Advanced Management Skills

Progress your career by cultivating the hard skills of business

This fast-paced program provides an integrated understanding of the hard skills of business: financial management, operations, performance management, marketing and strategy. Get a holistic view of decision making in business and an advanced perspective on managing increasingly complex organizations. Increase your capabilities in a variety of business functions by engaging in applied, skill-building exercises.

Designed as a stand-alone program, Advanced Management Skills is also an invaluable next step for those who have taken our foundational program Essential Management Skills. Expand your executive potential, as award-winning faculty from the UBC Sauder School of Business challenge you to stretch beyond your current horizons.

Takeaways

• Appreciate the interrelationships between multiple functional areas
• Acquire new insights and perspectives, for a more sophisticated view of business complexities
• Deepen your understanding of analytical processes
• Improve the quality of your business decisions
• Evaluate business challenges and opportunities
• Cultivate a high-level strategic approach to business management
• Increase your skill set in a variety of areas
• Deliver value to your organization on many levels
• Learn from award-winning UBC Sauder School of Business MBA faculty

Course Content

• Integrating your perspective on business
• Financial accounting: overview of balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements
• Operations: overview of operations management, managing business process flows and supply chains, increasing efficiency and lowering costs, resource management
• Performance management: best practices, connecting performance goals to competitive strategy, measuring performance, managing performance problems, the influence of compensation on performance
• Marketing: analyzing external and internal environments, segmenting customers, building value propositions and centering your market position, using the marketing mix
• Strategy: analyzing external forces that shape the marketplace, identifying your organization's true competitive advantage, aligning functional disciplines with corporate strategy
• Integration: putting it all together through action-learning exercises