Course Code: C 5400

Award in Leadership & Management

(MQF Level 6)

An Educational Services

Provider Licensed By

Brochure Published By Equinox Academy, a branch of Equinox Advisory Ltd.

Equinox Advisory Ltd,

36 Archbishop Street,

Valletta VLT 1447,

Malta

(+356) 2137 6242

http://www.equinoxadvisory.com

bernard.mallia@equinoxadvisory.com

Publication Date:

Authors:

Reviewer:

January 2017

Ian Pisani

Bernard Mallia

Document Version: 1

Copyright Equinox Academy, 2017. All rights reserved.

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About Equinox Academy

We are a team of specialists passionate about

our work and with a common ambition to

share learning experiences with people in the

business community as well as with civil

servants and civil society.

Our training and educational services take a

holistic view. We usually (when budget is

available) start from a thorough training

needs analysis that looks at desired

organisational performance and the skills

required to achieve it as well as those

available to the organisation, all the way to

learning styles assessments and the provision

of the training courses themselves, designed

in line with the learning styles of the

attendees. We also assist organisations in the

application for funding of training courses

from sources available at that point in time.

Our training is targeted, interactive and

relevant. It focuses on the behaviours

necessary for the achievement of business

objectives. We aim, wherever possible, to

deliver measurable performance

improvement, and support our work with

deep knowledge of measurement and

evaluation of learning. Our ability to combine

training and subject matter expertise across

systems and processes allows us focus on

improving operational performance.

Therefore, our solutions often go beyond

‘training’. We understand that performance

is influenced by a combination of factors, and

we seek to influence them as broadly as

possible. Most of our solutions represent a

blended approach to learning, reflecting our

belief that only the right mix of media,

tailored to the audience, will result in

behavioural change that can bring about

performance improvement.

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The Leadership and Management (MQF Level 6) programme is designed to provide junior and

middle managers with the leadership and managerial skills to succeed in in today's work

environment. The course aims to make participants reflect on different cases and scenarios that

one may encounter in the workplace, and how these may be dealt with. The course will consider

the foundations of management and leadership, the organisational environment and how this

influences decision making, the different functions of management, financial analysis, and

managing people.

This course is composed of the following modules:

Module 1: Foundations of Leadership & Management

Module 2: Management and leadership in practice

Module 3: Planning, Controlling and Financial Analysis

Module 4: The Management Environment and Decision Making

Module 5: Managing people in organisations

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Module 1:

Tutor: Time:Date:Sessions:

Foundations of Leadership & Management

Diana Spiteri17.15 – 19.453rd, 10th, 17th, 24th March, 20174 sessions of 2.5 hours each

• The Nature of Managerial Work: Is Management an art or a science?• Theory and history of management• Contemporary managerial issues• The management process• Internal and external environments and how these effect effectiveness• The difference between leadership and management• Leadership Theories and Styles• Corporate Social Responsibility• International Business and the global economy

Module 2:

Tutor: Time:Date:Sessions:

Management and leadership in practiceDiana Spiteri17.15 – 19.4529th March, 5th, 13th April, 20173 sessions of 2.5hrs hours each

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• Leadership Imperatives in Organisations• Personal effectiveness• Becoming an Effective Leader• Assessing your Leadership Style• Motivation• Emotional Intelligence• Communication skills• Presentation skills• The art of Negotiation• Managing Stress and difficult situations

Module 3:

Tutor: Time:Date:Sessions:

Planning, Controlling and Financial Analysis

Bernard Mallia17.15 – 19.4520th, 28th April, 4th May, 20173 sessions of 2.5hrs hours each

• Strategic Management and Planning• Strategy Execution and Finance• Introduction to financial control• Costing methods• Interpretation and analysis of company financials• The control functions in organisations

Module 4:

Tutor:

Time:

The Management Environment and Decision Making

Diana Spiteri, Reece Delia

17.15 – 19.45

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Date:Sessions:

12th, 19th, 26th May, 2017 3 sessions of 2.5 hours each

Module 5: Tutor: Time:Date:Sessions:

Managing people in organisations Diana Spiteri17.15 – 19.459th, 16th, 23rd June, 20173 sessions of 2.5 hours each

• Building & Selecting the right effective team and maximising their efficiency• Job analysis and job design• Recruitment and Selection• Supervision and Performance• Change Management

• The decision-making process• Theories of decision-making• Group decision-making• The internal and external environment of the organisation and how this

affects decision-making• Managerial issues related to the global economy• Culture and diversity in organisations

