overall management perspective
2. Maintain your competitive advantage
3. Achieve your personal and organizational goals
4. Refresh your knowledge base
5. Refocus on the critical areas of business accounting, economics and finance, marketing and competitive strategy and management leadership and organization
6. Hone your skills to act more strategically
7. Develop a network of high-level business contacts
8. Develop a leadership style that works for you
9. Understand and use operating statements, balance sheets and other essential financial data
10. Play a more influential role in your company’s decision-making process
Attendees:
Anyone interested in obtaining an effective, broad-based overview of the functional areas often covered in university-level MBA programs.
How You Will Benefit:
- Discover how all components of a business fit together and what it takes to be successful
- Read and understand financial statements and analyze the financial health of a business
- Gain insights into the economy and its impact on your business
- Develop a business strategy to establish a sustainable competitive position
- Learn the language of business and communicate effectively on business matters to any audience level
- Develop an effective organization and successfully manage people
- Enjoy an invaluable peer-to-peer learning experience
What You Will Cover:
- Management, leadership and the cohesive organization
- Developing, implementing and controlling the business plan
- Human capital, performance and organizational dynamics
- Creating and sustaining a competitive edge with the right marketing plan
- Financial reporting and financial statements
- Major economic indicators
Extended/Detailed Seminar Outline
Learning Objectives
- Understand How All Components of a Business Fit Together and What It Takes to Be Successful
- Read and Understand Financial Statements and Analyze the Financial Health of a Business
- Understand the Economy and Determine Its Impact on Your Business
- Develop a Business Strategy and Establish a Sustainable Competitive Position
- Understand the Language of Business and Learn to Communicate Effectively on Business Matters to Any Audience Level
- Develop an Effective Organization and Successfully Manage People
- Enjoy an Invaluable Peer-to-Peer Learning Experience
Accounting
- Understand Basic Accounting Concepts and Their Relevance to the Workplace
- Understand the Accounting Process and Its Impact on Their Area of the Business
- Analyze a Set of Financial Statements and Evaluate the Business' Financial Health
- Know the Financial Performance Measures They Affect and How to Improve Them
Finance
- Apply the Commonly Used Business Unit Performance Measures to Your Business
- Understand the Financing Alternatives Available to a Business and Their Pros and Cons
- Analyze a Business Unit’s Costs and Identify Means of Improving Profitability
- Evaluate Capital Projects to Determine if They Are Practical and Desirable from a Financial Perspective
Strategy
- Understand Basic Concepts and the Importance of Developing a Competitive Strategy
- Apply a Strategic Framework to Develop a Sustainable Competitive Strategy
- Compare, Contrast and Assess Your Competitor’s Strategy
- Understand and Use Selected Analytical and Strategic Tools
- Develop Alternative Strategies and Be Able to Evaluate and Select the Best One(s)
- Successfully Deploy and Communicate Your Strategy within Your Company
Marketing
- Understand the Role of Marketing and the Marketing Perspective
- Understand What Marketing Does, Its Tools and Thought Processes
- Understand the 5 Ps of Marketing: Positioning, Product, Pricing, Placement (Distribution) and Promotion and Their Importance to Business Success
- Understand the Changes and Trends Affecting the 5 Ps and Approaches to Better Manage Their Impact in the Marketplace
- Apply Some of the Tools of Marketing to Each of the 5 Ps
- Understand How to Better Interact with Marketing
Management
- Understand the Principal Roles of a Manager and the Basic Functions of Management
- Analyze and Understand Leadership Styles for Use in Day-to-Day Applications
- Apply Different Approaches to Motivation for Back-on-the-Job Situations
- Understand Teams and Other Organizational Designs
- Close Employee Performance Gaps
- Take Steps to Institute More Durable Organizational Changes
Start and End times: first day - 8:30am-5pm, all other days 9am-5pm unless otherwise specified. Your registration confirmation notice will confirm the hotel/conference center for the seminar for which you registered. The information included on this page is all the information available on this seminar. Please use form below to register only. To request information that is not included above please send an email to
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AMA's main conference centers
Seminars scheduled for the cities below are held at the locations listed below. For location information for other cities in which AMA seminars are held please call or email for information.
New York
AMA executive Conference Center
1601 Broadway New York, NY 10019
American Management Association (Located in the same building as the Crowne Plaza Hotel) 1601 Broadway On Broadway and 48th Street near Times Square. Entrance is on 48th Street.
Chicago
AMA executive Conference Center (adjacent to the Marroitt O'Hare)
8655 west higgins rd
Chicago, IL 60631
San Francisco
AMA executive Conference Center is located in San Francisco Marriott Hotel
55 Fourth Street 2nd Level
San Francisco, CA 94103
Atlanta
AMA Executive Conference Center
Address: 1170 Peachtree Street Ne Cnr Peachtree & 14th (3rd Flr)
City, State, Zip: Atlanta, GA 30309
Washington, DC
Arlington, Virginia
2345 Crystal Drive, Suite 200
Arlington, VA 22202
If you are not paying via credit card, you will receive an invoice with payment instructions.
Cancellation Policy:
If you cannot attend a seminar you can contact AMA in advance to transfer to a future session, or you can send someone to take your place. If you need to cancel your attendance, AMA will give you a complete refund if you cancel more than three weeks before your seminar begins. To cancel, simply email us at
. If you cancel with less than three weeks’ advance notice, you will be liable for the entire seminar fee. Once your payment has been received, you may request a courtesy transfer to use at any future AMA seminar of equal or lesser length. The courtesy transfer must be used within one year of the date of your originally scheduled seminar. In fairness to all attendees, if you do not attend a seminar session for which you are confirmed and do not contact AMA to cancel in advance, you will be charged the entire seminar fee.
AMA grants courtesy transfers to people who cannot attend their scheduled sessions. You can use a courtesy transfer for any seminar of equal or lesser length than the original seminar. You must use your courtesy transfer within one year of the date of your originally scheduled seminar.
AMA guarantees the quality of our seminars. If, for any reason, you are not satisfied with a seminar for which you have paid, AMA will give you credit toward another seminar of comparable price or will refund your fee.
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