Professional Development (MBA)

This skills development based course is designed to help full-time MBA participants enhance their leadership capability and professional competence as well as their potential to develop strong employability skills and successfully pitch for senior executive roles in a range of organisations. An underpinning tenant of the course will be to develop students, ability to reflect on their learning using appropriate tools and techniques to produce a meaningful and viable learning agenda which will also help develop their critical thinking ability, identify their strengths and weaknesses and explore different approaches and ideas towards their thinking and learning on the MBA programme. The course also aims to introduce (using relevant academic theory and contemporary examples) areas and themes that impact on personal development, for example organisational learning, resilience, gender, communication, technology and wellbeing. This will be in the context of contemporary issues faced by senior managers and leaders in the current global business environment. Guest speakers from a range of diverse industries will provide further context and highlight the issues and challenges that can impact on their professional development. Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate