EMBA Module 2 - Postgraduate Diploma: Leading International Business Development (LIBD)
Module Structure
The Diploma module consists of an opening session of four days, four Friday-Sunday sessions, three tutoring and facilitation sessions, and a stipulated one-week international mission for data collection and interviewing in connection with the international Client Business Project. The postgraduate Diploma involves a total of 250 contact hours.
The Business Learning Part
The objective of the postgraduate Diploma is to develop participants’ understanding of major changes, drivers and key issues, shaping the context of company operations and to qualify the participants to develop an international business expansion strategy for a company.
This module involves an International Client Business Project prepared in groups. The group will analyse international sourcing, production, marketing, and distribution issues for the Client. The projects will deepen the understanding of that industry and the business analysis methods introduced in the postgraduate Certificate. Typically, the Client company will want to enter a new market, expand its business, or requires a company audit to guide its decision-making on new initiatives. The Business Part ends with a presentation of the project to the faculty and to the Client company.
The Leadership Learning Part
In this module, participants will identify the lessons learned about groups from working together in the postgraduate Certificate and the implications for building effective teamwork.
Participants will be asked to reflect upon what insights they have gained about their own personal leadership and group behaviour. Each individual will have the opportunity to experiment on new ways of behaving and thereby develop more effective group behaviour and new leadership skills in accordance with his/her personal development plan.
When doing the business project, participants will need to draw on the expertise of each other as well as on their own knowledge and experience. Each group, therefore, will have the opportunity to strive to become a high performance team. This provides an opportunity to put theoretical ideas about group dynamics into practice and to learn about when and how group processes facilitate high performance.
The personal leadership learning of the Diploma will be assessed by a presentation to the faculty of a report on the group process learning.
Module 2 Courses
- The Client Business Project
- International Markets
- Government Regulation & Trade
- Business Environment
- International Financial Market
- Presentation Technique
- Developing Team Leadership