What the CEO Wants You to Know: Building Business Acumen™


Challenge

It’s no secret that executing strategic goals is the greatest challenge in business today. Yet in order to be more effective in achieving the goals of the enterprise, every employee needs a grasp on essential business principles—what’s required to run a business, where his or her job fits into the big picture, and how he or she contributes to the business. Imagine an organization where individual contributors not only focus on the wildly important priorities, they also know what it takes to operate a business successfully.

Solution

A first of its kind, What the CEO Wants You to Know: Building Business Acumen™ workshop helps individual employees understand: 1) the five essential elements of business; 2) how to navigate an annual report, and 3) the strategic thinking behind price/earnings ratio calculations and how initiatives link to the five essential elements of the business.

About the Course
Taught as a one-day, facilitator-led program, What the CEO Wants You to Know: Building Business Acumen helps individuals grasp: 1) how cash is generated and why it’s critical; 2) margin and the importance of making money and being profitable; 3) velocity and the process through which someone can turn inventory or capital; 4) what creates growth and why; 5) why customers buy from some businesses and not from others; 6) the purpose of the annual report and its key components; 7) how the price/earnings ratio is calculated and used; and 8) how to link initiatives to the five essential elements of business.

Length of Training: One-day Workshop

What You Receive

  • What The CEO Wants You to Know: Building Business Acumen™ Guidebook: This guidebook can be used for reference after the workshop.
  • Navigating an Annual Report CD
  • Reference Card

Continuing Education Credits: 6 Contract Hours / 0.6 CEU / 7 CPE

Don't Take Our Word For It

“Total Insight is a skilled and seasoned organization that can set the course with clear strategy and manage crisp execution. They have a collaborative management style. Total Insight understands the importance of consistent quality in a manufacturing environment, and is skilled in teaching the fundamentals needed for an organization to deliver A-1 products day-in and day-out in a lean, cost-effective manner.”

           Ralph Howard, Kitchen & Bath


“Total Insight did an outstanding job of helping us deploy a framework for implementation and accountability into our corporate culture. They are able to speak relevantly to all levels of the organization and garner their buy-in for change. Total Insight is truly outstanding at what they do.”

           Ian Wilson, Hospitality & Recreation

 

 

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