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Position yourself to build productive teams, develop solid strategies and nurture a winning workplace culture with Averett’s Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Leadership (MBA-LDR). Online or on campus, you’ll learn effective leadership skills for the 21st century.

Leadership skills needed for today’s global, cross-cultural business environment are different than just a few years ago. You must grasp theoretical concepts and be able to apply them in real time – even as conditions shift around you. The MBA-LDR helps prepare you for the next step in your leadership career.

The online leadership MBA program covers the same advanced-level marketing, quantitative analysis, accounting and finance topics as the main-track MBA. Specialized leadership courses, taken online, include:... [-]

Learn practically and theoretically how to lead organizational change through the Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Leadership from Liberty University Online. Study management and leadership theory, including how to develop servant leadership and master executive leadership. Working in a team environment, you will learn what it takes to become a successful business executive. All courses emphasize ethical management practices. Potential Career Fields: Company Manager, Management Consultant, Management Analyst

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There are many managers in the business world—people with the skills and competencies necessary to direct teams and control established processes. There are fewer leaders. Leaders within organizations provide long-term vision, devise creative solutions to problems, and break new ground for their teams, companies, or industries. If you want to open a new phase of possibility in your professional career, choose the Leadership in Organizations concentration for your Online MBA program. This interdisciplinary concentration option draws on skills and knowledge from the fields of management, organizational development, business intelligence and analysis to enhance your performance as a leader for a wide range of industries and applications.... [-]

MBA in Social Enterprise Leadership

Upcoming Start Dates: November 25, January 6

Why this program is needed

A Social Enterprise (SE) is generally understood to be a business operated or owned by a non-profit organization, established at least partly to supplement its public funding and charitable donations. The growth of the Social Enterprise sector is strong, and the need for capable and seasoned leaders even stronger. But leading such businesses is arguably more complex than leading a for-profit business - rather than having a single focus on profitability, Social Enterprise executives must achieve a “blended value” return on investment, balancing sustainable profitability with a social mission. Thus, in response to the growing demand for SE leaders, and the complexity of SE leadership, this program has been developed with the advice of some of Canada’s leading practitioners to meet the sector’s specific needs.... [-]

MBA in Innovation Leadership

Upcoming Start Dates: November 25, January 6

Why This Program Is Needed

In today's global business environment, every part of an organization must run in perfect alignment and at peak efficiency in order to meet the demands imposed by relentless global competitors. However, the same organization must also be able to regenerate itself to seek bold new directions that offer new opportunities for motivation and growth, be they new product categories, new markets, new partnerships, new processes, or new organizational structures. Think of Apple's foray into portable MP3 music players with their famous iPod, which represented a substantial departure from their main lines of computer hardware and software; yet which, successfully done, garnered over 90% share of the MP3 market within three years of its launch, at premium prices.... [-]

MBA in Global Leadership

Upcoming Start Dates: November 25, January 6

Why this program is needed

It is imperative that the leadership teams of virtually every company collectively recognize that they are managing their organization in a complex global network of suppliers, competitors, partners, and customers - with all of the threats and opportunities entailed. In our view, this global context is not to be feared. Rather, it must be embraced, and our leadership and management teams must be educated and prepared accordingly.

For whom this program is designed

Our online MBA with a focus on Global Leadership is designed for early-career professionals and managers of medium to large sized companies who aspire to lead their companies towards much higher performance in their global networks. It begins with coverage of fundamental management essentials such as financial, analytical and decision-making skills, and knowledge of an organization's core functions and interactions. The program goes much further than that. Its core focus is on leadership techniques, especially collaborative leadership in the complex cross-boundary global context, both within the company and between companies.... [-]

Gain the edge necessary to accelerate your career growth with a Master of Business Administration degree (MBA). Enhance your professional confidence, project management, and critical thinking and leadership abilities. You can enhance your education and elevate your professional position after a program consisting of only 33 credits. You'll find this program is one of the most accelerated available online.

You'll also discover that an MBA from Ashford University is one of the lowest cost programs available at $480/credit. You may also be eligible to use a tuition reimbursement plan through your employer.

Personalize your MBA degree when you pair it with a concentration. Use previous education or work experience to enhance your MBA and customize it more closely with your professional and educational goals.... [-]

Strategic leadership goes beyond managing others, encompassing all of the skills and capacities needed to influence others, manage change, set strategic direction, build teams and support networks and navigate the complex analytical and human dimensions inherent in any leadership role.

The Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Management and Leadership (MBAHCML) program is designed to prepare students for careers in the fields of managed care supervision, patient care management, healthcare services manager, regulatory analysis, and resource specialist. Students pursuing this specialization will learn about healthcare management, healthcare economics, healthcare information systems, and the ethics of healthcare. Individuals currently working in the healthcare industry and considering a career advancement in management will find this specialization rewarding.

Upon Successful completion of this program, students will be able to:... [-]

The York Business School MBA in Leadership and Management is designed for a diverse range of students who share a passion for leadership and management more generally and who wish to move into or further develop their careers in leadership and management. Through the development of an integrated and critically aware understanding of management from a leadership and people perspective, the programme involves you in a demanding process of personal and leadership development. The programme offers opportunities to explore, evaluate and apply key theories of leadership and management theories and concepts as well as encouraging creative and innovative thinking in the application of relevant models and frameworks.... [-]

The York Business School MBA Innovation, Leadership, and Consulting is a dynamic programme that focuses on developing practical skills that will enable you to lead change in your organization, develop skills as an entrepreneur and deliver innovation. The programme is designed to develop tools and leadership skills needed to successfully manage innovation projects and programmes and acquire skills in a wide range of creativity and innovation processes and techniques. This programme will be of interest to you if you are a career professional who wishes to develop your skills in leading innovation and change, or you are currently supporting innovation and change in the workplace or in the community.... [-]

The York Business School MBA in Coaching, Mentoring, and Leadership is designed to enable you to develop critically reflective coaching, mentoring and leadership skills that can be applied in a variety of settings. You will engage in and evaluate practical coaching and mentoring activities, explore and evaluate the potential impact of coaching and mentoring on individual and organizational performance and engage with the complex moral dimensions in coaching, mentoring and leadership.

Both coaching and mentoring activity are strongly associated with management and leadership. There are tensions between the concepts of leadership and management, which are again explored throughout the programme. In some instances, both coaching and mentoring may be employed to contribute to the development of leaders and managers. In others, coaching and mentoring may be employed as part of the leadership or management function.... [-]

The York Business School MBA in Leading Innovation and Change will be of interest to you if you are a career professional who wishes to develop your skills in leading innovation and change, or you are currently supporting innovation and change in the workplace or in the community.

The overall aim of the programme is to enable you to develop your critical understanding of the issues relating to leading innovation and change, so that you may enhance your leadership skills to develop sustainable individual and organizational potential. The programme brings together relevant contemporary academic theory and research with a practical understanding of activities within organizations. You will explore issues that have a significant impact on organizations by working with others and building on both their experiences and your own.... [-]

In a changing world, leadership is the ability to influence a group towards goals and values which are sustainable and contain a vision for the future. Designed for tomorrow’s leader, the MBA in Leadership and Sustainability creates distinctive managers with a unique leadership-oriented career opportunity. This programme in Leadership and Sustainability creates individuals who have the ability to be far-sighted and actively engage with their environment to responsibly transform ideas into reality.

Our online MBA can act as a catalyst to your business knowledge and infuse new perspectives into your professional goals.

Learn at Switzerland’s premier private college and graduate, with students from over 130 different countries, from the University of Cumbria.... [-]