FMS is a 12 week course that includes a 3 day compulsory residential.

The course is an academically-grounded orientation to the AGSM MBA (Executive) program. It is intended to provide a cohort experience and to help students acquire a range of useful strategies and skills for enhancing their managerial effectiveness, as well as for engaging productively with the MBA(Executive) course concepts and their colleagues throughout their program. The three themes addressed are managing your learning, learning together, and managerial skill development.

Learning in this course occurs through a combination of mindful engagement with reading course materials and assigned articles, completing written exercises, self-assessments, repeated 360 degree feedback, peer coaching, team-based case analysis, skill development planning, and action learning.