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Business Acumen

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Business Acumen

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This course is available as a private group session or 1-on-1 training only. Enquire today to learn more!

Location: Training can be delivered at our Perth CBD training centre, at your site or virtually for added convenience
Duration: 1 Day

Our Perth CBD venue is easy to access by public transport.

Course Overview

Course Overview

In this one-day Business Acumen course, you will gain practical skills to better understand financial performance, business strategy and organisational success. Learn how value is created, what drives results and how your decisions impact the bottom line, helping you contribute with greater confidence and commercial awareness in your workplace.

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Course Information

Course Content

Whether you work in the corporate, SME, government or not-for-profit sector, every organisation needs to create value. This course will help you to see the big picture, contribute to business effectiveness and value creation, and understand how your actions impact on the bottom line.

Introduction

  • Course and personal objectives
  • What’s your organisation’s ‘why’?
  • The concept of value

Seeing the bigger picture

  • What business are you in?
  • What does success look like?
  • The balanced scorecard model
  • How to manage risk
  • How to maximise opportunities
  • Balancing risk and reward

Numbers matter

  • Assets and liabilities
  • Profit and loss
  • Cash flow
  • Numbers talk – interpreting financial and performance metrics

Maintaining and boosting organisational performance

  • Time is money!
  • Long term goals, short term objectives, everyday actions
  • Making smart business and operational decisions
  • Operational efficiency: getting the best out of your resources, assets and systems
  • Continuous improvement

Putting it into practice

  • Action planning
  • Recognise the key business drivers for your organisation
  • See the big picture for their own and other organisations
  • Understand how value is created, and your role in this process
  • Understand risk and the process of risk management
  • Apply the balanced scorecard model
  • Develop a working knowledge of financial teams and metrics
  • Align work priorities and actions with key business priorities

This course has no pre-requisites.

“This training will help me to be more considered and holistic in my day-to-day decision making. Thank you, Rambo for your facilitation, including how you made it relevant to our work at Serco FSH, and for your positive engagement.” – Gavin from SERCO

“The trainer had excellent knowledge of the subject and made me feel confident applying my skills” – Gerald from Serco

“The best feature of this course was the finance section” – Jane from Serco

“The best of this course was the presenter, who was very knowledgeable and great at answering questions” – Tom from Serco

“Session was well presented” – Amber from Serco

“The best part of this course was being in a room with people of the same interest in business” – Mitchell from SBDC

“I enjoyed the collaborative approach” – Mia from SBDC

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