Description
Through our Business Acumen course your participants will improve their judgment and decisiveness skills. Business Acumen is all about seeing the big picture and recognizing that all decisions no matter how small can have an effect on the bottom line. Participants will increase their financial literacy and improve their business sense.
Business Acumen will give your participants an advantage everyone wishes they had. The course will help your participants recognize learning events, manage risk better, and increase their critical thinking. Business Acumen has the ability to influence your whole organization, and provide that additional edge that will lead to success.
Objectives
Module One: Getting Started
Module Two: Seeing the Big Picture
- Short and Long Term Interactions
- Recognize Growth Opportunities
- Mindfulness of Decisions
- Everything is Related
- Case Study
- Review Questions
Module Three: KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators)
- Decisiveness
- Flexible
- Strong Initiative
- Intuitive
- Case Study
- Review Questions
Module Four: Risk Management Strategies
- Continuous Assessment
- Internal and External Factors
- Making Adjustments and Corrections
- Knowing When to Pull the Trigger or Plug
- Case Study
- Review Questions
Module Five: Recognizing Learning Events
- Develop a Sense of Always Learning
- Evaluate Past Decisions
- Problems are Learning Opportunities
- Recognize Your Blind Spots
- Case Study
- Review Questions
Module Six: You Need to Know These Answers and More
- What Makes Money My Company Money?
- What Were Sales Last Year?
- What is our Profit Margin?
- What Were Our Costs?
- Case Study
- Review Questions
Module Seven: Financial Literacy (I)
- Assets
- Financial Ratios
- Liabilities
- Equity
- Case Study
- Review Questions
Module Eight: Financial Literacy (II)
- Income Statement
- Balance Sheet
- Cash Flow Statement
- Read, Read, and Read
- Case Study
- Review Questions
Module Nine: Business Acumen in Management
- Talent Management
- Change Management
- Asset Management
- Organizational Management
- Case Study
- Review Questions
Module Ten: Critical Thinking in Business
- Ask the Right Questions
- Organize Data
- Evaluate the Information
- Make the Decision
- Case Study
- Review Questions
Module Eleven: Key Financial Levers
- Investing in People
- Effective Communication
- Process Improvement
- Goal Alignment
- Case Study
- Review Questions
Certificate
By completing/passing this course, you will attain the certificate eBSI Soft Skills Certificate of Completion
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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FEE REFUNDS POLICY
If, for whatever reason, you are unsatisfied with our service, you have the right to cancel your order within seven days of payment and get a full refund, in accordance with EU regulations with the exception of services that start before this cooling off period. To cancel an order, please send us an email at info@ebsi.ie quoting the Invoice No. you received from eBSI Export Academy, the reason for cancellation and the name of the person who made the transaction.
Following the cooling off period, eBSI Export Academy accepts no obligation to refund any fee (or part fee) paid by a student to the eBSI Export Academy or to a Student who withdraws from the course. A full refund will only be given to all applicants for courses which do not proceed.
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