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AMA's 5-Day "MBA" Certificate Program

How you do business is changing fast. Competition is more fierce than ever. How well you can grasp and handle data, reduce risks, and manage people, processes, and new technology is being tested daily. Prepare yourself to innovate, strategize, and lead with success. In this one-of-a-kind program , you’ll explore these vital skills and behaviors, guided by leading business experts, and practice applying them in an intensive business simulation . Each new skill you explore will inform and support every other skill. Working alongside peers from a variety of industries, you’ll also develop the leadership skills you need to apply these behaviors on the job. This hands-on, 5-day immersive course, filled with case studies, exercises, and activities, offers you the unique opportunity to experience what every business must do— cut costs, increase revenue, and mitigate risks — with a holistic, game-changing approach that can have a lasting positive impact not only on your career, but your entire future.   Certificate Programs include additional post-course resources: On demand lessons to reinforce key skills Best practice skill refreshers Articles offering practical tips and tactics

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About This Course

This 5-day “MBA” certificate program delivers an intensive immersion into the core disciplines that drive business performance. Participants build a stronger enterprise mindset by integrating finance, strategy, marketing, operations and leadership concepts into practical decision making. Through real-world application, they learn to interpret financial data, evaluate risk, align initiatives to strategy, collaborate across functions and lead projects that create measurable business value. The result is greater confidence, sharper business acumen, and the ability to think and act like a general manager.

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Who Should Attend

All business professionals who need a well-rounded, practical, actionable set of skills and tools to enhance analytical, personal, professional and business acumen and make sound business decisions

  •   In-Person5 Day(s)
    3 CEU, 31 CPE, 29 PDU, 30 PMU
  •   Live Online5 Day(s)
    3 CEU, 31 CPE, 29 PDU, 30 PMU
 
 

How you do business is changing fast. Competition is more fierce than ever. How well you can grasp and handle data, reduce risks, and manage people, processes, and new technology is being tested daily. Prepare yourself to innovate, strategize, and lead with success.

In this one-of-a-kind program, you’ll explore these vital skills and behaviors, guided by leading business experts, and practice applying them in an intensive business simulation. Each new skill you explore will inform and support every other skill. Working alongside peers from a variety of industries, you’ll also develop the leadership skills you need to apply these behaviors on the job. This hands-on, 5-day immersive course, filled with case studies, exercises, and activities, offers you the unique opportunity to experience what every business must do—cut costs, increase revenue, and mitigate risks—with a holistic, game-changing approach that can have a lasting positive impact not only on your career, but your entire future.

 

Certificate Programs include additional post-course resources:

  • On demand lessons to reinforce key skills
  • Best practice skill refreshers
  • Articles offering practical tips and tactics
  • Know your numbers to make sounder business decisions fast
  • Communicate and collaborate more effectively with your team, management, and other stakeholders
  • Improve the way you manage people, processes, and risks to drive projects and create value for your organization
  • Enhance creativity and innovation in your team to develop new solutions to old problems and respond to changing customer expectations
  • Apply what you learn in a guided simulation with fellow course participants
  • Sharpen your leadership skills with actionable tips and tools 

Get a Return on Investment

  • Identify how the relationship between risk and return influences everyday business decisions
  • Recognize how effective risk management maximizes returns while mitigating, minimizing, and eliminating risks
  • Know the importance and sources of high-quality information
  • Identify ways a business creates and builds value

Speak Finance

  • Learn the General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
  • Examine cash versus accrual accounting
  • Recognize how the accounting process flows from journal entries, to the general ledger, trial balance, and financial statements, translating operational activities into the financials
  • Prepare an income statement, balance sheet, retained earnings statement, and cash flow statement

Problem Solve, Invest, and Grow

  • Identify and define the key liquidity, leverage, and profitability ratios
  • Improve profitability through cost analysis and profit planning
  • Apply different methods for evaluating capital expenditures, monitoring project performance and reaching strategic conclusions
  • Evaluate and monitor operating performance

Manage

  • Develop, coach, and motivate individual people
  • Apply tools to manage teams, processes, and information
  • Address generational differences and manage conflict
  • Move from an operational manager to a strategic leader

Communicate

  • Utilize effective speaking, listening, and writing strategies to enhance and expand your interpersonal and organizational communication skills
  • Present ideas (in writing and verbally) in a logical, well-organized format in the appropriate tone
  • Learn strategies for virtual and cross-cultural communication
  • Develop your own mission statement and strategy for success

