MH Business School: Business Strategy
MH Business School recognizes the unique challenges posed by today’s VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) business environment. Our strategic focus is on empowering leaders and middle managers with advanced skills to navigate and manage their organizations successfully through these turbulent times.
Adaptability and Resilience: Leaders are equipped to quickly adapt to unexpected changes and rebound from setbacks. This capability is essential for maintaining stability and continuing growth even when external conditions are fluctuating.
Strategic Vision: Our programs enhance leaders’ abilities to foresee industry trends and prepare strategically for the future. This involves identifying opportunities that align with organizational goals and developing risk mitigation strategies to safeguard the company’s interests.
Effective Communication: Clear and persuasive communication is crucial. We train leaders to articulate their vision and necessary adaptations coherently, ensuring that every team member is on the same page and moving towards common objectives.
Informed Decision-Making: Leveraging data and analytics is a cornerstone of our curriculum. Leaders learn to utilize robust analytical tools to make well-informed decisions that optimize performance and drive the organization forward.
Fostering Innovation: To stay competitive, leaders must cultivate a culture that embraces innovation. Our programs encourage the development of new ideas and solutions, ensuring that the organization not only adapts to the present but also shapes the future.
Through our dedicated programs, MH Business School prepares leaders to meet the challenges of the VUCA world head-on, equipping them with the necessary skills to lead their organizations toward sustained success. Join us to transform your leadership approach and ensure your organization thrives in complexity and uncertainty.
“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flow charts. It's about one life influencing another.”
Leadership Academy
Systemic Leadership: Integral Team Management with SHERPA (12 hours online - 4 days/3hours)
Program Description
Modern business excellence depends to a large extent on the ability of teams to operate at their maximum capacity. The Leadership Academy is an advanced program in close collaboration with HRSCOUT designed to measure and improve the four key drivers of organizational performance (SHERPA): expertise, culture, engagement and innovation. These elements are critical to driving and sustaining team performance and well-being, leading organizations to excellence.
Key Elements of the Program
- Expertise: Evaluates and balances the skills and knowledge of the team to ensure optimal performance.
- Culture: Promotes a positive and productive work environment through effective communication and high morale.
- Engagement: Create environments that promote intrinsic motivation, focusing on autonomy, mastery and purpose.
- Innovation: Drives growth and competitiveness by encouraging creative freedom and the adoption of new ideas.
Program Objectives
- Optimizing Team Expertise: Developing key skills and knowledge to achieve optimal performance.
- Cultivate a Positive Organizational Culture: Promote effective communication and high morale.
- Improve Intrinsic Motivation and Engagement: Foster intrinsic motivation through autonomy and a sense of purpose.
- Foster Innovation and Adaptability: Encourage creativity and the adoption of new ideas.
- Use of Data Analysis for Decision Making: Applying data analytics to improve organizational performance (SHERPA).
Program Results
- Improving Skills and Knowledge Management: Strategies for developing and balancing team skills.
- Developing a Positive Organizational Culture: Tools for cultivating a collaborative and productive culture.
- Increasing Team Motivation and Engagement: Techniques to increase motivation and job satisfaction.
- Ability to Drive Innovation and Adapt to Change: Skills to foster an innovative and adaptive environment.
- Competence in Data Analysis for Decision Making: Skills for making strategic data-driven decisions (SHERPA).
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
Ralph Nader
Transition Programs
Ad-Hoc Solutions to Support Business Transitions
Program Description
MH Business School offers a suite of Transition Programs designed to guide organizations through various types of critical changes, ensuring successful adaptation and continuity in the face of inevitable business transitions. Each program is meticulously crafted to address specific challenges and cater to unique organizational needs.
Key Elements of the Transition Programs:
Cloud Strategies: We provide expert assistance to help steering committees evolve traditional business models into cloud-based operations. This includes strategic planning and execution to ensure a smooth transition, minimizing operational disruptions and aligning with future growth trajectories.
Generational Relay in Family Businesses: Our program facilitates the succession process within family-owned businesses, focusing on preserving the core values and culture of the company while ensuring a seamless leadership transition.
Organizational Change: We manage the transformation of organizational structures and internal processes to better align with evolving business demands and models, enhancing adaptability and resilience.
