Advanced Workshops
For executives and corporate leaders, it’s vital to ensure that your emerging leaders and managers can apply the business acumen skills learned in the Business Acumen Workshop. Our advanced workshops offer “next level” business proficiency that deeply embeds key business practices into the organization.
Advanced Workshop – Developing Effective Business Cases
Shouldn’t all business investments provide a positive return? Of course, they should. However, when we look at the intended impact of business cases, the results aren’t always as planned. Why? Often, the data or fact base on which the business case is created is not verified or valid. Or perhaps cross-functional support was lacking.
The practice involved in creating business cases can be more deeply embedded into the genetics of the firm if people understand what’s to be done and how. Whether it’s for a major capital investment, a market expansion program, or a new product innovation, this business case workshop can help.
The business case program consists of a 2-day comprehensive workshop and an optional 6-8 week work project in which participating teams are asked to develop their complete business case. The work projects are individually guided by one of our expert facilitators via online coaching sessions, and the program culminates in an onsite (or virtual) report-out of the completed presentations. Success is more easily assured with a designated, empowered team with the right mix of company knowledge, functional expertise, and a ready-to-achieve mindset.
The companion resource for the business case program is the mini-book, How to Create a Business Case.
Advanced Workshop – Developing Actionable Business Strategies
For any manager, leader, or leader of leaders, formulating and executing on a solid strategy will always offer opportunities and present challenges. Today’s corporations require strategic-thinking businesspeople who have the requisite business acumen to gather customer and market insights, assess past and present business performance, and recalibrate resources to maintain or gain competitive advantage – all while influencing others who are needed to drive the business into the future.
The practice involved in formulating strategies can be more deeply embedded into the fabric of the firm if people understand what’s to be done and how. Whether it’s at the company level, business unit level, or even at the product level, all strategies are formulated the same way: through a review of the past and present data, the synthesis of data, and a portrayal of vision, goals, strategic initiatives, and metrics.
This strategic planning program consists of a 2-day comprehensive workshop and an optional 6-8 week work project in which participating teams are asked to develop their strategy presentations. One of our expert facilitators individually guides the work projects via online coaching sessions. The program culminates in an onsite (or virtual) report-out of the completed presentations. Success is more easily assured with a designated, empowered team with the right mix of company knowledge, functional expertise, and a ready-to-achieve mindset.
The companion resource for the business case program is the mini-book, How to Create a Winning Strategy.
Advanced Business Acumen Workshop (coming Q2 2023)
For those who have experienced our foundational Business Acumen Workshop, or for leaders who have the foundational skills associated with business acumen, our Advanced Business Acumen Workshop is for you. This two-day program offers deeper study of leadership, process management, product management, financial management, strategic planning, and business performance analysis. It can be customized for any company to reflect its goals for the development of upper-level managers and leaders.
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