UKZN Business School Short Courses and Outreach Courses

This course aims to unscrabble the conundrums of reading financial statements, capital budgeting and the importance of cash flow. It will provide a more structured approach to sales and product forecasting, budgeting, and measurement of performance against budgets. This course will empower you, and give you confidence when communicating with accounting and finance people in your organisation.

Finance for Non-Financial Managers

Management Development Programme (MDP)

The Management Development Programme (MDP) provides companies with the opportunity to grow the potential of new and aspiring managers. These employees are often tasked with taking short to middle-term decisions and need skills and knowledge to make effective decisions. This programme is designed to facilitate an understanding of, and the ability to integrate and apply the key competencies required for each of the functional areas of business.

The MDP is a practical programme aimed at empowering the middle manager and providing a platform to facilitate his/her development within their business environment. It is largely learner centred, drawing on participants’ experience and inherent ability to mould valuable leadership traits.

Management Development Programme

Managing for Impact Programme (MIP)

New and developing managers need both content and process skills and knowledge to manage effectively in their organisations. They typically have some expertise in a specia list field before being appointed to a management position and have not had the opportunity to develop people management and process skills to optimise productivity and performance in their organisations. Delegates attending the MIP will learn about delivering results for impact through people in a competitive business and market environment. The programme is designed to provide new managers with opportunities to develop their skills and confidence, to be effective in their role as managers.