• How it differs from MBA
• Who suits
• Where to go to study

Today, business schools offer a MINI-prefixed program alongside classic MBA programs. Let's figure out what kind of program it is, what are its features in comparison with the MBA and whether there will be a result from such training.

How it differs from MBA

MINI-MBA is a professional retraining program that is specially designed for fast learning future leaders and includes the most important knowledge and practices from the MBA program.

There are three main features that distinguish the MINI-MBA from the MBA program:

• Short training period. To complete the MINI-MBA program, you will need 6 months, while a full MBA program will take at least 1.5 years.
• Low cost. The MINI-MBA program is on average 3-4 times cheaper than the MBA.
• You will receive a diploma, but not a degree. After completing the MINI-MBA, you will receive a diploma or even 2 diplomas, like in CityBusinessSchool, but you will be awarded the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree only after completing the traditional MBA program.

In fact, MINI-MBA is a squeeze from the classic MBA program, the first stage, which gives you the opportunity to try your hand and then decide whether to continue your business education. At the same time, MINI-MBA is formed in such a way as to give students more practical tools.

Who suits

The MINI-MBA program is primarily designed for specialists who are just planning to become leaders, as well as young entrepreneurs who do not yet have time to immerse themselves in business processes.

MINI-MBA is suitable for anyone who has not yet decided whether or not to get a business education. Six months is a sufficient period to:

• gain knowledge and skills to become an effective leader;
• decide whether to continue studying in order to obtain an MBA.

What results do graduates achieve?

Despite the fact that MINI-MBA is the first step on the path to MBA, you should not perceive such training as something incomplete. The MINI-MBA is a complete program that delivers tangible results to graduates.

Knowledge and skills. To cope with a managerial position or successfully develop a business, you need to be able to organize the work of subordinates, motivate them to achieve results, effectively allocate time, achieve goals with minimal costs, and much more. You can learn this in the MINI-MBA program, which develops leadership, personal effectiveness and communication skills.

Career growth and increased income... Unfortunately, no separate studies on MINI-MBA have been carried out, however, according to CityBusinessSchool specialists, they regularly monitor the progress of graduates. According to business school statistics, 40% of them manage to increase their income within three months after graduation. At the same time, 89% say that business education significantly helps them in their careers.

There are those who need the MINI-MBA program to get the courage to start their own business.

Mikhail Krakhalev, City Business School graduate and CEO of Selland LLC:

“Today my dream has come true. After completing only half of the training, eagerly absorbing the material I had learned, I opened my own business. The school taught me to use my time more competently and effectively, and for any entrepreneur and people like me, this a priori means an increase in net profit. "

Where to go to study

To begin with, it is worth deciding on the format of training: do you want to study in person, in modules or remotely. The latter format is now the most popular, as it has 2 important advantages: flexible hours and low tuition fees. At the same time, graduates of distance learning programs receive exactly the same diploma as full-time students.

If you decide to go for the distance MINI-MBA program, pay attention to the business school CityBusinessSchool who is the leader distance education in Russia and the CIS. Studying at CBS gives students several advantages at once:

• Flexible training schedule. Training takes place remotely through the LMS (system distance learning), which means that you yourself determine the schedule and can study when and where it is convenient. Agree, it is much more pleasant to solve a case over a cup of your favorite coffee than in a stuffy classroom.
• Quality education. Modern educational technologies, which CityBusinessSchool uses to develop its own LMS, make it possible to make online education no less effective than face-to-face training. Game mechanics help you get involved in the learning process faster, and tests and simulators help you assimilate a large amount of information in less time.
• Access to experts from all over the world. Distance learning gives the business school more opportunities to find experts. CityBusinessSchool teachers are entrepreneurs, top managers of international companies, authors of popular books and business consultants from all over the world.
• Help in finding a job. If you are unable to get a promotion in your existing job, CBS Career Center can help you find a new one so you can get the most out of your competencies.
• Low cost of training. Due to a different cost structure, online programs are 3-5 times cheaper than their face-to-face counterparts. At CBS, prices are even lower as there are more students. Over 5 years, the business school has graduated 80 thousand people.

So, we found out that MINI-MBA is a full-fledged business education program. During 6 months of training, you will gain knowledge and skills that will help you better cope with your responsibilities and very soon get a promotion, start your own business or increase your income in business. The best part is that thanks to the remote format, you will get all this without sacrificing work, favorite hobbies and communication with your family.

Good afternoon friends. All my life I have been constantly learning something new, attending various courses and trainings on my topic - sales, marketing, advertising. In July 2015, she became an individual entrepreneur and thought about getting a business education.

Many may disagree with me, but I find that short-term refresher courses are often more beneficial than higher education... Of course, I do not mean, for example, doctors. They need to know a lot, which is why they study for a long time. I'm talking about courses for accountants, managers, salespeople.