Strategize

  • Use the ADEPTT model to analyze the current state of your business and define goals
  • Engage stakeholders for positive results
  • Plan and execute strategy
  • Troubleshoot and track results of strategy execution

Market

  • Use the Five Ps of Marketing: positioning, product, price, place, and promotion
  • Create customer value and cultivate relationships
  • Explore the impact of social media
  • Analyze marketing budgets, controls, and tracking

Create and Innovate

  • Learn various techniques for generating new ideas and uncovering opportunities
  • Anticipate customer needs and create new solutions to respond to them
  • Use the four basic rules for brainstorming
  • Apply tips and tools to develop creative and innovative thinking around products and services

Business Challenge Simulation

  • Collaborate with your team of R&D, Sales & Marketing, Finance, and Operations in an online simulation with real-world business challenges
  • Understand the market, create demand, and invest in the future
  • Create greater value for your company
  • Put your newly acquired knowledge and skills to use along with your leadership and teamwork skills

Lead

  • Explore the differences between leading and managing
  • Examine the key characteristics of leadership
  • Present, as a team, leadership and management aspects of making sound business decisions

Special Feature

SIMULATION PROJECT

On the last day of this workshop, apply your new knowledge, skills, and behaviors in this cloud-based capstone online simulation powered by Abilitie. Engage your leadership, teaming, and business acumen skills, and be ready to hit the ground running when you return to the office.

Note: Participants are required to bring their own device to the course (laptop or tablet). The course agenda may be updated regularly as required.   AMA’s 5-Day "MBA" Workshop does not award a degree.

Get a Return on Investment

  • Identify How the Relationship Between Risk and Return Influences Everyday Business Decisions
  • Recognize How Effective Risk Management Maximizes Returns While Mitigating, Minimizing, and Eliminating Risks
  • Identify Ways a Business Creates and Builds Value

Speak Finance

  • Identify Accounting Terms and Concepts
  • Recognize How the Accounting Process Flows from Journal Entries, to the General Ledger, Trial Balance, and Financial Statements, Translating Operational Activities into the Financials
  • Review and Analyze the Components of Financial Statements, Including the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Retained Earnings and Cash Flow Statement
  • Comprehend How the Financial Statements Interact with One Another
  • Build a Set of Financial Statements from Scratch

Problem-Solve, Invest, and Grow

  • Calculate Key Financial Ratios Using the Financial Statements
  • Identify and Define the Key Liquidity, Leverage, and Profitability Ratios
  • Explain How to Improve Profitability Through Cost Analysis and Profit Planning
  • Recognize and Apply Different Methods for Evaluating Capital Expenditures and Monitoring Project Performance
  • Evaluate and Monitor Operating Performance

Manage

  • Appreciate How the Role of the Manager Has Changed in the Global Business Environment
  • Assess Individual and Team Behavioral (Social) and Communication Styles
  • Develop, Coach, and Motivate Individual People
  • Apply Tools to Manage Teams, Processes, and Information
  • Address Generational Differences and Manage Conflict
  • Move from an Operational Manager to a Strategic Leader

Communicate

  • Utilize Effective Speaking, Listening, and Writing Strategies to Enhance and Expand Your Interpersonal and Organizational Communication Skills
  • Present Ideas (in Writing and Verbally) in a Logical, Well-Organized Format in the Appropriate Tone
  • Create Complete Messages (That Cover All the Critical Information)

Strategize

  • Formulate Strategy Using the ADEPTT Model
  • Develop Techniques to Define Strategy Goals
  • Engage Resources
  • Plan and Execute Productively
  • Troubleshoot Successfully
  • Track Results and Celebrate

Market

  • Define and Analyze Marketing Fundamentals: What Is Marketing, and Why Is It Important?
  • Use the Five Ps of Marketing: Positioning, Product, Pricing, Placement/Channels, and Promotion

Innovate

  • Define and Differentiate Between Creativity and Innovation
  • Apply Tips and Tools to Develop Creative and Innovative Thinking Around Products and Services

Business Challenge Situation

  • Collaborate with Your Team to Make Sound Business Decisions
  • Practice Your Leadership and Teaming Skills
  • Compete and Create Value for Your Company

Lead

  • Discuss the Key Characteristics of Leadership
  • Differentiate Between Leading and Managing

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View a Sample of Our Reviews

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459 reviews

 
Very well done and very informative. It's going to help me be more effective at my job.
5
David C.
 
IT Manager
 
Industry: Manufacturing, Chemicals & Related Products
The class was very engaging and informative. I am already implementing some of the tools that I have learned and have a better understanding of the company I work for and how they make some of their business decisions.
5
Devan O.
 
