These lectures are designed for post 16 students and will last 1 hour. Where applicable, each session has been aligned with content delivered on the A Level syllabus but is designed to give students an idea of how the subject would be taught at the university level.
Typical lecture content could include:
1. Workplace health & wellbeing – Why it’s important and how to embed it into your organisation.
This lecture is aimed at educating the next generation of entrepreneurs to understand the value of having a healthy workforce & how it positively impacts on the bottom line of an organisation.
2. Positive workplace culture - creating a happy, healthy, and engaged workforce.
This lecture is aimed as celebrating employees as individuals and the value they bring to an organisation if they are engaged and enjoy being at work.
3. How to create a creative thinking workplace culture.
This lecture is aimed at showing that creative thinking works within any organisation and how to harness the potential of employees.
4. Political and Economic Risk.
The world is increasingly volatile and uncertain. A key aspect of business strategy is the ability to identify risk and opportunities through environmental scanning. One aspect of environmental scanning is the ability to spot risks and opportunities emerging from the world of politics and economics. This lecture introduces students to the political and economic world and techniques for spotting the risks and opportunities that emerge from them.
5. An Introduction to Business Strategy.
The difference between success and failure in any area of performance might be whether an individual/organisation has an appropriate strategy. This lecture introduces students to theories and concepts related to business strategy taking students on a journey that begins with identification of what we mean by strategy all the way to exploring what makes a good strategy through examination of successful case studies.
6. Leadership Styles.
Exploring the difference between leadership and management from an organisational perspective.
7. Understanding Organisational Environments.
Using environmental scanning tools to better understand the environment in which organisations operate within.
8. Marketing in a digital age.
Looking at the power of social media and the use of influencers in marketing.
9. Corporate Financing and Firm Innovation. How do firms finance their innovation activities?
This lecture is aims to explore the intrinsic relationship between capital structure and firm’s innovativeness. It tries to answer how different leverage levels influence firms’ innovation investment decisions and performance; and tries to reveal the nonlinear effect imposed by leverage on innovation.
How to book: Please contact [email protected] if you would like to book a session.