Post-Merger Integration: Our support extends to integrating entities post-merger or acquisition, focusing on creating effective synergies and a unified corporate culture to maximize the potential benefits of consolidation.
Digital Transformation: Guiding companies through digitalization, our program helps optimize processes and enhance competitiveness, ensuring that organizations not only adapt to but also thrive in the digital age.
Objectives of the Transition Programs:
- Facilitate Transitions to Cloud Businesses: Provide structured support for companies transitioning to cloud-based business models, ensuring technical and strategic alignment.
- Support Generational Relay: Develop comprehensive succession plans that maintain stability and continuity in family-owned businesses.
- Manage Organizational Change: Craft strategies to effectively restructure organizations, optimizing resource use and enhancing operational efficiency.
- Ensure Effective Post-Merger Integration: Implement integration processes that foster a cohesive company culture and maximize the value of mergers and acquisitions.
Results of the Transition Programs:
- Efficient Transition to Cloud Business: Companies successfully transition to cloud platforms, achieving enhanced operational efficiency with minimal disruption.
- Successful Generational Relays: Family businesses experience smooth leadership transitions, maintaining unity and preserving the company’s vision and values.
- Effective Organizational Change: Organizations become more agile and responsive to market demands through well-managed restructuring of internal processes.
- Smooth Post-Merger Integrations: Merged entities realize a harmonious integration, achieving a unified culture and enhanced synergies.
Tailored to meet each organization’s specific needs, MH Business School’s Transition Programs provide essential tools and expert guidance to navigate and master critical business transitions, ensuring sustainable growth and operational continuity in today’s dynamic and competitive business landscape.
“Transition in any organization is an opportunity for strategic rethinking.”
John P. Kotter
Change Management
Change Management: Residential program to activate change in organizations and teams.
Program Description
The Change Management program at MH Business School is specifically crafted to empower teams to effectively embrace and implement change, crucial for thriving in the dynamic business landscapes of today. This intensive program is delivered over a 2-3 day retreat, providing a focused, immersive environment conducive to profound organizational transformation.
Key Elements of the Program
- Initial Team Mindset Assessment: We begin by evaluating the team’s current readiness and capacity for change, setting the stage for targeted development.
- Change Skills Development: Participants receive training in advanced techniques and tools necessary to manage and lead change effectively.
- Collaborative Workshops: These sessions are designed to foster creativity and facilitate the co-creation of innovative solutions through dynamic team interactions.
- Strategic Change Planning: Teams will develop a customized action plan to address and implement specific changes within their organization.
Post-Retreat Support and Follow-up: We provide ongoing assistance to ensure the successful and sustainable implementation of the strategies developed during the retreat.
Program Objectives
- Foster an Open Mindset to Change: Cultivate a positive and proactive attitude towards change among team members.
- Develop Change Management Competencies: Equip participants with the practical skills needed to effectively lead and manage change initiatives.
- Create Customized Change Strategies: Tailor specific, actionable plans that are directly applicable to each organization’s needs.
- Facilitate the Co-Creation of Solutions: Encourage collaborative efforts to generate creative and effective solutions to change-related challenges.
- Ensure Successful Implementation of Change: Offer continuous support to guarantee that changes are executed effectively and results are lasting.
Program Results
- Strengthened Change Mindset: Teams will leave with an enhanced, open mindset towards change, better prepared to handle new challenges.
- Practical Change Management Skills: Participants will be adept in utilizing contemporary change management techniques and tools.
- Customized Action Plans: Organizations will have clear, bespoke strategies ready to be executed for effective change.
- Co-Created Innovative Solutions: Teams will have collaborated to design creative and viable solutions to their change challenges.
- Sustainable Change Implementation: Continued support ensures that the changes are not only implemented but are also enduring and successful.
Requirements and Participants
This program is ideal for team leaders, change managers, human resources managers, and any organizational members critical to the change process. Participants are expected to engage actively and be prepared to immerse themselves in an intensive, collaborative learning environment over the course of the retreat.
The Change Mindset program equips companies with the necessary tools and support to cultivate a culture open to change and develop practical skills to implement real, effective transformations, securing long-term success in today’s ever-evolving business world.
“Anticipate change and adapt before it becomes necessary.”
John P. Kotter
