1. Becoming A Better Manager
Overview
Master a process approach to management and move your organization forward. Effective Management is essential for all teams and organizations to accomplish their goals. But all too often, managers today just don’t have the tools or processes to get the job done efficiently.
Becoming a Better Manager is a course designed to elevate your managerial skills through a distinctive, hands-on approach to management. You will learn to identify, analyze, design, and influence critical organizational processes as a means of getting work done and achieving results. Working through real-world challenges faced by managers across a variety of industries, you’ll focus on four of the most essential processes for managers: decision-making, implementation, organizational learning, and change management.
Whether you’re new to management, a seasoned manager, or somewhere in-between, you’ll come away with tangible tools and techniques that you can readily apply in your organization to deliver on time, on budget, and at the highest quality.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
Differentiate between the myths and realities of management
Recognize the advantages of taking a “process perspective” towards managerial work
Influence the context and environment in which decisions get made
Implement strategies, plans, projects, and initiatives more effectively
Lead learning initiatives so that your organization can improve and innovate
Manage and lead change in organizations of varying sizes
Design, direct, and shape various organizational processes to your advantage
Tuition: N150,000
Course Duration: Full Time: 4 weeks average
2. Finance & Accounting
Overview
Discover what’s behind the numbers in financial statements. Financial statements can be intimidating, a seemingly inscrutable jumble of acronyms and jargon. Understanding the key concepts and principles of financial accounting, however, can illuminate financial statements and unlock critical insights into business performance and potential. This online course will demystify financial statements and teach you how managers, Wall Street analysts, and entrepreneurs use an understanding of accounting to drive strategic decision making.
Whether you’re preparing for an MBA, a career on the street of London, or just need to gain confidence in your ability to understand and communicate financial results, participating in Financial Accounting will allow you to:
Appreciate how the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement are constructed—and how they interact
Evaluate the financial health of a business using financial statements
Prepare and evaluate financial forecasts used to make strategic decisions
Value a venture, project, or investment opportunity and perform a sensitivity analysis
Tuition: N150,000
Course Duration: Full Time: 4 weeks average
3. Strategic Marketing
Overview
Riverford Business School welcome you to the exciting world of Strategic Marketing Management. This course is focused on Strategic Marketing Planning. Participants develop skills and competencies needed for planning, developing and implementing strategies to gain a competitive advantage in a crowded marketplace. Utilizing a practical approach to strategic market planning, participants will adopt a customercentric method to understanding target markets and create value. Emphasis will be placed on the integrated nature of the planning process aligned with your organisation’s vision and adapted to the ever-changing business environment in order to meet and exceed customers’ expectations. Our unique approach to Strategic Marketing Planning process will ultimately translate to increase in Top of Mind Awareness (TOMA), increase market share, revenue growth, and sustained business success.
Programme Outcomes:
The four-week course will focus on marketing planning and cover situation analysis. Competitive analysis, the planning process, implementation, and control in four modules. At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Analyse the market environment to facilitate segmentation
Use segmentation to target specific population in advertising
Conduct a competitive analysis of a business utilizing SWOT analysis
Design a market plan and layout strategies for execution
Collect feedback on your solution to determine the effectiveness of your decision
Tuition: N150,000
Course Duration: Full Time: 4 weeks average
4. Human Resource Management & Organizational Leadership
Overview
People Leadership and Organisational Brand Advantage For a long time HR struggled to get a seat in the boardroom of organisations. Today, the question is “What does HR bring into the room and what should HR bring”? Related to these are questions around how HR could more effectively demonstrate the huge value it makes and can make to deliver today’s result and perpetually in a rapidly changing world. The climate within the organisation is a major source of performance erosion and winning this strategic internal war is as crucial as winning the external competitive battles.
By understanding how to ensure internal translation and expression of their brand positioning so that there is an alignment between the culture within and their desired external perception of their brands, participants are prepared to better leverage the dynamic variables in the war, so that investments in Human Capital effectively complements the other crucial external competitive battles in the area of Brand Management, Marketing and Sales, supply chain and cost optimisation.
