General Management Plus Program

Accelerate your career with the WHU Mini MBA Certificate!

With the General Management Plus Program (WHU Mini MBA Certificate) you acquire comprehensive expertise for your future as a successful executive in just a few months. In interactive courses, renowned WHU professors provide knowledge in the fields of strategy, finance, leadership, change management, and entrepreneurship. At the same time, you develop as a purpose-driven leader while co-creating a tangible social enterprise together with other program participants. For this purpose, you you will assess the needs, brainstorm ideas, create prototypes and pitch a business plan. After each module, you will receive a Take Home Exam, which you must submit digitally. You will receive 15 ECTS points upon successful completion of all exams.

The Capability Program (Social Entrepreneurship Project) transforms you with purpose so that you can transform your environment. The action learning program challenges you to step up and take real responsibility as a social entrepreneur in the field. As part of a diverse team, you co-create a tangible social enterprise to improve job and life chances of a deprived community (in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, or Mongolia). In this process, you will find unique opportunities to find and lead by purpose, think and act as an entrepreneur and collaborate as a diverse self-organized team.

The Capability Program runs part-time in sync with your professional career over a period of 6 months. The program is has modules in Zurich, Switzerland, and the project location. You can complete the three modules of the Management Essentials Program at the WHU Campus Düsseldorf simultaneously, before or after the Capability Program – choose the way that suits your personal schedule best!

Program set-up/Modules

• Strategy Essentials: Corporate strategy, formulation methods, and agile tools. Strategy execution and change management.
• Financial Literacy: Fundamental concepts of finance & accounting
• Leadership Essentials: Leadership styles, self-leadership, and inspirational leadership
• Capability Program: the entrepreneurial project runs over the full length of the program

The program requires 25 presence days and 2 to 3 hours of virtual teamwork per week.

• Receive a WHU Mini MBA Certificate (15 ECTS) in an intensive program that suits your professional schedule
• Enhance your general management knowledge in strategy, leadership, finance, change management, and entrepreneurship
• Assess the needs of an unknown market
• Think and act as a real entrepreneur by setting up a tangible business
• Lead an international team in a virtual setting
• Transform ideas into viable business ideas and plan for entering a new market
• Reflect on your own leadership style and role
• Develop into a purpose-driven leader
• Develop and leverage personal networks and engage in trust-based dialog
• Conduct market research in an intercultural context
• Bring education to a rural area in a country of the global South

The General Management Plus Program is the perfect choice for professionals and executives who are looking for a short-term program at MBA-level from one of the best business schools in the world. The program gives you the tools you need to become a true intrapreneur (i.e. applied entrepreneurship within an existing organization) in your own company!

Become an entrepreneurial thinker and a responsible leader who recognizes new business opportunities and quickly transforms ideas into viable business models. Represent the next generation of leaders with sound knowledge of general management topics and a good sense of responsible leadership, and experience the results of your work in the long term.

Certificate

Upon successful completion of the program and the corresponding exams (admission requirements apply for the award of ECTS credits), 15 ECTS credits will be granted and you will receive a WHU Mini MBA certificate. You can continue your MBA at WHU at a later stage of your career (the requirements and conditions of the MBA admission procedure apply).

More details on the Certificate Regulations can be found here.

Who will benefit most from the program?

• Managers who are in transition into a leadership position
• Managers and professionals with an educational background in a field other than business administration
• Managers and specialists who wish to hone their intercultural competences and leadership skills
• Managers and specialists who are interested in entrepreneurial thinking and acting as well as working in intercultural and challenging environments
• Managers and professionals seeking to broaden their international network
• Employees who aim at excelling as intrapreneurs within their companies
• Professionals with a keen interest to make an impact

This part-time program is specially designed to combine a professional schedule with a learning opportunity and is therefore very suitable for middle-management talents.

Participants should have a global orientation, be willing to engage in an entrepreneurial project, and have sound knowledge of the English language.

Participants are expected to have at least three years of professional experience. For ECTS credits to be granted, a proof of a Bachelor or equivalent first degree is necessary. Admission requirements are in accordance with the WHU Certification Regulations.

This program runs over a period of 9 months. The program requires 25 presence days and about 3 hours of virtual teamwork per week.

You can apply for the early bird fee of €19,950, 3 months before the program start. The project country will be announced by October 31, 2024.