Welcome to Kaplan Hawksmere’s flagship programme

This fast-track senior management development programme has been designed for high performance managers like you – who work in critical roles and need an intensive course to cover the key areas that drive profit in business today! This course is a must-attend event for all senior managers, departmental and functional managers and directors preparing for, or already in, a senior or strategic management position.

Is it the right programme for me?
If you have the drive and vision to take your current role to the next level, and you want to distinguish yourself as a truly high-performance manager, then this is the right programme for you!

What’s in it for me?
You will gain a complete and thorough grounding in all the critical management functions including strategy, marketing, finance, people management and integrated management. By the end of the week you will have worked through several case studies, made numerous contacts and heard from some of the best business trainers in the field today!

What’s in it for my company?
Not only will you have completed our fast-track management development programme, but by the end of the five days you will have a complete strategic business plan which you can take back to the workplace and start implementing immediately!

Why choose the 5 Day MBA?
As leaders in senior management training, Kaplan Hawksmere has developed this programme in a five day residential format using the core principles of a business school MBA. This residential format allows delegates to overcome their day-to-day operational demands and focus on developing themselves and their business.

Whether you are considering attending this programme yourself or recommending it to your colleagues, ‘The 5 day MBA!’™ – developing the high performance manager, enables delegates to transform their skills immediately and inject new vigour into their role. The investment in these five days will prove as rewarding as it has done for thousands before you. We look forward to welcoming you on the programme soon and our customer services team would be delighted to help if you have any questions regarding the course, just call us now on 0845 833 3212.

Annabel Davies
Director, Kaplan Hawksmere

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Turning ideas into business success

Individuals within companies are full of creative ideas for business success. Turning these ideas into results needs a better vehicle, a process, a way of thinking to structure the thoughts of those aspiring to become a truly high performance manager. In these five vital days we will help you to understand your business, or business area, make solid decisions and then implement those decisions for business and personal success:

1 Understand the business

• Get a thorough insight into the business from its many different dimensions
• Discover the different options open to you for achieving business objectives and targets
• For each business issue – appreciate the links between the different functional areas

2 Make decisions

• Decide or propose for decision with conviction and confidence
• Plan for improvement and success – clear logical and coherent planning
• Be committed and get commitment from others on the decisions and plans

3 Implement improvement changes

• Having understood and decided, go to action with greater confidence
• Manage the constraints and opportunities
• Manage and lead individuals and teams in making it all work
• Measure the progress of your actions and adjust the course to remain on target

Turning the learning into results – your business case

During the programme we will cover many tools, techniques and concepts. Their true value however is in being able to apply them to your real business. How will we achieve this? In workshop teams you will choose a real business to start up, grow or acquire. Each evening we will apply the techniques learned to this business idea through to planning. In this way the conversion of learning to usage is more certain and provides a fun way to learn.

As someone committed to your own personal success in business and the success of your organisation, I look forward to welcoming you on this programme and to help you to develop your career as a high-performance manager, the investment in these five days will prove as rewarding as it has done for thousands before you!

Sanjeev Loomba,
Programme Director