This Mini-MBA course, "Today’s Strategic Leader: Strategic Planning, Negotiation and Conflict Management," equips participants with essential competencies for thriving in complex, fast-evolving organizational settings. Participants will gain a deep understanding of how strategic planning, negotiation, and conflict management intersect to drive business success, enabling leaders to make informed, forward-thinking decisions and manage people and resources with agility and confidence.

This course is designed to unmask the triplet concepts of strategic leadership competencies of strategic planning, negotiation and conflict management needed to succeed in today’s demanding and vision-driven business world. The primary focus is on how strategy and negotiation define the vision of where you want to be and determine the path to get you there using a conflict management process designed to control and direct the organization’s operations so that the mission and objective are met.

Negotiation and conflict management are key competencies of strategic management and leadership that exert influence and smartly control tomorrow’s events.

Our goal is to provide participants with the learning tools and frameworks needed to address and discuss challenges faced by managers, executives, leaders, and boards of directors, and study ways to enhance critical thinking, decision-making, developing, deploying, monitoring and continuously improving corporate strategies and processes.

We will do this by bringing forth various issues that impact strategic planning, long-term value creation, managing conflict resolution, and responding to business sustainability concerns. Through utilization of presentations, group discussions and experiential exercises designed to engage participants and deepen their learning, we will explore different ways of designing strategy, planning negotiation, and managing conflict that will focus resources on the activities that create strong value and competitive advantages.