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Our trainer for this module is Bernard Mallia. Our executive training is

exclusively designed for professionals and we strongly believe that

professionals should not just expect a trainer who can walk them

through theory. Our training aims, and is accordingly designed, to be

much more than that. We choose our trainers on the basis of their

proven business and problem-solving abilities. Bernard Mallia is an

experienced business professional with strong number crunching and

data analysis skills who also happens to be passionate about lecturing

and imparting skills. Bernard is the person with whom our clients share

practical real-life scenarios and difficulties with the intent of finding

solutions. This makes our method of delivery a well- balanced trade-off

between broad-insight lecturing and problem- specific consulting. The

feedback that we have elicited from our bespoke training sessions given

by Bernard were invariably very positive both inasmuch as the trainer

himself is concerned, and also with respect to the delivery method he

has used.

Bernard is an experienced independent consultant and adviser in the

fields of economics, project management, ICT and Information Systems.

He has a polymathic background and was awarded his first degree in

Commerce with a specialisation in Public Policy and Economics, as well

as an honours degree in Public and Private Sector Management from

the University of Malta. He pursued post- graduate studies at the

University of Edinburgh where he read for a M.Sc. in Economics, and at

the European University where he read for a M.Sc. in Information

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Systems. He has also been the recipient of diplomas in Computerised Bookkeeping (IAB), Project Management (CIC), and Advertising and Public Relations (CIC). Bernard is a certified MS Office advanced user and a SQL Server 2005 Microsoft Certified Professional. Bernard delivers courses in:

• MS Excel• Odds and Gaming• Financial Planning & Budgeting• Risk Management• Project Management• Regulatory Policy and Institutions

Diana Spiteri obtained a B.A (Hons) in Europeans Studies at the University of Malta and has over eight years’ experience in EU Affairs, of which, over four years in Research and Innovation (R&I) Programmes, Projects and Policy. Diana Spiteri was Malta’s Programme Committee Member and National Contact Point for Research and Innovation at EU Level for SMEs, International Cooperation, Energy, Environment, Transport (incl. Aviation), Health as well as other areas.Diana Spiteri simultaneously worked on coaching both national and international clients with their R&I, to help them develop their ideas into concrete winning projects as well as enable them to team up

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with key international experts for the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and Horizon 2020. Diana Spiteri has also held a number of stakeholder meetings in various sectors especially in her role for Strategy - thus enabling Public, Private, Academic and European relations to secure engagement for collaboration, whilst also assisting individual researchers and entities to network and partner up to better their expertise and collaborate with others in Europe and beyond.Moreover, Diana Spiteri has conducted a number of trainings both locally and abroad, related to coaching ideas from innovation to market given her experience with managing national, regional and EU funding programmes. She has also held training workshops on proposal writing, evaluation, reporting and financials for local and EU funds, thus ensuring that clients can truly master the innovation cycle to deliver innovation driven ideas to market.

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Reece Delia is in the possession of a first-class Bachelor in Commerce in Accountancy and Banking and Finance from the University of Malta. He then further pursued his studies within the aforementioned institution, attaining a distinction in his Master in Accountancy in 2016 and joining the firm soon after.

Apart from his passion for accounting, Reece is also interested in the fields of cultural diversity, cross-cultural negotiations and multiculturalism. This is the result of his love for languages, being professionally competent in seven European languages. Having had several experiences working and interacting with people from across the globe, including his two cultural exchanges in France in 2014 and 2015, as well as his post as liaison officer and interpreter for the delegation of Gabon during the Valletta Migration Summit held in November 2015, he has taken a further keen interest in the field of cultural diversity, in which he is specializing further.

He has therefore started delivering particular modules on the topic with respect to two main courses offered by Equinox Academy: Negotiation Skills; and Leadership and Management.

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Price for all 5 modules, 16 sessions is of Euro 950 which is inclusive of the following:

Course Notes

Examination Fee

Certificate

Refreshments

Free Parking

One may also wish to register for individual

modules.

This course qualifies for Get Qualified funding. For more information and for the

application forms, please visit http://www.maltaenterprise.com/en/support/get-

qualified

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Sessions for this course will be held as follows:

Module 1 – 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th March, 2017Module 2 – 29th March, 5th, 13th April, 2017Module 3 – 20th, 28th April, 4th May, 2017Module 4 – 12th, 19th, 26th May, 2017Module 5 – 9th, 16th, 23rd June, 2017

The sessions above will be held in English.

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To be announced closer to start-of-course date

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Contact Details

Equinox Advisory Ltd, 36 Archbishop Street, Valletta VLT 1447, Malta

(+356) 2137 6242 (+356) 9940 3204

http://www.equinoxadvisory.com equinoxacademy@equinoxadvisory.com

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