Why choose this programme?
The Professional Diploma in Management will make you a better, more confident manager.
You’ll walk away armed with a comprehensive, practical and critical overview of best-practice management allowing you to understand and effectively collaborate with colleagues across different business functions.
Excel
Acquire the skills you need to excel at management and apply your new knowledge in your day-to-day work.
Influence
Develop a deeper understanding of people, their behaviour at work and the culture of organisations.
Collaborate
Collaborate more effectively across business functions.
In Brief
Location – Dublin:
Next start date - Dublin:
Duration: On-site:
Facilitated Workshops:
Seniority:
Non-member fee: Member fee: SME fee:
Facilitated Workshop 1: 05, 06, 07 May 2020
Facilitated Workshop 2: 02, 03, 04 Jun 2020
Facilitated Workshop 3: 30 Jun, 01, 02 Jul 2020
Facilitated Workshop 4: 01, 02, 03 Sep 2020
Facilitated Workshop 5: 06, 07, 08 Oct 2020
Facilitated Workshop 6: 10, 11, 12 Nov 2020
You can look forward to:
Executive coaching
You will be offered a one-to-one executive coaching session to develop a bespoke personal action plan to accelerate your professional development.
Guest seminars with visiting experts
These sessions will give you the opportunity to analyse and discuss contemporary management issues with seasoned business experts.
Action learning
At IMI, we use intensively practical classroom exercises and group activities to accelerate the transfer of learning back to the workplace.
Networking with a diverse class group.
You’ll work closely with your class colleagues in team activities and organised study groups and will leave the programme with a valuable network of business contacts.
Programmes themes
- Enhance your strategic and leadership abilities and learn how to drive change in a team and an organisation.
- Conduct strategic analysis and apply your knowledge to create a sustainable competitive advantage — even in challenging environments.
- Create an effective market analysis and learn segmentation, targeting and positioning techniques.
- Learn how to build a brand strategy.
- Explore the digital ecosystem of your organisation and the external environment.
- Gain practical insights into finance — understand balance sheets and profit and loss.
- Learn about financial strategy and how to do a break-even analysis.
- Use ratio analysis and other techniques to measure organisational performance.
- Discover how to develop and implement a HR strategy.
- Evaluate your organisation’s HR processes and learn how to align it to the leadership strategy.
- Explore the impact of effective leadership on organisational culture, and learn how to shape it.
- Improve your ability to motivate individuals and groups.
- Learn how to build effective teams and drive individual and organisational change.
- Master the art of professional presentations and learn how to influence through them.
- Learn how to use body language to influence those around you.
- Develop excellent listening skills and learn how to handle critical conversations.
Key takeaways
Collaborate
Drive new projects across different business functions. Develop your understanding of the major management functions and best management practice across your organisation.
Professional Management
Acquire (or refresh) the skills and knowledge required of a professional manager. Enhance your strategic and leadership abilities and learn how to drive change in a team and an organisation.
Deliver Value
Deliver significant return on investment for your organisation, by applying best practice tools and techniques in your day-to-day work.
What our graduates say
This programme will bring you to the depths of personal self-discovery in a challenging way. An innovative and powerfully self-reflective programme that will change how you lead others and principally yourself.Pat RyanProcess Excellence Manager, Glanbia Ireland