Who this Course Benefits
It would also benefit Senior Business Managers in General Management or going into it and wishing to know how to turn organisations Human Capital into a source of competitive advantage.
Tuition: N150,000
Course Duration: Full Time: 4 weeks average
Procurement and Contract Management
Overview
Typically, many businesses have always encouraged reactive procurement management which hurts corporate governance and profitability. Consequence of poor procurement management manifests in extensive delay, high cost and abandoned projects. Also, in most sectors of our economy, contract expenditures are in excess of 50% of company revenue and therefore cannot be ignored. Procurement therefore, is an arm of huge potential for cost savings.
Programme
Understanding Customer and Business Requirements
Positioning for Strategic Procurement
Supply Management Analysis and Application
Strategic Sourcing Methods
Application of Sourcing Tools
Ethical Issues in Procurement
Bidding and Evaluations
Contract Management and Supplier Relationship
Legal Aspects of the Contracts
Negotiation in Contracting Context
Managing Supplier Relationships
E-Sourcing and Programme Management
Key Learning Outcomes
Learn the skills and tools for efficient/effective procurement management
Apply the skills/tools to improve organization procurement
Learn to apply specific skills in different contexts.
Target Audience
Managers involved in procurement/contracting.
Supply chain and Admin Managers of banks and those in the public sector.
Tuition: N150,000
Course Duration: Full Time: 4 weeks average
6. Transport, Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Overview
Logistics and supply chain management have been described as the planning and coordination of the activities necessary to achieve the desired levels of service at the lowest possible cost. This course explores the key managerial tasks that should be coordinated and controlled to achieve an efficient and effective logistics and supply chain programme for the organization. The course focuses on helping participants gain new insights into how the application of the tools can transform their competitive position.
Programme
Understanding international logistics and supply chain concepts
Logistics customers service management
Developing logistics philosophy and planning
Procurement of goods and services within the supply chain
Legal issues in Logistics
Ethical issues in Logistics
Exploring the applications of the contracts of trade
Category Management within the context of domestic procurement.
Inventory Management
What are inventories?
How are they organized, managed.
Inventory roles in the supply chain
Warehouse concepts and application
Supply chain simulation and financial issues
Transportation/Haulage of goods
Financial considerations
IT application of people issue
IT applications to logistics/SC
People make Logistics happens
Performance Management
Key Learning Outcomes
Acquisition and internalization of the skills and tools necessary to efficiently and effectively manage organisation’s logistics and supply chain especially in challenging times.
Target Audience
Logistics and supply chain Managers
Shipping and transport Managers
Maritime & Freight Forwarders
Warehousing Managers
Tuition: N150,000
Course Duration: Full Time: 4 weeks average
7. Project Management
Overview
Project management was traditionally a specialist skill area used primarily in large complex projects, such as those in construction, engineering and information technology. This skill area is now becoming increasingly in demand across most industries and job functions. Any set of tasks that are delimited in time, with a defined set of requirements, can be managed as a project. Having a tried and tested toolkit that is scale-able to large and small projects alike, is becoming an essential requirement for most business professionals.
You will gain an understanding of the essential steps in the project life cycle and reflect on the techniques available to you and how they can be applied. You will have the opportunity to review, in the light of your new knowledge and experience, a project on which you have already worked. The topics covered include stakeholders, finance, risk, people, project administration and quality etc.
The Project Management module from Riverford Business School takes a broad approach to technological projects and will be relevant to project managers and those wishing to increase their knowledge about project management.
Upon completing the four weeks Professional Certificate, you would:
Have fulfilled the educational requirements of the Project Management Institute’s Project
Management Professional (PMP)® credential, and be prepared to pass the PMP® exam
Receive a Riverford issued Certificate and 12 academic credits that may be applied toward a degree.
Be prepared to confidently direct project initiation, planning, and execution, and to apply proven project management tools at every stake of a project.
Tuition: N150,000
Course Duration: Full Time: 4 weeks average