Strategic Management Institute for Africa (SMIA) is duly registered and incorporated in Swaziland and United Kingdom Under the Business Registration Act for incorporated Companies . By virtue of the authority granted under the power of the act, we are legally and lawfully permitted to conduct capacity building programmes. Which is aimed at improving the knowledge and skills of personnel at all levels, both in the private, public and non-governmental sectors.

SMIA’s mission in this millennium is to be part of the premier training frontier for the delivery of customized and effective training methodologies that are guided by both National and International training policy standards.

SMIA is a training, research and consulting organization to provide Business Communication and Strategic Management development programme aim at improving the knowledge and skills through training courses, workshops and seminars to private, public and Non-governmental sector at all levels.

In the field of Communication, SMIA provides courses and training in public Relatio9ns and Customer Management, Communication skills, Public Speaking, Project formulation and Management, Research methodology and Report writing among others.

 In Business Management field, SMIA’s courses include: Strategic Performance management systems (SPMS), Strategic Management, International Borrowing & Debt Management, Bank Restructuring & Governance, Investment Banking & Credit Administration, Management Accounting & Financial Planning course, Records and Data management, Supervisory management skills, Investigative management, Leadership Skills , Procurement and Logistics management, Finance and Project management (for NGO;s), Management Development programmes for managers and Executive Administrators, Energy management, Financial management, Information Technology and development, Gender Issues and Sustainable development, Strategic Human Resource management, Empowerment management and “Strategic open systemic thinking for Managers” among others.

In Power/Electricity Utilities field, our courses include: Energy management; Engineering, Planning & Management in the Electrical utility industry course (EPMEU); Transformers Today: Assets Management and Maintenance course; Electric Utility Management for Non-Engineers course (EUMNE).

SMIA awards internationally recognized certificates and diplomas to candidates upon successful completion of each training programme. Admission procedures are standardized, there may be some variations from course to course and this can be found on each course descriptio9n.

Our challenge in this millennium is to be part of the premier training frontier for the delivery of customized and effective training methodologies for the region and the continent.

 

SMIA’s MANAGEMENT
SMIA is an autonomous research and training institution, and operates under the control of the Board of Directors comprising representatives from Industry, Government and the Universities. The Director, who is the Chief Executive, heads it.

OUR MISSION
“SMIA’S MISSION is to develop a World class training programmes through the provision of quality and professional learning opportunities accessible to all of our current and future stakeholders” To provide training through courses, workshops, and seminars to private parastatals and public sectors at all levels of an organization:

 To facilitate the development of an administrative group of experts who arev skillful, efficient and advanced in line with scientific development and technique of management.
 To enhance clients’ overall performance andv investment opportunities through the preparation and analysis of their financial and management statement
 To design and put in place an effective system ofv checks and balances in determination and prevention of fraudulent practices in clients’ organization.
 To provide managerial knowledge and skills tov individual employees of an organization.
 To provide consultancies to publicv parastatals and private sectors.
 To conduct research into the social andv economic problems for individual organizations
 To provide strategicv business management and communication skills and knowledge to junior, middle and top management.
 To establish linkages with local and international agenciesv and institutions for strategic collaborative alliance to promote development and capacity building for mankind.

UNIQUE FEATURES
SMIA’s training is unique because all our courses are computerized, thus participants are always provided with a free take home  Laptop Computer or a  Multi-media Desktop Computer with a DVD/CD Writer Combo, a Printer and an External fax modem (Depending on clients’ choice) which will be useful to them on the job or at home after the training programme.

NATURE OF COURSES
SMIA officers full and tailor-made management training and Development courses, which is a cornerstone to ensuring that all employees possess the necessary skills to meet up with various departmental and organizational goals. Below are some of the services that we offer:

 Short and long off-job trainingv
 Short in-housev training
 Management/ Consultancy servicesv
 Computer training/v services
 Distance Learning Programmesv

METHOD OF SERVICE DELIVERY
1. Lectures using modern facilities
2. Back-up video films and overhead projectors
3. Business simulations
4. Group discussions
5. Seminars & workshops
6. Case studies
7. Lecture manuals

TARGET ORGANISATIONS
1. Government Parastatals and Ministries
2. Small & Medium Scale Organisations
3. Private and Public Sector Personnel’s
4. Non-government organizations ( NGO’s) / Entrepreneurs
5. Energy / Electricity Utilities Organisation
6. International Organisations

COURSE FACILITATORS & CONSULTANTS
Our facilitators/consultants are highly qualified professionals who combine their wealth of professional experiences with academic qualifications to offer client the best training, consultancy services and development programmes.

In addition, seasoned professionals and guest speakers who are currently occupying relevant specialist positions from Africa and overseas are brought in to share their experiences with participants and provide clients with desired results.

