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Business Acumen

Make decisions based on your understanding of how your business makes money, connect your decision with results and help those around you to perform more effectively. Improve your skills to make effective, high-impact decisions and make a more significant contribution to your organization’s financial success.

  • Think and act like the owner
  • Take action to improve profits and deliver value to your organization
  • Incorporate key performance indicators important to your customers, owners and employees
  • Lead your team in implementing your company’s strategies
  • Create a customer centric awareness with your group—and act on it
  • Evaluate the impact of pricing your products on customer groups, sales and profitability
  • Coordinate the multiple internal and external demands on time and resources

Courses

Acumen in Action

Take control of a $100 million company in a simulated five-year, increasingly complex business environment to see how simple business decisions can cascade through organizations and markets, bringing huge successes as well as corporate catastrophes.

Business Acumen and Strategy for Managers

“Jump start” the business acumen skills necessary for you to move up in your organization—this course will help you understand the vision of your organization so you can create effective execution and communication plans for your team.

Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Executives

You’ll return to your company with a solid base of knowledge about financial statements and concepts so you’ll know the right kinds of questions to ask to accomplish your department’s and company’s goals.

Financial Management for Non-Financial Insurance Executives

Specifically designed for insurance managers who do not have background in finance, this course will take you beyond intimidating financial terms, giving you the tools to discover what the numbers really mean…and how to use them to your advantage.

Financial Management for the Health Care Professional

This interactive data-analysis learning experience combines lively discussion, case studies and hands-on practice with the expertise of discussion leaders who know the ins and outs of financially managing medical practices.

Strategic Cost Analysis and Decision Making

80% of your revenue comes from 20% of your customers or product lines…but what does that really mean to your bottom line? This course delivers skills and tools you need to discover the keys to success that are hidden in your company’s financial data.