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Master Class in Business Administration

Mission, strategy, business plan, objectives, organization and processes form a single chain. In an eight-hour workshop you walk the whole of it, with real cases and the experience of someone who has managed it, and you leave with the factors that decide whether a company works.

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  • 8 hours over two afternoons, in person in Madrid
  • For managers: from the CEO to the team lead
  • Interactive workshop: we work on the attendees' own cases
  • Small group: 15 people at most
  • Taught by Javier Pascual

Hands-on, applied training

A company is a chain. It breaks at the link nobody is watching.

Running a company, a department or a team means deciding with incomplete information about things that are connected: strategy shapes the organization, the organization shapes the processes, the processes shape the results, and the results feed back into strategy.

This master class walks that chain from end to end and stops where it tends to break: the challenges, threats and success factors of the organization, of processes and their digitalization, of management by objectives, of the business plan, of people's motivation and of change.

It is a workshop, not a lecture. The syllabus adapts to the time available and to the needs of the people in the room.

Several people taking notes around a table during a working meeting

Who it is for

Who is this course for?

Profile

Managers in general. We cover management factors that affect everyone from the CEO to the most junior manager in the company: those who run a business, those who lead a department and those who have just taken on a team.

Where you are today

You need no previous training in business administration. You need experience of your own to put on the table: the workshop works when attendees share their cases, and the content is adjusted to the audience of each edition.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course you will be able to

Connect the chain

Establish how mission, strategy, business plan and objectives relate to the design of the organization and of the processes it needs.

Read the organization

Understand current trends in hierarchy and in cross-functional operations.

Identify success factors

Identify the success factors of the company as a whole and of each function in particular, depending on the length agreed for the edition.

Manage and control

Connect the different functions with the management and control of the business.

Coordinate functions

Recognize where functions need to work across boundaries and coordinate with each other.

Syllabus

The full syllabus

Eight blocks: challenges, threats and success factors in managing a company, from organization to delegation.

From mission to organization: hierarchy and cross-functional work

  • Mission, strategy, business plan, objectives, organization and processes
  • Challenges and success factors of the organization itself
  • Trends in hierarchy and cross-functional operations
  • Exercise: the coherence chain

Processes, digitalization and automation

  • Processes and how functions coordinate around them
  • Digitalizing and automating processes
  • Risk factors, with examples
  • Exercise: which process do I automate first?

Management by objectives: from the vision to each person

  • Vision, mission and strategic pillars
  • Priorities for the company, the department and each individual
  • Rollout and follow-up
  • Exercise: cascading objectives

The five-year business plan and the dashboard

  • How to build a five-year business plan
  • How to track it
  • What a management dashboard should look like
  • Exercise: your five-year business plan

Motivation, communicating the plan and remote work

  • Employee motivation
  • Tracking the business plan and communicating how it is going
  • The impact of remote work on motivation
  • Solutions and remedies

Change: knowing when it is due and getting ahead of it

  • How to know when it is time to change
  • How to get ahead of it
  • Exercise: signals of change

The manager's job: the urgent, the important and the calendar

  • The manager's functions and their success factors
  • Telling the urgent from the important
  • Managing your calendar and your time
  • Exercise: an audit of your calendar

Company success factors: delegation and empowerment

  • General success factors of a company
  • How to reach a good level of delegation and empowerment
  • Success factors by department, as a follow-up phase
  • Exercise: the levels of delegation

Methodology

How the course is taught

Format

An interactive, in-person workshop. Eight hours over two afternoons is the minimum length; both the length and the syllabus are adjusted to the time available and to the needs of the audience.

Approach

Questions are put to the group and attendees share their own experience. In each area the instructor adds his own: examples, results both good and bad, guidance and success factors.

Who teaches it

Javier Pascual. In the workshop he shares his management experience, with examples, results both good and bad, guidance and success factors in each area, rather than academic theory.

Requirements

None of a technical nature. The workshop is designed for most attendees to take part in person: come with a case from your own company in mind.

Why The Singular Academy?

A workshop, not a lecture

The session is built on questions and on the cases attendees bring.

Management experience

Real examples, including what went well and what went wrong.

A syllabus fitted to the group

The content adapts to the time available and to the people in the room.

Virtual Classroom support

Eight blocks with lessons, seven interactive exercises and exams with explained answers, to prepare and review.

Key facts

Practical information

Price and enrollment

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A small group with personal attention, secure payment and immediate confirmation by email.

Price per person

€195

VAT not included. Final price with VAT: €235.95

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  • 8 hours of in-person workshop over two afternoons
  • Eight blocks of material in the Virtual Classroom
  • Seven interactive exercises to apply it to your company
  • An exam with explained answers in every block

The group

From the workshop to the company

Singular Beacon

Putting processes in order and digitalizing them is what Singular Beacon does every day for its clients. If, after the workshop, your organization also needs the project itself, the group that trained you is the one that delivers it.

See digitalization at Singular Beacon

Walk the whole chain with someone who has managed it

Check the schedule and reserve your seat, or write to us if you want to bring the master class to your company.

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