Business Acumen | The Corporate Training School

Description

Through our Business Acumen Course, you will improve your 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. You will increase your financial literacy and improve your business sense.

Business Acumen will give you an advantage everyone wishes they had. The course will help you to recognize learning events, manage risk better, and increase your critical thinking. Business Acumen has the ability to influence your whole organization, and provide that additional edge that will lead to success.

Course Curriculum

Introduction
- Course Objectives ..
Module 1
- Seeing the Big Picture ..
- Short and Long Term Interactions ..
- Recognize Growth Opportunities ..
- Mindfulness of Decisions ..
- Everything is Related ..
- Knowledge Check ..
Module 2
- KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) ..
- Decisiveness ..
- Flexible ..
- Strong Initiative ..
- Being Intuitive ..
- Knowledge Check ..
Module 3
- Risk Management Strategies ..
- Continuous Assessment ..
- Internal and External Factors ..
- Making Adjustments and Corrections ..
- Knowing When to Pull the Trigger or Plug ..
- Knowledge Check ..
Module 4
- Recognizing Learning Events ..
- Develop a Sense of Always Learning ..
- Evaluate Past Decisions ..
- Problems Are Learning Opportunities ..
- Recognize Your Blind Spots ..
- Knowledge Check ..
Module 5
- You Need to Know These Answers and More ..
- What Makes My Company Money? ..
- What Were Sales Last Year? ..
- What is Our Profit Margin? ..
- What Were Our Costs? ..
- Knowledge Check ..
Module 6
- Financial Literacy (I) ..
- Assets ..
- Financial Ratios ..
- Liabilities ..
- Equity ..
- Knowledge Check ..
Module 7
- Financial Literacy (II) ..
- Income Statement ..
- Balance Sheet ..
- Cash Flow Statement ..
- Read, Read, and Read ..
- Knowledge Check ..
Module 8
- Business Acumen in Management ..
- Talent Management ..
- Change Management ..
- Asset Management ..
- Organizational Management ..
- Knowledge Check ..
Module 9
- Critical Thinking in Business ..
- Ask the Right Questions ..
- Organize Data ..
- Evaluate the Information ..
- Make the Decision ..
- Knowledge Check ..
Module 10
- Key Financial Levers ..
- Investing in People ..
- Effective Communication ..
- Process Improvement ..
- Goal Alignment ..
- Knowledge Check ..
Assessment
- Post Test ..