St. Gallen Management Schools

Qualification for Management Positions

Preparing for Career Advancement

We would be happy to advise you individually, please contact our study directorate at
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Learn the profession of “management” professionally.

Where do you learn management?

In modern companies, there are many people who perform management tasks: As CEO, board member, managing director, head of marketing, head of finance, division manager, department manager, project manager and many more. They all lead people, deliver customer value, are responsible for investments, capital expenditure and value. Good management creates prosperity, bad management creates suffering and individual and social hardship.

So anyone who works in the profession of “manager” or executive – or so one would think – has undergone “vocational training”, as is the case for most other professions. Surely anyone who holds such an important position must have learned this profession?

Appearances are deceptive, because: At most universities and universities of applied sciences, you learn methods, theories, tools, knowledge and many parts of what constitutes management. You earn an MBA, an Executive MBA, a Master’s degree. You document that you can do something. But is this already a license to become a manager?

My answer is: “No”. An MBA proves that you have completed academic studies and acquired skills. Some of these will be needed, others not. The academic degree is a good basis. Nevertheless, much of what you would need for a career in management is not trained or not trained enough in a practical and specific way and is therefore not learned.

Now, you could argue that it is experience that, over time, gives you the knowledge you need to gradually become a good manager. That is certainly the case. But how long does it take to learn what you need? How many mistakes and wrong decisions do you make along the way? How much value is destroyed, how many jobs are lost, how many customers disappointed? Why not benefit from the best and learn the profession of manager properly?

Management as a profession is not (yet) sufficiently professionally trained. It is left to time, chance and trial and error to decide whether something works or not: a very unsatisfactory situation given the importance of the profession.

At St. Gallen Business School, we have been in close contact with a large number of people and organizations for decades. We examine what it takes to successfully practice this profession in a value-based and sustainable way. We see the need to understand management as a profession and to learn this profession in the best possible way, with a clear focus on practice and application.

The format for this is called: St. Gallen Management Schools. We thus answer the above question “Where do you learn management” with a unique offer: a mixture of the best management seminars, in-depth workshops and accompanying coaching. With a clear focus on the profession you already have or would like to have. With training and further education that is really useful.