Growth

Influencing people is key to reaching shared understandings and goals in business. In Influencing Others, you will learn how to use influencing and persuasion tools to enable you to change people’s viewpoints and behaviours, helping you to maximise your impact in a variety of organizational contexts. Crucially, you will learn how to apply your skills to situations where you either do not have or cannot rely on formal positions of authority.

A strong brand forms the basis of a meaningful relationship between your company, your product, your employees, and your customer. But it’s no easy feat. Develop your brand management knowledge and skills—with consideration of the social forces at play—and empower yourself with the ability to develop an effective brand strategy and management.

The explosion of online and offline sales channels has made the sales management function much more complex and challenging. Learn business development strategies for client acquisition and retention, leverage marketing tactics for sales growth, and understand the opportunities to utilize the sales process to advance the overall brand strategy.

From startups to Fortune 500 corporations, new product development is critical to the sustainability and growth of every company. Understand how companies adapt their existing products—and successfully build new ones—to respond to the ever-changing preferences of customers and expand into new markets.

Put all your newly acquired knowledge and skills directly into practice at the end of each block through a practical and relevant business challenge. Teams will draw on the content and themes of previous courses in each block to complete challenges involving simulations, executive pitch presentations, innovation hackathons, real company challenges, designing new business models, etc.