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How do you like the prospects? In my opinion, tempting. To this I must add that you can study completely remotely, without interrupting your main work, at any time convenient for you, from anywhere in the world where there is access to the Internet.

It remains to answer the most important question:

How much does MINI-MBA study cost?

Today you can study under the MINI-MBA Professional program at the City Business School. This is a unique opportunity that is worth taking advantage of, especially if you have long dreamed of getting a business education in the MINI-MBA program.

Details on the official website of the City Business School... Fill out the form and freeze your tuition discount. After the end of the promotion, the cost of training will rise again. Have time to apply for training!

Have you already taken a MINI-MBA refresher course? Please share your experience and impressions with the readers of the "School of Effective Sales" blog in the comments.

A special educational product called mini-MBA... The first such programs appeared before the onset of the crisis in the late 2000s, but it was during the recession that they flourished. Mini-MBAs were attracted by the fact that, as promised by business schools, « on such programs you can get an MBA degree for much less money and spending much less time. "

Features of mini-MBA programs

After analyzing the Russian mini-MBA market, it is safe to say that there is only a name from the MBA in these programs. No matter how high-quality the training is here, master academic plan real MBA programs in three months or six months (which is how long mini-MBA courses usually last) is impossible. Therefore, Russian mini-MBA programs are professional development or professional retraining programs designed for managers and usually having a certain industry or functional focus (specialization).

Business schools, in principle, do not hide this fact, directly indicating which diplomas and certificates the participants of these programs will receive upon graduation (shorter programs are about professional retraining, longer ones are about professional development).

Many schools offer individual classes, and some even offer distance learning programs, such as Moscow Business School, Synergy and the Moscow School of New Economy). True, the magic word MBA does its job, and the cost of such programs is still higher than the cost of traditional professional retraining or advanced training.

In Moscow, such programs are offered by a number of universities, including a mini-MBA from Moscow State University. RUDN University mini-MBA programs have been very popular for a long time, but now RUDN University does not offer mini-MBA programs.

Mini-MBAs at Moscow State University are offered in a double degree format in conjunction with American Business Studies.

Cost of mini-MBA programs

The cost of mini-MBA programs varies widely. Mini-MBA in Moscow costs from 40 thousand to 200 thousand rubles. The most inexpensive programs at the Moscow School of New Economy - mini-MBA Professional can be mastered here for 35 thousand rubles. At Moscow Business School, programs cost 50 thousand rubles. These are all distance programs. The cost of full-time mini-MBA is significantly higher. In Synergy, for three months of training (72 hours), you will have to pay from 105 thousand to 180 thousand rubles, in MIRBIS the cost of a 7-8-month program is 116 thousand rubles. In the same price category, the programs of the PRUE G.V. Plekhanov.

Learn more about which programs mini-MBAs are offered by Russian business schools how much they cost and how to adjust the training to your schedule, you can always

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There are several stages of business development

• The first stage is to get the first result, skills and abilities to generate revenue, profit. At this period of development, it is necessary to master the basic tools for attracting a client, organizing the promotion and sales of a product. At this stage, you are 200% involved in your business. It doesn't work without you. It absorbs all strength and energy, time. But you earn some kind of money and are fully committed to sustainability, consolidation of the result, and you think about how to ensure growth.

At the second stage, the business is able to more steadily generate revenue, there are already employees, you have somehow identified the functions and orders are in progress, but you understand that the control system is not ideal, there is no confidence in the correct distribution of functions, there are obviously losses, unwanted losses, but these tasks have to be done mostly "manually" with personal deep immersion. Business still eats up a lot of time and effort, to the detriment of family, health, and other personal goals.

The third stage is when you understand that business is a system, and you need to have the knowledge and skills to build a systemic management. Do you understand that world business practice, industry leaders have gone through the first and second stages for many decades and reached modern methods building management systems, allowing you to customize processes, functions, responsibility, authority, necessary procedures at a high professional, expert level. It is this approach that allows serious projects to expand into the regions, scale up their activities, build a system where the owner is less and less involved in operational management, while the business grows and does not lose efficiency, and positions in the market are only strengthened.

It is about the approaches of the Third Level that will be discussed at our intensive. You cannot now take an advanced MBA course or hire expensive consultants. You yourself want to understand the basic knowledge and approaches in order to understand how to build a system for your business, taking into account its specifics and your interests as an owner. You do not know how to trust different consultants and do not understand whether you really need them.

You understand that no one other than you can configure all the processes and systems in your company as you need, but you do not understand where to start, how to clear up the accumulated wave of problems.

These are the questions we will consider with you on the intensive. During these two days, you will receive basic knowledge and skills that will allow you to move more confidently and independently in the task of building a clear, well-coordinated business system that can solve your problems without destroying your time, emotions, and energy.

On the intensive course, we will immediately begin to work with the key tasks of building your system, we will begin to analyze your situations, write specific documents and procedures, form the necessary decisions, and analyze the most common mistakes along the way.