Get the key business skills you need for your management role in the Mining Industry


Highlights:
• Understand the mining industry and the strategies of key international mining companies
• Use Blue Ocean Thinking to explore new ideas and strategies
• Learn how to make better financial and investment decisions

Key Competences:
• Strategic leadership
• Competitive strategies
• Operational excellence
• International finance
• Strategy roadmapping
• Managerial economics

The 5-Day Mini MBA for the Mining Industry is a 5-days hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.

 

• 5 Programme Modules:

1 - Leadership
• Leadership competences and organizational success
• Leadership characteristics of successful leaders: Learning from the best
• Emotional intelligence and personal impact
• Leadership in a global context and in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world
• Leadership in a culturally diverse environment
• Leadership through disruptive change and innovation
• Evening work: reading

2 -  Strategy & Marketing
• Strategy roadmap and competitive strategy: The mining market and strategies of international mining companies
• Blue Ocean Thinking: A management method of creating business strategies based on the idea that every enterprise can achieve higher profit by creating new demand in non-competitive markets.
• Innovation and strategic agility
• Marketing and sales: Insight selling and negotiating to win
• Evening work: reading

3 - Operational Excellence
• Select the right Organizational Design
• Technology trends in mining: Automation, robots, and IoT technology
• Manage projects and mining operations efficiently
• Manage and develop your staff and communicate across the organization
• Mining exploration, development and production
• Production contracts and projects: Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) strategies and contracting
• Financial Statements – Profit & Loss Statement (P&L)

4 - International Finance
• Understand mining finance basics
• International financial markets: Rules and principles of contracting
• Make better investment decisions
• Manage Joint Venture finance
• Final evening assignment (reading)

5 - International & Managerial Economics
• Geopolitics in the mining sectors
• Resource owners, mining contracts, tax regimes and local content
• International and managerial economics: key social and economic phenomena, developments, and their impact on organizations and businesses
• Entering foreign markets: the 3 steps to enter foreign markets
• Bringing it all together: your key learnings.
• Preparation for the knowledge test.

You have been working in the mining industry for 5+ years. You have an engineering, technical, scientific or specific role and are moving into a commercial or management position. This is the ideal programme for you.
 

Typical Participants:

• Managers
• New Managers