About the Special Executive Masters Programme
The MSBM Special Executive Masters Programme is short certificate modules designed for anyone who would benefit from more in-depth business knowledge delivered in a short and intensive programme. This programme is suitable for successful professionals or specialist in the private, public or non-profit making sectors that have new management responsibilities and need to quickly expand their management knowledge.

The (SEMP) programme serves as a refresher course for those who have had their Masters a long time ago and need a quick reminder or as an academic update while it serves as a crash programme for those very experienced professionals who never made time out for their masters yet they require the academic and practical relevance of this masters’ experience. It is a good programme for individuals who are newly promoted to the managerial post, the program enables them to acclimatise to the new position as well as help them intake the right decisions.

 

Objectives 

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the link between good leadership and creativity and innovation
• Apply self-awareness techniques in preparing for unleashing the natural creative inclination
• Teach, guide and support others in developing the needed self-awareness for creativity
• Build the right environment that nurtures and fosters creativity and innovation in others
• Use different tools and techniques to generate creative and innovative ideas

Who should attend?

This course is intended for: 

• Supervisors
• Managers
• Team and Project leaders
• Individuals who need to adopt a more creative approach at work, whether to solve problems, come up with new initiatives, initiate and introduce changes.
• The workshop will also benefit anyone interested in recognizing and developing their own or a group's creative potential.

 

Modules 

Day 1: Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership 

What is Leadership?

Types of leadership in the business world

Authentic leadership

Misperceptions of leadership

Defining innovation and creativity

Intelligence vs. Creativity

Understanding the 2 hemispheres of the brain - Right and left

Lateral thinking

 

Day 2: Stimulate your creative brain 

Understanding your ego and emotional responses

Emotional reactions based on protection

Childhood experiences

Societal and cultural programming

Understanding emotions

The impact of habit on acting and thinking

Harnessing the power of habit

Vertical development

Horizontal development

Stages of vertical development

Self-leadership / identity leadership

Leaders produce leaders

 

Day 3: Fostering creativity in team members 

The right team member selection

Happiness as a driver of creativity

Positivity and gratitude

Thoughts and the need to control thoughts

The difference between the real I and my thoughts

Cultural restrictions

Others influences

The principal of coaching in driving creativity and innovation

Resistance to change

Understanding change

Taming the internal resistance to change

Innovation leadership characteristics

 

Day 4: The right environment for creativity and innovation 

Setting the right environment

Fear as an inhibitor of creativity

Capitalizing on mistakes and failures

The importance of understanding employees

Enhancing employees’ creativity and innovation

Employee maturity

Customizing your approach

 

Day 5: Creativity and innovation tools

Facilitating brainstorming

Process review matrix

Lateral thinking

Random stimulation techniques

The four thinking styles

Assessing and refining innovative Ideas

Cost-benefit and risk analysis

Anticipating objections

Influencing decision-makers by making a business case

The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

There is no strict Academic Requirement for this Programme as it is a Non-Credit Bearing Programme. However, Students are expected to have working experience as a Team Lead, Supervisor or Manager.

UAE VISA

Please check with your Country’s Ministry of Foreign Affair to know if you require a UAE VISA to come into the country. 

If you do require a UAE Visa, kindly send down the following documents:

- Editable application form including DOB, Email ID, contact no, home address & signature.
- Scanned copy of your International Passport Data Page.
- E-copy of your Passport Photograph.

Your Visa and Hotel Confirmation Slip, (if handled by us) along with your Joining Instructions would be sent to you before the program commences.

UK VISA

Please check with your Country’s Ministry of Foreign Affair to know if you require a UK VISA to come into the country. 

If you do require a UK Visa, kindly note that you are required to handle this on your own without any recourse to us.

We advise that Delegates already hold a UK Visa with at least 3 months' validity before registering for the Programme.

Your Hotel Confirmation Slip, (if handled by us) along with your Joining Instructions would be sent to you before the program commences.