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Kaduna Business School

2026 Corporate Learning Portfolio

01. EXECUTION: TURNING PLANS INTO RESULTS

  • The Reality: Plans rarely fail in the thinking; they fail in the doing—in the quiet gap between leadership decisions and actual organizational delivery. This programme equips leaders to convert intent into coordinated action, eliminate budget leaks, and make execution a reliable institutional capability.
  • Core Capabilities Acquired: Participants will learn to diagnose structural delivery breakdowns, deploy rigorous prioritization tools under pressure, and establish clear, time-bound accountability protocols without resorting to micromanagement.
  • Target Audience: Mid-level managers, unit heads with direct reports, project managers handling cross-functional delivery, and L&D professionals designing performance systems.
  • Logistics: 3-Day Virtual Programme (Zoom) | March 17–19, 2026 | ₦225,000 per participant.

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02. LEADING ACROSS BOUNDARIES

  • The Reality: Most managers carry full responsibility for delivery but have zero formal authority over the external colleagues, departments, or agencies they depend on to achieve results. This programme builds the lateral influence, political judgment, and stakeholder craft required to mobilize effort across organizational lines.
  • Core Capabilities Acquired: Mastery of strategic stakeholder interest mapping, frameworks for building lateral trust across institutional cultures, and the ability to navigate competing organizational agendas with personal integrity.
  • Target Audience: Project and programme leads, department heads with cross-functional mandates, policy/planning officers, and senior managers moving into executive roles.
  • Logistics: 3-Day Virtual Programme (Zoom) | April 28–30, 2026 | ₦225,000 per participant.

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03. FINANCE FOR OPERATIONAL LEADERS

  • The Reality: Leading a department or MDA without financial literacy creates a permanent, expensive blind spot. In resource-scarce environments, operational leaders must have the fluency to plan, defend, and control budgets while making decisions that stand up to external audit and financial scrutiny.
  • Core Capabilities Acquired: The ability to read and extract management insights from core financial statements, build defensible departmental budgets, and accurately appraise the financial risks of procurement and capital expenditure.
  • Target Audience: Non-financial managers, HODs, public sector directors, technical specialists (engineers, HR, lawyers), and scaling SME owners.
  • Logistics: 3-Day Virtual Programme (Zoom) | May 19–21, 2026 | ₦225,000 per participant.

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04. THE NEW MANAGER TRANSITION

  • The Reality: The technical strengths that make a great individual contributor are not the skills that make a capable manager. Left to instinct, new managers default to doing instead of leading. This programme replaces costly trial-and-error with the explicit mindset and habits required to manage people.
  • Core Capabilities Acquired: Transitioning from individual output to team leadership, setting clear performance standards, conducting difficult feedback conversations constructively, and establishing upward credibility.
  • Target Audience: Newly promoted managers (first 12–18 months), senior individual contributors earmarked for promotion, and high-potential pipeline talent.
  • Logistics: 3-Day Virtual Programme (Zoom) | June 9–11, 2026 | ₦225,000 per participant.

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05. BUILDING AND DEVELOPING YOUR TEAM

  • The Reality: A leader’s results are only as good as the team around them. Hiring, onboarding, and retention determine whether an organizational unit compounds in capability or merely fills seats. This programme equips managers to build high-performing teams deliberately.
  • Core Capabilities Acquired: Conducting objective team capability assessments, implementing structured selection approaches, accelerating new hire contribution times, and creating retention cultures without inflating expectations.
  • Target Audience: Unit managers looking to transition from managing individuals to scaling a team, senior HODs tracking succession planning, and HR business partners.
  • Logistics: 3-Day Virtual Programme (Zoom) | July 21–23, 2026 | ₦225,000 per participant.

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06. INFLUENCE AND STAKEHOLDER COMMUNICATION

  • The Reality: Beyond basic technical competence, a leader’s trajectory and organizational impact are decided entirely by communication. This programme sharpens the capacity to present with authority, move senior audiences to decisions, and secure funding for critical initiatives.
  • Core Capabilities Acquired: Structuring complex technical arguments for executive decision-makers, managing high-stakes Q&A with authority, writing concise executive briefs, and safely communicating unwelcome data upward.
  • Target Audience: Managers presenting to boards/ministers, regulators, external relationship managers, and technical experts transitioning to visible institutional roles.
  • Logistics: 3-Day Virtual Programme (Zoom) | August 18–20, 2026 | ₦225,000 per participant.

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07. MANAGING PERFORMANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY

  • The Reality: Avoidance of honest performance management breeds mediocrity and drives top talent to disengage. This programme gives managers the specific frameworks and the professional nerve to hold performance to account fairly, consistently, and without conflict-aversion.
  • Core Capabilities Acquired: Setting clear performance benchmarks, diagnosing the root causes of underperformance (skill vs. motivation), and executing legally and procedurally fair performance correction actions.
  • Target Audience: Line managers handling disengaged teams, HODs restructuring departmental culture, and HR compliance officers.
  • Logistics: 3-Day Virtual Programme (Zoom) | September 22–24, 2026 | ₦225,000 per participant.

