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MCE Mini MBA

Moving from Technical Expert to International Business Manager

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MCE Mini MBA

Get equipped with the practical, operational and managerial skills you need to become a great manager & boost your career.

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The Key Issues

You’re great at solving technical problems. But now, you’re expected to do more. You manage people, sit in budget meetings, align with marketing and operations, and make decisions that impact the business. And no one taught you how to do that.

The MCE Mini MBA is built for professionals like you—engineers, scientists, and technical specialists transitioning into managerial roles. This 5-module programme gives you a complete, practical understanding of how businesses run. You’ll learn to manage people, speak the language of finance, understand commercial priorities, and contribute to strategy. You’ll walk away with tools, confidence, and clarity to make better decisions, lead teams, and align across functions.

  • Business Fluency: Understand key functions—finance, operations, sales and marketing
  • People Management: Lead teams with a focus on results, but also with empathy, clarity, and confidence
  • Decision-Making: Make smarter decisions and conclusions using business data and context
  • Change & Alignment: Contribute to strategy and align cross-functionally

Key Competences​

The Key Issues

You’re great at solving technical problems. But now, you’re expected to do more. You manage people, sit in budget meetings, align with marketing and operations, and make decisions that impact the business. And no one taught you how to do that.

The MCE Mini MBA is built for professionals like you—engineers, scientists, and technical specialists transitioning into managerial roles. This 5-module programme gives you a complete, practical understanding of how businesses run. You’ll learn to manage people, speak the language of finance, understand commercial priorities, and contribute to strategy. You’ll walk away with tools, confidence, and clarity to make better decisions, lead teams, and align across functions.

Business
Fluency

People Management

Key Competences​

Decision-Making

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Change & Alignment

The Right Programme for You

  • Engineers, scientists, and technical experts leading teams
  • First-time or mid-level managers in international roles
  • Technical professionals needing business fluency to align with other departments
  • Functional managers who want to improve business proficiency
  • Business Professionals
Specialists, engineers, chemists, technical staff, logistics, commercial positions, project managers etc
  • New Managers
Managers of teams including team leaders with up to 3 years' experience in this role
  • Managers
Managers of teams and departments with more than 3 years' experience in this role
  • Senior Managers
Managers of managers, countries, divisions, regions companies with more than 10 years of senior management experience

Highlights

360° understanding of how business functions work together

Practical tools for managing people, projects, and priorities

Financial and commercial fluency for technical managers

Peer learning and support from other international managers

Hands-on activities for real-world application and practice

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Learn how businesses operate across functions and value chains
  • Develop your people management skills and build your leadership profile
  • Use financial tools, business cases, and strategic thinking to influence decisions
  • Focus on change management and how to navigate uncertainty
  • Understand the value chain and your team’s role in the organization
  • Learn how to execute strategy and focus on the results

Programme Details

The MCE 5-Day Mini MBA focuses on the following key areas:

  • People Management and Leadership
  • Business Strategy & Innovation
  • Performance, Budgeting and Accounting
  • Commercial & Operational Excellence
  • Navigating Change
 

A Business Simulation will be used throughout the programme and will cover activities of five financial reporting years.

You will work in teams of 3 to 4 people and your objective will be to maximise profitability and ROCE over the strategic 5 year period.

Five Programme Modules

1 | Managing People and Leadership

  • Transition from expert to manager: what it means for you in your role
  • Discover your leadership style in today’s business world
  • Build trust across cultures and remote teams
  • Learn about leading organizational capabilities
  • Explore different leadership styles and emotional intelligence (Goleman model)
  • Build your awareness of DEI, hybrid, and cross-cultural team dynamics

2 | Business Strategy & Innovation

  • Analyze your market using inside-out and outside-in strategic tools
  • Apply strategy models like BCG and McKinsey Matrix in your role
  • Learn to evaluate trends and turn them into business opportunities and strategies
  • Build value propositions through innovation and customer-centric thinking

3 | Performance, Budgeting and Accounting

  • Understand core financial principles: P&L, balance sheets, KPIs
  • Learn budgeting, cost control, and performance analysis
  • Use financial insights and data analytics to make decisions
  • Build confidence in business conversations involving numbers and ratios

4 | Commercial & Operational Excellence

  • Understand how marketing, sales, and operations drive business value
  • Learn about segmentation, targeting, and positioning fundamentals
  • Explore how supply chains and customer value intersect
  • Identify and optimize your team’s contribution to the value chain

5 | Navigating Change

  • Learn frameworks for strategy execution and change management
  • Understand different change management models and how to navigate transformation
  • Practice stakeholder communication and change leadership situations
  • Consolidate your overall learning with simulations and a personal action plan
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Faculty

Bettina
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Learn, Practice
and Use

  • Learn how businesses operate across functions and value chains
  • Develop your people management skills and build your leadership profile
  • Use financial tools, business cases, and strategic thinking to influence decisions
  • Focus on change management and how to navigate uncertainty
  • Understand the value chain and your team’s role in the organization
  • Learn how to execute strategy and focus on the results

Programme Details

The MCE 5-Day Mini MBA focuses on the following key areas:

  • People Management and Leadership
  • Business Strategy & Innovation
  • Performance, Budgeting and Accounting
  • Commercial & Operational Excellence
  • Navigating Change
 

A Business Simulation will be used throughout the programme and will cover activities of five financial reporting years.

You will work in teams of 3 to 4 people and your objective will be to maximise profitability and ROCE over the strategic 5 year period.

Five Programme Modules

1 | Managing People and Leadership

  • Transition from expert to manager: what it means for you in your role
  • Discover your leadership style in today’s business world
  • Build trust across cultures and remote teams
  • Learn about leading organizational capabilities
  • Explore different leadership styles and emotional intelligence (Goleman model)
  • Build your awareness of DEI, hybrid, and cross-cultural team dynamics

2 | Business Strategy & Innovation

  • Analyze your market using inside-out and outside-in strategic tools
  • Apply strategy models like BCG and McKinsey Matrix in your role
  • Learn to evaluate trends and turn them into business opportunities and strategies
  • Build value propositions through innovation and customer-centric thinking

3 | Performance, Budgeting and Accounting

  • Understand core financial principles: P&L, balance sheets, KPIs
  • Learn budgeting, cost control, and performance analysis
  • Use financial insights and data analytics to make decisions
  • Build confidence in business conversations involving numbers and ratios

4 | Commercial & Operational Excellence

  • Understand how marketing, sales, and operations drive business value
  • Learn about segmentation, targeting, and positioning fundamentals
  • Explore how supply chains and customer value intersect
  • Identify and optimize your team’s contribution to the value chain

5 | Navigating Change

  • Learn frameworks for strategy execution and change management
  • Understand different change management models and how to navigate transformation
  • Practice stakeholder communication and change leadership situations
  • Consolidate your overall learning with simulations and a personal action plan
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Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

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Live Online
  • 12 sessions
  • €3,995
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29 Sep – 08 Oct 2025
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29 Sep, 09:00 – 12:00CET
29 Sep, 14:00 – 17:00CET
30 Sep, 09:00 – 12:00CET
30 Sep, 14:00 – 17:00CET
01 Oct, 09:00 – 12:00CET
01 Oct, 14:00 – 17:00CET
06 Oct, 09:00 – 12:00CET
06 Oct, 14:00 – 17:00CET
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10 Dec, 09:00 – 12:00CET
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15 Dec, 09:00 – 12:00CET
15 Dec, 14:00 – 17:00CET
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10 Dec, 09:00 – 12:00CET
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"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

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