PARTICIPANT PROFILE

The MINI MBA is aimed at participants with the knowledge and experience to contribute to class discussions, heads of business units or departments, project managers to be promoted to broader responsibilities within their organization and senior and top managers wishing to reinforce/update their knowledge.

Currently, MINI MBA is only open for corporate order with a group of minimum 10 participants.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE

This program is designed for experienced managers and covers the full range of business functions (marketing, finance, HR, operations, supply chain management…). It helps participants develop a comprehensive, long-term strategic vision and reinforces their leadership and negotiation skills.

TEACHING APPROACH

This English language program, throughout its seven highly interactive modules, balances:

• lectures & debates
• experience learning situations
• role plays & simulation exercises
• case studies
• team work & experience sharing

INSTRUCTORS’ PROFILE

CFVG and the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, through their academic partners (ESCP EUROPE, HEC, Paris Dauphine University, Paris Sorbonne), offers the Mini-MBA participants their best professors and trainers, a mix of international and Vietnamese experts of international dimension, aware of the corporations current issues through their consulting missions and their research.

KEY FACTS: 

Venue: Hanoi / HCMC 
Length: 14 days (98 hours) 
Organization: 2 days / month (7h/day) 
Language: English 
Program certificate delivered by CFVG

7 MODULES

1. ADVANCED MARKETING MANAGEMENT
   By the end of this module, the participants will be able to:
• identify marketing challenges that business executives face in today’s environment;
• to create, communicate, and deliver superior value to their customers to capture a fair share of this value back for their organization;
• design and implement advanced marketing management strategies and tactics;
• master processes and tools to implement these strategies and tactics on a day-to-day basis.
  
  
2. CORPORATE FINANCE
   By the end of this module, the participants will be able to:
• Understand Financial Statements
• Master tools for Financial Decision-Making
• Master the main concepts of capital budgeting and financial valuation
• Have a better understanding of financial markets and financial investments
• Design and implement a financial strategy
  
  
3. NEGOTIATION SKILLS FOR MANAGERS
   By the end of this module, the participants will be able to:
• identify the different steps to successful negotiation;
• build a relevant negotiation strategy;
• use influence techniques in order to keep control during the negotiation process;
• deal with conflicts by using positive and assertive communication tools.
  
  
4. LEAN OPERATIONS & SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
   By the end of this module, the participants will be able to:
• understand the main levers for optimizing operations;
• lead and manage the supply chain processes in a company or a department; 
• analyze and lead the internal and external flows;
• assess performance and define improvement goals for operations and supply chain.
  
  
5. MOTIVATE YOUR TEAM AND DEVELOP YOUR LEADERSHIP
   By the end of this module, the participants will be able to:
• understand and assess individual motivations level;
• address team motivation proactively and effectively handle organizational involvement within their unit;
• teach their team to take responsibility and to be more committed;
• build and strengthen a trusting spirit within a team;
• evaluate their main strengths, weaknesses and areas of improvement in terms of leadership potential and managerial development;
  
  
6. CORPORATE STRATEGY
   By the end of this module, the participants will be able to:
• have a better understanding of the different levels and roles of strategy in a company
• identify the basic business strategies and sources of competitive advantage
• answer fundamental business questions such as “what is our business,” “who is our customer” and “what value do we bring to our customers.”
• design and implement a strategic development plan
  
  

7. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
   By the end of this module, the participants will be able to:

• Understand HR and its role in the modern organization.
• Know the managers role in HR matters.
• Able to use common HR management tools such as:
• Job Descriptions,
• Job Evaluation
• Interviews and selection techniques;
• Performance Reviews,
• Setting Pay,
• Disciplinary action process

CUSTOM PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO ADDRESS YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS

While our portfolio of short and graduate programs are designed for executives from a wide range of industries, our custom programs are tailored exclusively to the unique needs of individual organizations. Be it the implementation of new strategies, the development of new competencies, a call for better internal collaboration or stronger leadership, custom programs are a powerful change instrument.

CFVG grants you access to its wide network of international professor-experts who will work closely with you to:

1. Identify your organization’s specific needs and most important goals.
2. Revisit your strategic vision in light of cuttingedge research.
3. Tackle the issues identified as your most important challenges and objectives.
4. Translate what your executives have learned at CFVG into action.

Some examples of custom programs carried on by CFVG:

FCR Vietnam-VNPT 
“Advanced and specialized marketing” 
Objective: Training VNPT’s managers in marketing applied to the telecommunications sector. 
30 modules 
20 participants

Big C 
Mini MBA 
Objective: Acquiring the fundamentals of management 
11 modules 
20 participants

Vietnam’s Ministry of Commerce 
“Training Trade Advisors” 
Objective: Capacity building of trade advisors to support exporting 
Vietnamese companies 
10 modules 
15 participants x 3 classes

BECOME A CFVG PARTNER TO RECRUIT, DEVELOP AND KEEP YOUR HIGH POTENTIAL MANAGERS

Meet our participants and alumni
Contact our participants/alumni directly through our database, post a job description on our website and in our premises, promote your company and sector of activity through a presentation followed by a networking cocktail, participate in panel discussions, seminars, workshops and help develop skills that could eventually benefit your organization, or meet them through more informal events. These are some examples of what we can do for you to connect with Vietnam’s future corporate elite.

Recruit trainees
In the framework of its MBA, CFVG welcomes every year, for 1 or 2 semesters, students from French “Grandes Ecoles” and Universities who, like their Vietnamese counterparts, study part-time.

Identify talents
Be a member of our selection committee and participate in selection interviews for our programmes to better understand our participants’ aspirations and identify talents.

Access to training programmes with preferential conditions
Benefit from preferential financial conditions and additional services when subscribing to CFVG’s short and custom programmes, and seminars. 

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