Business Acumen

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Business Acumen

Through our Business Acumen workshop 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. Your participants will increase their financial literacy and improve their business sense.

Business Acumen will give your participants an advantage everyone wishes they had. The workshop 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.


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Everything you need to teach a one-day workshop for Business Acumen:

  • Training Manuals
  • PowerPoint Slides
  • Instructor's Guide
  • Quick Reference Job Aids
  • Icebreakers, Activities,
     & Exercise Files
  • Pre-Assignments,
    Pre-/Post-Assessments
  • Promotional Advertorials
  • Lesson Plans with Flip Chart Notes


Also available: training video clips, editable books, audiobook workshops, e-learning, and cloud-based LMS.



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Business Acumen

Module One: Getting Started
  • Housekeeping Items
  • The Parking Lot
  • Workshop Objectives
  • Pre-Assignment
  • Action Plans and Evaluations
Module Two: Seeing the Big Picture
  • Short and Long Term Interactions
  • Recognize Growth Opportunities
  • Mindfulness of Decisions
  • Everything is Related
  • Case Study
  • Module Two: Review Questions
Module Three: KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators)
  • Decisiveness
  • Flexible
  • Strong Initiative
  • Intuitive
  • Case Study
  • Module Three: 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
  • Module Four: 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
  • Module Five: Review Questions
Module Six: 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?
  • Case Study
  • Module Six: Review Questions
                          Module Seven: Financial Literacy (I)
                          • Assets
                          • Financial Ratios
                          • Liabilities
                          • Equity
                          • Case Study
                          • Module Seven: Review Questions
                          Module Eight: Financial Literacy (II)
                          • Income Statement
                          • Balance Sheet
                          • Cash Flow Statement
                          • Read, Read, and Read
                          • Case Study
                          • Module Eight: Review Questions
                          Module Nine: Business Acumen in Management
                          • Talent Management
                          • Change Management
                          • Asset Management
                          • Organizational Management
                          • Case Study
                          • Module Nine: Review Questions
                          Module Ten: Critical Thinking in Business
                          • Ask the Right Questions
                          • Organize the Data
                          • Evaluate the Information
                          • Make the Decision
                          • Case Study
                          • Module Ten: Review Questions
                          Module Eleven: Key Financial Levers
                          • Investing in People
                          • Effective Communication
                          • Process Improvement
                          • Goal Alignment
                          • Case Study
                          • Module Eleven: Review Questions
                          Module Twelve: Wrapping Up
                          • Words from the Wise
                          • Review of Parking Lot
                          • Lessons Learned
                          • Completion of Action Plans and Evaluations

                                                Other Course Kits Available:

                                                1. Accountability in the Workplace
                                                2. Administrative Office Procedures
                                                3. Administrative Support
                                                4. Adult Learning - Mental Skills
                                                5. Adult Learning - Physical Skills
                                                6. Anger Management
                                                7. Appreciative Inquiry
                                                8. Archiving and Records Management
                                                9. Attention Management
                                                10. Basic Bookkeeping
                                                11. Being a Likeable Boss
                                                12. Body Language Basics
                                                13. Budgets and Financial Reports
                                                14. Building Confidence and Assertiveness
                                                15. Business Acumen
                                                16. Business Ethics
                                                17. Business Etiquette
                                                18. Business Succession Planning
                                                19. Business Writing
                                                20. Call Center Training
                                                21. Change Management
                                                22. Civility in the Workplace
                                                23. Coaching and Mentoring
                                                24. Coaching Salespeople
                                                25. Collaborative Business Writing
                                                26. Communication Strategies
                                                27. Conducting Annual Employee Reviews
                                                28. Conflict Resolution
                                                29. Contact Center Training
                                                30. Contract Management
                                                31. Creating a Great Webinar
                                                32. Creative Problem Solving
                                                33. Creativity: Thinking Outside the Box
                                                34. Crisis Management
                                                35. Critical Thinking
                                                36. Customer Service
                                                37. Customer Support
                                                38. Cyber Security
                                                39. Delivering Constructive Criticism
                                                40. Developing a Lunch and Learn
                                                41. Developing Corporate Behavior
                                                42. Developing Creativity
                                                43. Developing Emotional Intelligence
                                                44. Developing New Managers
                                                45. Digital Citizenship
                                                46. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
                                                47. Employee Motivation
                                                48. Employee Onboarding
                                                49. Employee Recruitment
                                                50. Employee Termination Processes
                                                51. Entrepreneurship
                                                52. Event Planning
                                                53. Executive and Personal Assistants
                                                54. Facilitation Skills
                                                55. Generation Gaps
                                                56. Goal Setting and Getting Things Done
                                                57. Handling a Difficult Customer
                                                58. Health and Wellness at Work
                                                59. High Performance Teams Inside the Company
                                                60. High Performance Teams Remote Workforce
                                                61. Hiring Strategies
                                                62. Human Resource Management
                                                63. Improving Mindfulness
                                                64. Improving Self-Awareness
                                                65. In Person Sales
                                                66. Increasing Your Happiness
                                                67. Internet Marketing Fundamentals
                                                68. Interpersonal Skills
                                                69. Job Search Skills
                                                70. Knowledge Management
                                                71. Leadership and Influence
                                                72. Leadership Development for Women
                                                73. Lean Six Sigma
                                                74. Life Coaching Essentials
                                                75. Manager Management
                                                76. Managing Personal Finances
                                                77. Managing Workplace Anxiety
                                                78. Managing Workplace Harassment
                                                79. Marketing Basics
                                                80. Measuring Results From Training
                                                81. Media and Public Relations
                                                82. Meeting Management
                                                83. Middle Manager
                                                84. Millennial Onboarding
                                                85. mLearning Essentials
                                                86. Motivating Your Sales Team
                                                87. Multi-Level Marketing
                                                88. Negotiation Skills
                                                89. Networking Outside the Company
                                                90. Networking Within the Company
                                                91. Office Health and Safety
                                                92. Office Politics For Managers
                                                93. Organizational Skills
                                                94. Overcoming Sales Objections
                                                95. Performance Management
                                                96. Personal Branding
                                                97. Personal Productivity
                                                98. Presentation Skills
                                                99. Project Management
                                                100. Proposal Writing
                                                101. Prospecting and Lead Generation
                                                102. Public Speaking
                                                103. Recognizing Employee Excellence
                                                104. Respect in the Workplace
                                                105. Responsibility in the Workplace
                                                106. Risk Assessment and Management
                                                107. Safety in the Workplace
                                                108. Sales Fundamentals
                                                109. Self-Leadership
                                                110. Sensitivity Training
                                                111. Servant Leadership
                                                112. Social Intelligence
                                                113. Social Learning
                                                114. Social Media In The Workplace
                                                115. Social Media Marketing
                                                116. Stress Management
                                                117. Supervising Others
                                                118. Supply Chain Management
                                                119. Taking Initiative
                                                120. Talent Management
                                                121. Team Building For Managers
                                                122. Team Building Through Chemistry
                                                123. Teamwork and Team Building
                                                124. Telephone Etiquette
                                                125. Telework And Telecommuting
                                                126. Ten Soft Skills You Need
                                                127. The Cloud and Business
                                                128. Time Management
                                                129. Top 10 Sales Secrets
                                                130. Trade Show Staff Training
                                                131. Train-The-Trainer
                                                132. Trust Building and Resilience Development
                                                133. Unconscious Bias
                                                134. Universal Safety Practices
                                                135. Virtual Team Building and Management
                                                136. Work-Life Balance
                                                137. Workplace Bullying
                                                138. Workplace Harassment
                                                139. Workplace Violence