Overview
To gain a competitive advantage in today’s talent-driven economy, organisations must build a sustainable talent pipeline. Organisations need to develop early-career high potential talent into tomorrow’s leaders. The future success of today’s organisation depends on the organisation’s ability to prepare promising professionals to handle challenges associated with navigating the increasingly complex organisational and market terrain. The design of the Management Acceleration Programme draws from Lagos Business School’s experience in creating transformational learning experiences for high potential managers over the last three decades, as well as practical insights from experienced talent managers. It is designed to enhance emerging leaders’ performance readiness, fast-track their careers and accelerate their impact on the organisation. On successful completion of this programme, participants are admitted into the prestigious Lagos Business School Alumni Association.
Learning Objectives and Benefits
To prepare the emergent leader for the rudiments of leadership. This programme will help the participants to understand the internal and external business environment. Participants will have the unique benefit of gaining new business perspectives through interaction with a multi-disciplinary faculty who have real-life experience at senior levels in multinational organisations. It considers that the participants in this class will return for the Senior Management Programme at Lagos Business School after two or three years.
At the end of the programme, participants will:
- Become competent and confident managers equipped to deal with business challenges
- Develop clear aims and plans for ongoing personal and professional development
- Build your self-awareness through personalised coaching intervention.
Who should attend
- Participants should have at least 3 – 5 years experience in roles of increasing responsibility.
- Individuals identified as possible future leaders
- Technical experts transitioning to management roles
- High performing individuals being prepared for demanding developmental assignments
- New managers taking on leadership responsibilities for the first time.
- High performing emergent leaders identified as having the potential to influence their organisation’s future success
- Highly motivated young professionals on management associate, graduate trainee, and other early career development programmes.
Structure and Curriculum
Our integrated curriculum has been restructured to be delivered through three modules each with themes representing the courses within it. The programme rests on the bedrocks of Self-leadership, Teamwork, Emergent Team Leadership and Intrapreneurship.
Module 1: The Big Picture
- Introduction to Strategy: The big picture
- Understanding the Economy
- Digital Business Transformation
- Business and Management Ethics
- Understanding Change
- The Corporate Brand
- Understanding Finance and Strategy Practices in Africa
- Understanding People and Cultural Practices in Africa
Module 2: Inside the Business
- Fundamentals of Accounting
- Fundamentals of Finance
- Introduction to Supply Chain Management
- Introduction to Marketing
- Fundamentals of Decision Making
- Introduction to Project management:
What is a Project? - People Management
- Engaging and Doing International Business
- Remote and Virtual Work – Challenges and Opportunities
Module 3: Self in the Business
- Self-Leadership (includes a personality assessment debrief)
- Personal Branding
- Intrapreneurship (Corporate Entrepreneurship)
- Teamwork
- Emergent Team Leadership
- Management communication
- Power and Politics in Organisations
- Personal Development Planning
Mode of Delivery
The Management Acceleration Programme runs for three weeks over three months with one week every month for class sessions.
Admission process
- Complete an application form online or make a request to execedsales@lbs.edu.ng
- All applications undergo a thorough screening process prior to confirmation of admission
- The Programme Manager will get in touch with you as soon as an admission is granted.
Faculty
Dr Belinda Nwosu
Academic Director
Belinda is a Fellow and Trustee of the Institute of Hospitality (UK), a recipient of the 2022 Paul R. Lawrence Fellowship in case research and a Certified Hotel Industry Analyst with STR Global. Before joining LBS, Belinda worked as a Senior Consultant at W Hospitality Group. She also worked in Vocational Education and Training at Wavecrest College of Hospitality for several years. In both these roles, Belinda engaged in several initiatives to develop human capital for the services sector, especially in the design, development, and delivery of targeted training interventions, consulting projects and speaking engagements.
She holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Southampton, UK, with other degrees in hospitality and statistics.
Henry teaches Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour and Management Communication on the regular and executive MBA classes, Owner Manager Programmes, custom programmes and other executive programmes at Lagos Business School.
He has held various senior administrative positions at the School as Director of Executive Education, MBA Director and Director of Alumni Relations, prior to joining the full-time faculty team.
Dr Okoye is a full-time faculty in the department of Accounting at Lagos Business School, an experienced research consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry.
He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics & Statistics from the University of Benin. He also has a Master degree in Financial Accounting and Doctorate degree in Accounting with specialisation in Forensic Accounting.
His core area of research interest includes forensic accounting (financial statement fraud) and financial reporting. He facilitates sessions in corporate financial accounting, cost and management accounting as well as quantitative method in Business in the full-time MBA, Executive MBA, Modular Executive MBA, as well as custom programmes.
Testimonials
Upcoming Sessions and Contact
For more information, please contact Toba: 07080070553; tolugosi@lbs.edu.ng or send an email to execedsales@lbs.edu.ng