NATIONAL FIELD MANAGER
 
Industry: Manufacturing
the class delivered what I needed. I enjoyed the faculty-led's delivery of the material
5
Piotr S.
 
REGIONAL SALES MANAGER
 
Industry: Manufacturing, Industrial Machinery & Equipment
The material was very well presented and the examples and storytelling brought the material to life and will allow me to remember and apply the information in the future.
5
Brian H.
 
Mgr Line 4 & Formulation
 
Industry: Manufacturing
This course was great to gain insight into the executive decisions that have to be made at the top levels of a company. The business simulation brings everything together and provides an opportunity to apply the course content. The instructor did a great job of creating an environment that encouraged conversations and engaged everyone in the class.
5
BRIAN W.
 
QA MANAGER
 
Industry: Holding Company & Conglomerate

This course is valid for 30 PMUs.

Talent Triangle PDUs
7 Power Skills [PS] 22 Business Acumen [BA]
Project Management Institute (PMI) Talent Triangle, 2015.
Reproduced with the permission of PMI. Copyright and all rights reserved

American Management Association is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is accredited to issue the IACET CEU.

American Management Association is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org. For additional information or for more information regarding administrative policies such as complaints and refunds, please contact Customer Service at 800-262-9699.

Recommended CPE Credit: 31 hours/Intermediate
Prerequisites: Three or more years of managment experience with knowledge of working accounting
Advance Preparation: None
Delivery Method: Group Live/Group Internet Based
Field of Study:Technical – Finance, Management Services
Non-Technical – Marketing, Business Management & Organization

In-Person Schedule

10 Sessions Available

Live Online Schedule

9 Sessions Available

  • $4,395.00 Non Members
  • $3,995.00 AMA Members
  • $3,897.00 GSA
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the 5-Day “MBA” Certificate Program?

AMA’s 5-Day “MBA” Certificate Program is an intensive certificate program designed to give business professionals a practical foundation in core MBA concepts without the time or cost of a traditional degree program. It’s often described as a mini-MBA certificate or an MBA crash course for working professionals.

Who should consider an MBA certificate program like this?

This MBA certificate program is ideal for managers, leaders and professionals who want a broad understanding of business fundamentals—such as finance, strategy, operations, marketing and leadership, but don’t need or have the time for a full MBA degree. It’s especially useful for those looking for MBA training in a condensed, applied format.

Is this an MBA degree or an MBA certificate?

This is an MBA certificate program, not an academic MBA degree. Participants earn an MBA certificate from AMA, demonstrating completion of a comprehensive business fundamentals program. It’s designed for professional development rather than academic credit.

What topics are covered in this MBA certificate program?

This program covers key areas commonly taught in MBA programs, including financial analysis, strategy, leadership, operations, marketing and decision making. The emphasis is on practical application and real-world business scenarios.

How is this different from online MBA certificate programs?

Many MBA certificate programs online are self-paced and content heavy. The AMA 5-Day “MBA” is a live, instructor-led, immersive seminar that allows participants to engage with faculty, ask questions, learn from peers and practice and apply concepts in real time—making it a strong option for those who prefer structured learning.

Can this be taken as an online MBA certificate course?

The 5-Day MBA Certificate Program is commonly offered in instructor-led formats, with delivery options that may include online or in-person sessions, depending on scheduling. This flexibility supports professionals looking for an online MBA certificate course without sacrificing interaction.

How does this compare to other MBA certification programs or crash courses?

Compared to shorter or purely online MBA crash courses, this program offers broader coverage of business disciplines and deeper application. At the end of your 5 days, you’ll participate in an immersive team activity where you’ll apply everything you learned to a real business scenario. It’s well suited to professionals seeking one of the best MBA certificate programs focused on practical business leadership rather than theory alone.

What value does an MBA certificate provide for my career?

Earning an MBA certificate helps professionals strengthen business acumen, communicate more effectively across functions and make more-informed decisions. Many participants use this program to accelerate career growth, transition into management or broaden their leadership capabilities.

Can this course be delivered in house to support business leaders and immerging leaders?

Yes. This 5-day MBA certificate program can be delivered in house at your organization, in person or live online, to support business leaders and emerging leaders developing core MBA-level business and leadership capabilities. This corporate leadership training can be tailored to your organizational context, strategic priorities, and leadership expectations, ensuring practical, relevant learning that supports achieving business goals. To explore options, please contact us for more information.
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