5-Day Mini MBA for the Mining Industry

Engineers and geologists are promoted for being good at engineering and geology, then spend their days on budgets, people and board papers. This week covers the commercial and managerial ground they were never taught, set entirely in mining: the strategy of a cyclical commodity business, the financial statements of a mining company, how capital is allocated between competing pits, and the leadership problem of running crews across shifts and contractors.

It runs 4 times over the published calendar, in 4 cities. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Read a mining company's accounts and know what matters in them.
• Build and defend a budget and a capital request.
• Apply strategy tools to a cyclical, price taking business.
• Allocate scarce capital between competing operational cases.
• Lead a technical workforce across shifts and contractors.

Mine managers and superintendents, senior engineers and geologists stepping into management, technical services leads, and functional heads at operating mines.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A capital request written to the standard your board expects.
• A strategic review of your own operation.
• A personal development plan for the move into management.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.