Shourt Course: Innovation Management
About
At Ulster University, we understand the unique challenges and opportunities that family firms face in developing leadership capabilities.
This programme is designed to support practising family firm managers and next-generation leaders in aspects of business, management and leadership. The course will help them to gain a better appreciation of their role within both the family and the firm, making them a more effective manager and leader in the future.
This course will help prepare your successors to lead with confidence. Family businesses often deal with intricate relationships among family members and key stakeholders, offering practical strategies and techniques to manage these dynamics effectively, fostering harmony and collaboration.
While preserving tradition is essential, embracing innovation is equally crucial for sustainable growth. Our programme empowers your firm to adopt modern practices and technology while maintaining your core values.
The course will cover the following topics:
- Family Business Dynamics
- Leading and Managing People
- Commercial Awareness
- Strategy & Change
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This course will primarily enable progression and succession in any career, though most applicable to the family enterprise.
Transferable skills include the ability to:
- Demonstrate innovative and enterprise skills and appreciate the challenges inherent in Family Entrepreneurial practice.
- Effect organisational change through strategic and effective leadership.
- Be self-directed and act autonomously in planning and completing projects and implementing recommendations.
- Communicate effectively and interact with groups and individuals at all organisational levels.
- Utilise skills of personal effectiveness: critical self-awareness, self-reflection and self-management, alongside the ability to manage time and people.
- Demonstrate effective two way communication skills: listening, effective oral and written communication using a range of media, including the preparation of business reports.
Delivery format
The course is assessed via 100% coursework. Participants will deliver a presentation and compile a portfolio based on their own family enterprise.
Knowledge and understanding of the subject is disseminated through methods which reflect the distinctive nature of a mini-MBA module. Therefore, applied learning utilising live, in-company examples and students' own work experience will feature in many of the learning situations A mix of assessments, both formative and summative will be utilised.
Campus
Belfast
Term Dates
The course is taught face to face during semester 2 (Feb-April 2025), one day per fortnight, over 5 full days total, dates TBC.
Further Information
Modules
This is a 15 credit module short course - see the about section for details of content.
Entry requirements
You should hold a Second-Class Honours Degree or better OR have significant managerial / business experience and work in a family-owned business.
Eligibility
Places are limited and open to applicants who:
- are over 18 years of age;
- are eligible to work in Northern Ireland;
- are ‘settled’ in Northern Ireland, and has been ordinarily resident in the UK for at least three years; or
- are a person who has indefinite leave to enter or remain in the UK.
- meet the course specific entry requirements above.
- meet the Ulster University general entry requirements
Apply now - limited places available
There are a limited number of places for this course. Offers will be extended to those applicants who meet the entry requirements following successful completion of the application process. Applications will no longer be accepted or processed once all offers are extended. Applications will no longer be accepted or processed once all places are filled. Applications can not be considered once a course has started.
Please note you can only be funded by DfE for a maximum of two courses at any one time (including modules to a total of 45 credits per semester - if studying part-time).
- Click on the Apply Now button.
- This will take you to the online application system – if you have never used this before please click on First Time user account creation and create an account.
- Log into the system and click on New – create a new application.
- Choose Professional Develop Postgrad as the Application Type
- Choose Admission Term Academic Year 2024-2025 and complete your details.
- Click the Fill Out Application button.
- Click on Programme Selection.
- In the programme choice dropdown please choose: PG Cred Upskilling SKILLS PT Belfast.
- Please type the title of the short course you wish to study in the box below the programme choice: Mini MBA in Family Business
- For the question, Are you applying for a funded place on one of the DfE Skills programmes?, select Yes.
- Please complete all required application sections.
- Ensure your application is complete and then submit.
- You will receive a confirmation email that the application has been submitted, please ensure you check your junk mail as well as the inbox of the e-mail address listed on your application.
- If you have sent all required information and you have been successful, you will receive an unconditional offer. You must accept this offer via email and confirm acceptance online to secure your place.
- If you have not sent all required information, you will be asked to send outstanding items. If a place is still available and you have met all requirements, you will receive an unconditional offer. You must accept this offer via email and confirm acceptance online to secure your place.
IMPORTANT: If we have requested additional items, you do not have a guaranteed place. You may lose your space if you do not provide any required information by the deadline supplied in the Request for documentation Email - Once your place is accepted, you will receive an enrolment email. You must complete the online enrolment to confirm your place and start your course.