Welcome to the Centre for Business Dynamics, the commercial unit of the Business School.

The Centre for Business Dynamics will help you and your
company to stay competitive by bridging the gap between your existing skills and competencies and those required. We will make it our priority that you meet the challenges and opportunities presented, distinguish yourself from your competitors, and achieve higher performance.

Our large portfolio of products and services, coupled with a network of national and international experts, enable us to offer tailor-made, state-of-the-art organisational and personal development solutions. From customised short courses,
workshops and consultations, to strategy and leadership development – we have it all. Make the call today and start investing in your success and the fulfillment of your dreams.

 The general OBJECTIVES of the Centre include the following:

• To help companies and individuals stay competitive by bridging the gap between existing skills and competencies in their working environment, and those required.
  
• To help the business sector in general to face the challenges of radical innovation and change by making their human capital and business models revolution ready.

The Centre for Business Dynamics, as commercial unit of the School, was founded in January 2004 and offers generic certificate programme such as the MDP (Management Development Programme) and MPP (Management Preparation Programme), tailor-made MDPs for several companies, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Tax Strategy and Management, and in-house customised short learning programme. We have a Black Economic Empowerment Unit that runs various BEE related executive programmes as well as a MDP in BEE. We also offer a High Performing Directors and Governance Programme. The Centre is also in partnership with the Arbinger Institute in the US and offers “The Choice” (Leadership & Self-Deception) and“World Class Leadership” training in SA. The Centre is also establishing itself as a leader in ways to preserve, manage and preserve institutional memory.

Lastly, but not least, we also offer three very unique leadership programmes – ‘Leadership is the connection economy’, ‘Creating leadership and personal capacity in women’ and ‘Leading: a programme for Executives’. We were the first institution in the country to offer a leadership programme dedicated to women and the success of the programme is evident in the number of institutions and organisations in the country that enrolled students.

“Bigger isn’t always better, but smaller is often smarter”

Mission
The mission of the Centre for Business Dynamics is to offer customised training and development solutions of the highest quality and relevance, in order to ensure that the skills and competencies of companies and individuals is up to date and that they can cope effectively with the radical innovation and change in their environments, thereby enhancing their ability to achieve success.

Vision
The vision of the Centre is to make a world-class contribution towards the future performance and competitiveness of the business sector in South Africa.

What will you get in our products and services?

• Relevance: Developed in South Africa for South Africans
• Result-focused training
• Quality: Cutting edge training methodology
• The highest quality training material
• Flexibility
• Customised programmes
• Compliance: NQF accredited training
• Excellent trainers/experts

It is also important to note that many of our short courses count credits towards some of the formal qualifications within the School of Management (specific Certificate and Degree programmes).

Our courseware and training programmes are thus

• custom designed for our clients;
• NQF (Skills Development Act) aligned;
• CHE accredited;
• based on active participation, critical thinking and problem solving by learners;
• underpinned by sound assessment activities, and;
• supported by user-friendly trainer’s guides.

Danie Jacobs completed his B.Soc.Sc, B.Soc.Sc (Honns), M.Soc.Sc, M.Ed, and MBA degrees at the University of the Free State. He founded the Centre for Business Dynamics, commercial unit of the Business School at the University of the Free State and also started ILSC (Pty) Ltd, a consulting firm, that specialises in strategic positioning of business models and change management. Danie acts as organisational change and strategic positioning facilitator at various companies and public sector institutions. He also lecturs ‘Leading Innovation and Change’ within the MBA programme.

Danie Jacobs Head: Centre for Business Dynamics

Ansie Barnard
Executive Head of Sales

Tel: (051)401 3204
Fax: (051)401 3195
Cell: 082 900 1080
Email: BarnardAM@ufs.ac.za