About Malawi Institute of Management: The Executive Director’s Introduction

Kanengo campus, MIM’s permanent home, is endowed with purpose-designed seminar and syndicate rooms, computer laboratory, learning resource center, campus-wide computer network, squash and tennis courts and volleyball pitch, among others.  The campus provides a total learning environment geared to enhancing the quality of our activities. The following pages outline exciting programmes which are on offer and are summarized below:

1. Training Programmes

a. Generic Programme
The success of our training programmes over the past years has hinged on MIM’s adherence to general approach to training adults.  The carefully designed curriculum for 2010 will continue to center around action learning, so that our participants actually learn by doing or by observing their classmates performance.

All of the key management functions from planning to monitoring and evaluation will be performed under the continuing scrutiny of MIM faculty.

For the sake of efficiency and to address learning more specifically, tasks will sometimes be simulated or centered on hypothetical cases.  Often however, they will address real cases based on the participants’ own job or work programmes.

It is the practical, applied nature of MIM’s training that makes it so relevant and attractive to management practitioners.  Frequently, participants who have taken one of our generic courses come back to MIM to request that the same course be offered to their colleagues on an in-house basis so that the connection between class-room and job experience can be more direct.

The courses listed on the following pages constitute MIM’s generic programme for the year 2010.  You will be notified of new courses which will be developed during the year when they are ready.

b. In-House Courses
Another area of interest to MIM is in-house training (training a number of participants from one organization in response to particular needs of that institution).  This has an impact over and above that achieved through the generic training programme.

Experience has shown that in-house courses have more positive impact on organizations than generic ones since they are custom-made to fit specific requirements of the organization in question.  We, therefore, hope that you will come forward and ask for our services in this area of our activities.

In-house training will enhance the effectiveness of MIM’s I-D-I (Identity-Design-Implement) approach, facilitating an even closer fit between the problems identified in an organization and the solution designed to resolve those problems.

2. Collaborated Training Programmes

 a. Masters Degree Programme

1.         MSc in Strategic Management
MIM in collaboration with University of Derby (UK) is offering an 18 months MSc in Strategic Management Modular programme.  This course started in April 2000 and is becoming more popular each year.  It is through an assisted distance learning in that 3 days of each month, Derby faculty come to MIM and coach the students.  The 2010/11 programme starts in April 2010.

2.         MSc in Supply Chain Management
MIM in collaboration with University of Bolton has introduced a new Masters programme: MSc in Supply Chain Management. The first cohort for this programme started in November 2007 and it is also an 18 months programme.

b. University of Cambridge Courses
MIM is a British Council attached Center for University of Cambridge professional courses.  Tuition classes for the following courses are on offer:

Cambridge International Diploma in Project Management (4pcm). For more information visit www.4cpm.net

Further details on this award can be obtained from the Institute.

c. Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS)
MIM is listed as a study centre for Certificate and Diploma of CIPS programmes. This means that for the first time in the history of the institute, MIM is running courses leading to CIPS qualifications.

d. Regional AIDS Training Network (RATN)
For over five years now, MIM has been a member of RATN based in Nairobi, Kenya. As a member, the Institute has been running two RATN collaborated courses that are meant for participants from the Eastern and Southern African Region. These courses are:

Communication and Behaviour Change: Principles and Practices
Management and Adminstration course for HIV and AIDS programme/Project Managers

3.      Consulting Programmes

The consulting programme itself will continue to aim at bringing the skills and knowledge of our faculty together with the needs and objectives of our clients.

The areas in which MIM’s consultants are experts continue to expand and include the following:

Business Management
Economics and Project Management
Finance and Accounting
General Management
Human Resource Management
Information Technology
HIV and AIDS

Based on our perpetual contact with Malawian managers in the generic training programme and our involvement in consulting projects, our consultants have developed a unique knowledge of management concerns in all sectors of the economy.  This background knowledge, along with our experience in diverse areas of management and operations, enables us to provide consulting services to our clients.

4.      Executive Assessment

Most organizations and individuals may not be aware of the Senior Staff Assessment Centre Programme put in place to assist parastatals assess their senior management cadre for development purposes and to help them select their senior managers in a more scientific manner than had hitherto been the case.  The same programme is now available to organizations in the private sector and government.

5.      Conference Facilitation

Development of a conference and workshop facilitation programme is another of MIM’s innovations.  In the absence of any Malawian organization to provide logistical support for international and national conferences related to management development, the Institute had to assume responsibility for developing a degree of expertise in this area as well, hence donors and other organizations sponsoring such meetings may wish to call on us.

6.      Hiring out of Facilities

MIM offers its conference facilities including accommodation and cafeteria for hire at competitive prices.

At the request of our clients, we also provide teaching aids such as flip charts, overhead projectors and public address systems.  Logistical support including photocopying and secretarial services can be made available. Price list available here

We look forward to your use of our many services during the 2010 programme year.