The new 2009 Executive MBA
QUT has enhanced its Executive MBA for 2009 with a new program designed to take experienced managers to new levels as highly-skilled business leaders.
The concept of “knowing one’s self” lies at the forefront of this select program facilitating the development of a deep understanding of personal goals and leadership traits. This self-analysis process enhances learning outcomes from other critical business-skill units enabling professionals to maximise their potential to become the business leaders of tomorrow.
In addition to self-realisation and leadership the unique model for this new Executive MBA program integrates fundamental units with more advanced elements that include organisational transformation, entrepreneurship, governance and leadership. The program includes an international study tour to China, honing abilities to meet the demands of a quickly changing globalised society. During the tour participants will learn the intricacies of negotiating and conducting business in a foreign land and applying commercial expertise in a vastly different culture.
Additionally, the new program sees the introduction of leadership coaches who will help individual cohort members establish clear personal and career goals along with strategies for how they may be achieved.
With the Executive MBA’s greater emphasis on corporate governance and leadership, cohort members will undertake a leadership practicum by shadowing a CEO or company chairman. They will experience first-hand how these issues are handled in the real world at Board level.
The program accommodates no more than 40 busy executives who remain together as a cohort for 22 months. Weekend delivery on a monthly basis ensures disruption to busy work schedules is minimised and, typically, during this time, strong networks will be built, friendships formed and strategic leadership skills finely honed.
The Executive MBA is designed for people who:
- are in executive, senior and middle management positions who wish to become tomorrow’s business leaders,
- wish to complement their ‘real world’ knowledge with world-standard academic qualifications,
- have qualifications in a non-business field and want to strengthen their managerial capabilities,
- are looking for career advancement,
- own and operate their own or their family’s business, or
- consult to businesses in the Australian and international context.
Course structure
Intensive weekend class sessions allow participants to balance study with minimal interference to business commitments and assists participants to maintain career momentum.
Lectures are delivered from Friday to Sunday once each month for 22 months with each unit of the program providing a minimum of 21 hours face-to-face lecturer contact.
Participants will undertake 24, six-credit-point units as part of an integrated program combining the business-leader’s toolkit of core units with more advanced units designed to focus on self-development, international business, corporate governance and accountability, entrepreneurship and innovation, strategy and leadership.
Participants should allocate two to three hours of study outside class for every one hour inside the classroom (i.e. 10–15 hours per week reading, doing assignments, preparing for exams).The course includes an international study tour to China with site visits, lectures and cultural experiences. Students will meet with expatriates as well as local business people from a range of organisations including manufacturing, consulting, banking and finance, as well as representatives from Austrade. The tour will also include visits to some of China’s more famous attractions including the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, the Terracotta Warriors and more.
What past EMBA students say ...
“QUT’s Executive MBA helped me to build new analytical and strategic skills, and gave me a new way of looking at – and dealing with – the business challenges of the future. As I’m required to travel 35 – 40 weeks out of the year with work, the intensive, one weekend per month structure of the program allowed me to plan my work well in advance.”
- Arthur Alexander, 2007 student
“‘The Executive MBA course is one of the best formats I have seen for presenting an MBA. Yes, it is tough; however it is easy to prepare yourself well in advance if you are good at time management. Having the books pre-organised and food supplied during the course is excellent. Personally, I cannot speak more highly of the QUT Executive MBA course..”
- Sarah Dreaver, 2007 student
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Contact To discuss your eligibility and for more information contact: If you live in the greater Brisbane region, Peter will be happy to come to you to discuss your application. Current brochure 2008 EMBA brochure (PDF, 908Kb) Forms Application form (PDF, 116Kb) Referee Report form (Word, 57Kb) Academic Credit form (PDF, 96Kb) |