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08. LEADING ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSITIONS

  • The Reality: Restructuring, policy shifts, and funding swings are standard operating realities across the public and private sectors. The challenge is navigating these shifts without forfeiting institutional capability, trust, or operational momentum.
  • Core Capabilities Acquired: Anticipating and managing the psychology of change resistance, building transition communication plans that protect institutional trust, and locking in new operational workflows to prevent reversion.
  • Target Audience: Directors managing mergers or restructuring, HODs deploying disruptive technology/policy mandates, and change management project leads.
  • Logistics: 3-Day Virtual Programme (Zoom) | October 20–22, 2026 | ₦225,000 per participant.

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09. DECISION-MAKING UNDER PRESSURE

  • The Reality: High-stakes decisions rarely arrive with perfect information or adequate time. Under pressure, leaders fall back on systematic cognitive shortcuts that mislead, causing expensive misallocations of resources. This course introduces disciplined structure to judgment.
  • Core Capabilities Acquired: Isolating and neutralizing cognitive biases in real-time, executing structured decision tools (scenario analysis, pre-mortems), and building collective intelligence without falling prey to groupthink.
  • Target Audience: Mid-to-senior operational leaders, risk/compliance managers, public sector officials navigating intersecting technical and political accountability.
  • Logistics: 3-Day Virtual Programme (Zoom) | November 10–12, 2026 | ₦225,000 per participant.

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10. SENIOR MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME (SMP): LEADING AT THE NEXT LEVEL

  • The Reality: KBS Flagship Programme. Every career hits an inflection point where the operational habits that brought success at the departmental level become insufficient at executive scale. Senior leadership demands enterprise-level systems thinking, wider horizons, and navigating high ambiguity.
  • Core Capabilities Acquired: Transitioning from linear problem-solving to systems-level analysis, mastering the art of managing other managers, translating multi-layer strategy, and establishing commanding executive presence.
  • Target Audience: High-performing HODs preparing for director-level roles, divisional corporate managers, and public sector officials at GL 14–16 or equivalent.
  • Logistics: 5-Day Intensive Virtual Programme (Zoom) | November 24–28, 2026 | ₦375,000 per participant.

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11. ADVANCED MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME (AMP): LEADERSHIP AND SYSTEMS THINKING

  • The Reality: KBS Flagship Programme. At the apex of an organization, the task is no longer to manage complexity, but to steer dynamic, highly interconnected systems. This programme develops strategic judgment and long-horizon institutional stewardship for leaders carrying ultimate organizational survival.
  • Core Capabilities Acquired: Structuring interventions at points of greatest systemic leverage, building long-range corporate strategy that adapts without losing coherence, balancing internal delivery with external regulatory/political realities, and securing institutional legacy.
  • Target Audience: CEOs, Managing Directors, Executive Directors, Heads of Government Agencies, and scaling SME founders.
  • Logistics: 5-Day Intensive Virtual Programme (Zoom) | December 15–19, 2026 | ₦425,000 per participant.

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12. INTEGRITY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND GOVERNANCE

  • The Reality: Governance is built in daily, private executive decisions, not compliance paperwork. Organizations with explicit governance cultures show significantly lower rates of misconduct and enjoy an enduring, measurable stakeholder trust advantage.
  • Core Capabilities Acquired: Designing internal accountability architectures that minimize risk, navigating statutory Nigerian governance and procurement mandates (ICPC, public procurement), and building a culture of institutional integrity under intense political pressure.
  • Target Audience: Senior public sector leaders, agency heads, corporate risk/compliance directors, internal auditors, and non-executive board trustees.
  • Logistics: 3-Day Virtual Programme (Zoom) | January 12–14, 2027 | ₦225,000 per participant.

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13. STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERS

  • The Reality: Strategy is not a heavy document; it is a clear set of hard operational choices about where to focus, what to fund, and what to stop doing. This programme bridges the gap between annual planning cycles and everyday strategic execution.
  • Core Capabilities Acquired: Facilitating dynamic planning processes that yield explicit choices, converting corporate strategy into perfectly aligned departmental workplans, and building continuous strategic environmental scanning into year-round culture.
  • Target Audience: Directors leading planning units, strategy officers in corporates/MDAs, and management advisors.
  • Logistics: 3-Day Virtual Programme (Zoom) | February 9–11, 2027 | ₦225,000 per participant.

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Corporate & Institutional Bookings: Bespoke cohort delivery is available for organizations requiring aligned training for entire management tiers. Group rates apply for registrations of 3 or more participants across all calendar programmes.

Programme Participation: Applications are processed on a rolling enrolment basis. Secure institutional placement via kbs.edu.ng/apply.

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Direct Enquiries: Contact the Executive Education Coordinator at musa.maigida@kbs.edu.ng or call +234 (0) 816 841 6961.