3 Hour MBA

The Three-hour MBA is not just about management and leadership. You will also learn fundamental, essential business MBA skills. Skills like business strategy, marketing and decision-making – plus the essential skillls of leading, motivating and energising those that work with you. All with practical tools and checklists that enable you to get results ….fast.

Management isn’t getting any easier and in many cases the opportunities to get training are getting scarcer. So how can you get a thorough grounding in some key management models, business theories and tools quickly, easily and inexpensively? If only you could do an MBA in half a day! This intense yet understandable half day – will give you grouunding in the core MBA skills that some people take a year or more to learn.

“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

Give your leadership and management style a real boost. Our three-hour MBA gives you a wide range of resources. It gives you the ability to choose different ways to lead, know what key factors to pay attention to, understand your management styles and know how to motivate your staff. In short – 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

With his talent for making complex ideas easy to implement, Mike Clayton combines his practical instant results mind-set with solid practical knowledge based on twelve years at global management consultancy level, along with nine years of experience training and coaching managers and leaders.

“Mike Clayton is very animated and explains the concepts in an easy, concise understandable way”

Mike will enable you 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, colleagues, shareholders and others
• Put together a core marketing strategy
• Persuade the people who matter

“Mike was an excellent presenter. A really good seminar and took away loads of ideas”
Debra Fletcher, Commercial and Supply Chain Manager, Astra Zeneca

In The Three-hour MBA, you will learn…

• How to navigate organisational power bases
• To create 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 choose which one works for you
• 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.

“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.”

“the evidence suggests that the bite-sized workshop does deliver”
People Management Magazine

“Really useful! Condensed a difficult subject into ‘bitesize’ understandable chunks!”
Marie Morris, Community Relations Manager –“ Barclays

• 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