General management

General Management training programmes are part-time executive programmes that provide a helicopter view of management. These programmes cover basic concepts as well as the latest trends in several management fields.

General programmes

For each step in your management career, we offer a General Management programme that is geared to the training needs and professional challenges of that stage of your career and development:

  • Young Management Programme (EN)

    Optimise your management potential - Take the next step in your management career. Gain insight into your management capacities and make full use of them. A training programme for high-potential managers who want to expand their frame of reference on management.
    Duration: 5 modules of 3 days spread over 11 months + 3 individual coaching sessions
    Language: English (also available in Dutch)
  • Middle Management Programme

    A birds-eye view of management - A training programme for experienced managers who want to have a broader vision of their department and their organisation, and want to look at their experience in a wider context. An overview of basic concepts and trends in all aspects of management and integrating them in a practical case.
    Duration: 
    Residential formula: 11 modules of 2 days spread over 15 months
    Semi-residential formula: 16 day sessions and 3 two-day modules spread over 15 months
    Language: Dutch
  • International Management Programme

    Develop a global view on management - The programme offers global and cross-functional insight into the primary management domains. It provides a thorough understanding of management from a strategic and international perspective and enables participants to transfer newly acquired management skills and techniques to their daily professional environment, within the framework of international corporate strategy.
    Duration: 7 modules of 3 days, spread over 1 year
    Language: English
  • Advanced Management Programme

    Enhance your strategic leadership - The programme provides an overview of strategic insights, concepts and best practices, using the following key question as our guiding principle: “How do we create, allocate and capture value for the organisation?” It orientates toward a strategic and leadership perspective and focuses on strategy development, strategy deployment & strategy leverage.
    Duration: 9 modules of 2 days spread over 1 year
    Language: English
  • Advanced Management Programme - Reloaded

    Are you looking for a training programme that is every bit as inspiring as your participation in the Advanced Management Programme? Have you been meaning to set aside time for re-sourcing, but you're always too busy to make it happen?
    Here's your chance to: Hear 3 internationally renowned experts in person. Be inspired and challenged. Discuss candidly, in a small group of like-minded professionals, the issues that keep you awake at night.
    Duration: 6 days, residential
    Language: English

Comparative overview  of the target groups, objectives and focal points of these programmes

Short programmes

  • Become a grandmaster in management

    Become a grandmaster in management! From 9.00 am to 5.45 pm, Professor Marc Buelens and Doctor Annick Van Rossem take you through the most important management insights that every professional needs to master. And we don't sit still during lunch either. By means of a business game, you get the chance to put theory into practice.
    Duration: 1 day, from 8.30 am - 5.45 pm
    Language: Dutch
    • Management bestsellers read for you

      There often isn't enough time to look up and read the best management books to keep up with recent insights in management Vlerick summarises them for you in six evenings, and gives you a critical analysis of each book.
      Duration: 6 evenings from 7.30 pm - 9 pm
      Language: Dutch
    • Project Management

      Project working increases the strategic competitiveness of your business. This programme gives you an insight into how to set up and carry out projects, and teaches you to recognise and avoid possible problems associated with projects.
      Duration: 4 days from 9 am - 5.30 pm
      Language: Dutch

      Programmes for specific industries

      For several sectors, we offer a General Management programme that is geared to the training needs and professional challenges within that particular sector

      SME programmes

      • SME Challenge

        Anyone starting up a small business faces challenges which are different from those of the manager of a large business. Discover the whole range of SME management techniques and acquire a carefully considered business plan.
        Duration: 12 evening sessions from 7 pm - 10 pm, 1 residential seminar and 3 panel sessions
        Language: Dutch
      • SME Excellence

        As an experienced SME owner, you have plenty of plans for your company. SME Excellence offers you a critical sounding board of colleagues and experts for your plans, plus a broad base of management competencies for the SME.
        Duration: 19 evening sessions  from 7 pm - 10 pm and 2 residential seminars
        Language: Dutch

      Interim management

      • Mastering Interim Management

        An advanced management programme designed for experienced interim and change managers. This programme will increase the interim manager’s ability to accomplish interim assignments successfully and to firmly establish the changes introduced.
        Duration: 5 modules of 1-2 days
        Language: English

      Health care

      • General Management for the hospital physician

        With this programme, the clinical physician develops skills to run and organise his new management activities in line with the hospital's vision and objectives.
        Duration: 4 days from 9.30 am - 5.30 pm
        Language: Dutch

      Service industry