A free and easy training to be a better manager

This self-teaching course for managers, now freely open to all, is designed for the participants to the management courses of Patrick M. Georges, at the business schools of HEC Paris, the University of Brussels, the Vlerick School of Management, the Collège des Ingénieurs.
Three 8-hour tracks are available. Personal Management, Team Management and Business Unit Management.

How to benefit from this self-teaching course

1. Check the course program.
Select your weekly learning objective from the list of the 24 one-hour modules.
Open the module from the key words list below, according to their natural sequence, 1M to 24M, or to their topic.

2. Check how good you are as a manager. Answer the questions.
Study the referenced or downloaded documents. Search the web.

3. Improve your management skills. Check your answers.
Compare with the answers of this blog community or unmask the most frequent answers

4. Optional. Ask for the teacher support by e-mails, video conferences or class sessions

Get started with module 0 to check the 24 learning objectives

Click 0M on the key words list below to start

How to manage better using a Master Management Program Module 21. Track Business Unit Management

Learning objective
How to look smart as an exective, using your Master Management Program
Reading

www.enotes.com/management-encyclopedia/decision-rules-decision-analysis


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Questions

For each of the following business rule, give the major advantage and the major disadvantage expected from the program.


Increase our % of sales revenues from new products

Increase our % of revenues on the R&D budget

At least 5% of lowest performers should be out-placed per year

Abandoning 10 % of the least profitable customers

Reducing costs by 2% a year

Reducing travel costs by 30 % in two years

Aligning all sales points on the performance of the best sales point

Sales revenue from services at 50 % of product sales revenue

Financing new activities at 50 % with gains made from abandoning old activities

All managers rated AAA this year should be promoted within 1 year

Allow no one task outside a project or a process

Reduce the streamline index of your critical processes

To control the promotion freedom of your sales people, link it’s use to their bonus

Move back people to front by back-office automation

Each year, select and move out of your business, the 5% of your current tasks that add the lowest value to it

Never contract fix resources without a full control of their severance costs at any time

Protect your profit from the first purchasing step

Abandon budgets for scoreboards and internal business plans.

Allocate automatically and rapidly more resources to the best performers and less resources to the less performing collaborators

Keep pipeline value at 200 % of the sales objectives



How to organize your notes at B-school
  • 100 management methods
  • 3 majors parts
  • 6 business chapters per part
  • 6 managers functions
  • 6 instructions per function
  • 500 management instructions

What's the management process ?
  1. A question to ask yourself facing a business situation
  2. An indicator to measure
  3. A rule to apply
  4. An action to take


How to take notes in your MMP? An exemple.
  1. Instruction: work on a clear desk
  2. Category: rule or question or indicator or step
  3. Sub-sector: working surface
  4. Sector: office organization
  5. Function: concentration
  6. Condition: if concentration needed
  7. Limitation: creative works
  8. Your answer: engaged
  9. Your objective: clear my desk every evening