SHORT COURSES INCLUDE:

 Computerised financial managementv & auditing
 Bank restructuringv & governance
 Strategic management in the era of privatization, mergev & acquisition
 Computerised project managementv & implementation
 Private financev & Infrastructure development
 Workv & Procurement management
 Strategic management of donor fundedv project
 Public policy analysisv & development
 Senior managementv skills, achieving best performance
 Change managementv & re-engineering
 Organisation restructuringv & transformation management
 International borrowingv & debt management
 Management ofv public finance
 Public sector investment appraisalv
 Cash managementv & Credit vetting
 Improving management Performance in the Publicv & Private Sector
 Public enterprise restructuringv & privatization
 Human capital development for senior managersv
 Competitorv analysis & organizational positioning
 Finance for non-financialv managers
 Riskv & disaster management
 Energy managementv
 Publicv Relations in the Public Service.
 Performance auditingv

COLLABORATION
On this basis SMIA collaborates with its clients in delivering courses that seek to address the above arrears. SMIA continues to identify and respond to our clients needs through on-going situational analysis. Plans are underway to introduce distance learning degrees and postgraduate qualifications with leading international universities and other institution of higher learning in the United Kingdom, Canada, and United States of America (USA).
Currently, Most of our past delegates running MBA programme overseas are been given Exemptions on some courses on the basis of transcript that SMIA provided on request to those institutions.

FOLLOW-UP OF PARTICIPANTS
SMIA maintains a database of all its participants (alumni). It is envisioned that the alumni will use the list –serve on our database and other mechanisms as a forum of sharing information and experiences in their respective fields. SMIA will from time to time approach alumni requesting them to complete questionnaires or write reports regarding the impact of their training with respect to their arrears of daily field of practice.

RESOURCE PERSONS AND FACILITATORS
SMIA draws on the finest brains of top-notch facilitators, who are experts in their fields to pilot our dynamic courses. Our consultants are not only professionals in their fields, but they are active consultants and practitioners in their respective fields with pragmatic application and approach to learning.

Our core resource associates and dedicated facilitators/ consultancy within SADC region and Europe and United States of America (USA) place us on a high competitive advantage in the training and consultancy field.

The institute has an update and revised consultant’s roster of dedicated consultants from government, private and individual freelance facilitators who are central to our programmes.

TAILOR-MADE & OUTREACH TRAINING
SMIA offers tailor-made training courses and workshops in a wide range of disciplines related to management and development. Such workshops or courses are tailored to the needs of the client and can serve to induce, initiate or support organizational change processes to increase specific staff skills and to introduce new work methods, system and procedures to promote team building within the organization.

It is of course also possible to make use of SMIA facilitators to generate tangible and directly visible programmes or project outputs: prepare logical framework in an interactive way with all stakeholders concerned; design a new project, monitoring and evaluation with all project staff, critically assess the underling problem analysis of an ongoing intervention in direct consultation with the beneficiaries or elaborate a new human resource planning and management (HRPM) for your organization. In most cases, these can be offered on-site, or at our Africa headquarter in MBABANE, Swaziland (Southern Africa) whichever arrangement is made.

FLEXIBILITY IN COURSE DATES/SCHEDULE
SMIA entertains a lot of flexibility in its training efforts. We are sensitive to our clients timing constraints, and recognize that our scheduled programme dates may not always fit squarely into staff release for course attendance.

With this in mind our clients are allowed to fix suitable dates that will suit their circumstances. Our dedicated consultants clearly understand this, and are well prepared to re-tune their schedules to meet our client timings. This policy has afforded many people to become part of our alumni.

MILE STONES
 Over the past few years SMIA has realizedv the following: Conducting and sensitization of seminars, courses, conferences and workshops spanning from strategic management to secretarial administration, and agriculture to specialist languages in French. These courses have created sound awareness and support for SMIA programmes among stakeholders including various functionaries of Government.
 Achieved best international delegates’v participation on quality customer service delivery programmes.

GLOBAL VIEW
SMIA seeks to widen its products onto the global front by achieving a much broader participation from beyond the confines of Africa to include Asia, Europe, Latin American countries and the Oceania. The offshoot of this ambitious effort will be short from LONDON-United Kingdom and TORONTO  Canada within the next few months, to allow ample time for logistical planning in terms of resource allocation and budgeting setup formalities.

Strategic Management Institute for Africa (SMIA) is duly registered and incorporated in Swaziland and United Kingdom Under the Business Registration Act for incorporated Companies . By virtue of the authority granted under the power of the act, we are legally and lawfully permitted to conduct capacity building programmes. Which is aimed at improving the knowledge and skills of personnel at all levels, both in the private, public and non-governmental sectors.

SMIA’s mission in this millennium is to be part of the premier training frontier for the delivery of customized and effective training methodologies that are guided by both National and International training policy standards.

SMIA is a training, research and consulting organization to provide Business Communication and Strategic Management development programme aim at improving the knowledge and skills through training courses, workshops and seminars to private, public and Non-governmental sector at all levels.

In the field of Communication, SMIA provides courses and training in public Relations and Customer Management, Communication skills, Public Speaking, Project formulation and Management, Research methodology and Report writing among others  

                        

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