Short courses
Click here for the provisional Executive Education Short Courses Calendar for 2010.
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Managing Managers for Results
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Being a manager of managers requires a different, and new, level of management expertise and insight. This decisive transition to enabling managers to achieve results entails handling a greater span of control, and along with this comes greater accountability and more risks. You have to come to terms with being even further removed from the sites where your business is actually happening. Your determination and personal energy need to find ways of permeating through several levels of management
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Executive Education
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Career Development Programmes
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| Faculty: |
Sarah Babb and Guest Speaker: Nicola Tyler
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| Start Date |
14 September 2010
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| Arrival Time |
08:00
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08:30
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| End Date: |
16 September 2010
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| End Time: |
17:00
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| Venue: |
Gordon Institute of Business Science, 26 Melville Road, Illovo
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| Contact name: |
Alison Reid
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| Contact tel: |
011 771 4219
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| Fees: |
R 16250.00
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Board Leadership Programme
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This three-day programme exposes participants to the latest thinking on board leadership. Concepts and available tools in the procedural area as well as process considerations of board leadership are addressed. The focus is on learning the technical aspects with faculty utilising appropriate case studies (local and international) and the process aspect is driven by current board members candidly sharing their experiences and knowledge.
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Executive Education
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| Topic: |
Leadership and Personal Skills
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| Faculty: |
Prof John Ford and several key speakers
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| Start Date |
04 October 2010
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| Arrival Time |
08:00
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08:30
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| End Date: |
06 October 2010
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| End Time: |
17:00
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| Venue: |
Gordon Institute of Business Science, 26 Melville Road, Illovo
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| Contact name: |
Ginny Robertson
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| Contact tel: |
011 771 4131
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| Fees: |
R 14575.00
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Personal Leadership Programme
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How has the world changed since the start of the economic crisis? What are the new demands placed on leaders in the new business environment? How can leaders take care of themselves at a time of unprecedented change? What can I learn from feedback from others? Who am I as a leader, and what are my strengths and weaknesses. These questions, and others, will be discussed in this high level two-day workshop and one-day follow-up session for executives.
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| Category: |
Executive Education
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| Topic: |
Leadership and Personal Skills
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| Faculty: |
Prof David Beaty and Prof Karl Hofmeyr
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| Start Date |
07 October 2010
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08:00
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08:30
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| End Date: |
08 October 2010
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| End Time: |
17:00
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| Venue: |
Gordon Institute of Business Science, 26 Melville Road, Illovo, Sandton
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| Contact name: |
Giselle dos Santos
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| Contact tel: |
011 771 4133
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| Fees: |
R 15950.00
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Building Business in Low Income Markets – The Case of Insurance
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Existing insurance business models have yet to fully harness the potential of the low income mass market. If approached correctly with innovative and sustainable business models this market sector offers significant growth opportunity, particularly in those economies where middle and upper income markets are reaching saturation point.
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Executive Education
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| Topic: |
Marketing and Sales
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| Start Date |
11 October 2010
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| Arrival Time |
08:00
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| Start Time |
08:30
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| End Date: |
14 October 2010
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| End Time: |
17:00
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| Venue: |
Gordon Institute of Business Science, 26 Melville Rd, Illovo, Johannesburg
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| Contact name: |
Giselle dos Santos
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| Contact tel: |
+27 (0) 11 771 4133
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| Fees: |
R 16000.00
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Achieving Success in Strategic Customer Management
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Achieving success in strategic customer management means an organisation must become truly customer-centric: striving to understand the full range of factors that affect a customer’s experience of the organisation and its products, and seeking genuine, original insights into the needs and behaviours of those customers in order to gain competitive advantage. This programme focuses on the critical requirements for a successful and effective customer management strategy.
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| Category: |
Executive Education
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| Topic: |
Marketing and Sales
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| Faculty: |
Professor Moira Clark
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| Start Date |
12 October 2010
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| Arrival Time |
08:00
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| Start Time |
08:30
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| End Date: |
14 October 2010
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| End Time: |
17:00
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| Venue: |
Gordon Institute of Business Science, 26 Melville Road, Illovo, Sandton
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| Contact name: |
Giselle dos Santos
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| Contact tel: |
+27 (0) 11 771 4133
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| Fees: |
R 16900.00
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Finance for Non-Financial Managers
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The Finance for Non-financial Managers course empowers managers to more effectively communicate with accounting and finance people and to better understand the financial aspects of business decisions. Many operating managers have had limited exposure to financial data, are afraid of accounting statements and need to know more about this important business function. This course aims to "lift the veil".
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| Category: |
Executive Education
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| Topic: |
Finance
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| Faculty: |
Prof Mike Ward and Prof John Ford
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| Start Date |
18 October 2010
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| Arrival Time |
08:00
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| Start Time |
08:30
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| End Date: |
21 October 2010
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| End Time: |
17:00
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| Venue: |
Gordon Institute of Business Science, 26 Melville Rd, Illovo, Johannesburg
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| Contact name: |
Giselle dos Santos
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| Contact tel: |
011 771 4133
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| Fees: |
R 15900.00
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Managing for Results
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Perhaps the greatest leap in a manager’s career is the first one into management. You have to let go of the comfort of technical excellence and embrace the concept of succeeding through the work of others. These others are dependent on you for direction, coaching, discipline and energy. Their success is your success; and it is your job to ensure they do not fail.
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| Category: |
Executive Education
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| Topic: |
Career Development Programmes
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| Faculty: |
Terrence Taylor and Lanier Convington
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| Start Date |
19 October 2010
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| Arrival Time |
08:00
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08:30
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| End Date: |
21 October 2010
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| End Time: |
17:00
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| Venue: |
Gordon Institute of Business Science, 26 Melville Rd, Illovo, Johannesburg
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| Contact name: |
Alison Reid
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| Contact tel: |
011 771 4219
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| Fees: |
R 11900
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Optimising Investment Strategies and Portfolio Management
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In volatile and complex markets, it is increasingly challenging to design an optimal investment portfolio for your organisation, your clients, or yourself. You are presented with diverse opportunities in emerging markets, real estate, hedge funds, derivatives, and other alternative investments. As the choices increase, shaping, managing, and monitoring investment portfolios becomes more complicated. Which investments will generate the highest returns without exposing you to excessive risk?
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| Category: |
Executive Education
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| Topic: |
Finance
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| Faculty: |
Prof Mike Ward and Chris Muller
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| Start Date |
01 November 2010
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08:00
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08:30
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| End Date: |
04 November 2010
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| End Time: |
17:00
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| Venue: |
Gordon Institute of Business Science, 26 Melville Rd, Illovo, Johannesburg
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| Contact name: |
Deborah Fisher
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| Contact tel: |
011 771 4150
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| Fees: |
R 18000.00
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Achieving Real ROI from your HR Capability
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Studies show that less than 15% of all training has any impact at all on job performance, not to mention bottom-line business results.
During this highly engaging programme, which includes interactive team exercises, you will discover why many training initiatives fall short in producing the required business impact. You will be introduced to a strategic model for implementing and evaluating training that will allow you to demonstrably leverage training into measurable business results.
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| Category: |
Executive Education
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| Topic: |
Human Resources Management
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| Faculty: |
Dr Robert Brinkerhoff
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| Start Date |
01 November 2010
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| Arrival Time |
08:00
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08:30
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| End Date: |
01 November 2010
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| End Time: |
17:00
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| Venue: |
Gordon Institute of Business Science, 26 Melville Road, Illovo
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| Contact name: |
Natasha Bishum
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| Contact tel: |
011 771 4368
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| Fees: |
R 4900.00
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Social Media and Effective Communication Strategies
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Online and mobile technologies have revolutionised the way that people communicate and do business globally. The emergence of cloud computing ushers in new opportunities for organisational efficiencies, and personal productivity. Social media is a communications revolution that enables many-to-many communications. Mobile connectivity allows people to conduct business anywhere, any time. These technologies are driving social, cultural and economic shifts.
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| Category: |
Executive Education
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| Topic: |
Marketing and Sales
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| Faculty: |
Luisa Mazinter and David Duarte
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| Start Date |
02 November 2010
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| Arrival Time |
08:00
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08:30
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| End Date: |
03 November 2010
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| End Time: |
17:00
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| Venue: |
Gordon Institute of Business Science, 26 Melville Rd, Illovo, Johannesburg
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| Contact name: |
Deborah Fisher
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| Contact tel: |
011 771 4150
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| Fees: |
R 9900.00
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Podcasts
Prof. John Langley
Operations and Supply Chain Management
 
Dr Peter Finkelstein
Designing your Sales Strategy
Mr Jack Quinlan
The Expert Negotiator
Prof Theo Vermaelen
Advanced Valuation Techniques
Dr Keith Goodall
Using HR for competitive advantage
Prof Mike Ward
Finance for Non Financial Managers
Prof Karl Hofmeyr
Personal Leadership Plan
Dr Norman Chorn
Leading Transformation and Renewal
Dr Jack Goodwin
Relentless Execution Turning Strategy into Action
Dr Dennis Cohen
Effective Project Leadership
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