Master Business Acumen
and make your career &
your business FLY!
Build your financial
know-how
Use it in
your own role in business
Get Better
Business Results
How Much is
What you Don't Know
Costing You?
Most managers and many executives have never learnt much about finance, so they are confused by the financial jargon used by senior leaders, feel embarrassed to admit it, and struggle to contribute to financial results. When you understand the principles, the jargon,
and how the numbers work in your own business, you can
boost your competence:
Think more clearly
Make decisions easily
Communicate with power
Improve business results
Raise your status
Increase your confidence
Business Finance is not difficult to understand, but most people have never had a chance to learn it. Short courses on "Finance for Non-Financial Managers" flood you with information that is never personalised, and soon forgotten. Long courses take huge investments of time and money, but often have the same results.
What I have developed is a series of practical learning
experiences, spread over a few weeks, that allow you to take each piece of financial understanding and make it personal. You can see how it affects your business, and your role, and what you can do to make a difference. And I give one-to-one coaching sessions to take it deeper and ensure nothing is missed.
In a short time, you can build your financial competence to executive level, even if you are starting from near zero.
Most business managers never achieve clarity on finance, which is why they are stuck with poor results, poor communication, decision paralysis, high stress, the impostor syndrome, huge workloads, and poor work-life balance.
Take the First Step to gaining Clarity and Control!
How Will Your Life Change When You
Master Business Acumen?
Clarity about Business Success
Imagine what it feels like to know exactly what is needed, for the business to execute its strategy and achieve stellar results:
More profit, clear understanding of the financial implications of every decision, no surprises with cash flow or investments, constructive discussions with the leaders and financial experts, whatever your function in the business.
Compelling business cases
Getting your ideas accepted and funded depends on talking the language of the powerful; and that is financial language. It's not just the jargon; you need to understand the principles behind the jargon, the way the business functions as a system, and the multiple effects that a change will have. That's not hard to learn, but many people have never had the chance.
Once you realise what the big levers are that control your profit, sales, and cash flow, you can take more control. You can put your effort into the things that make the biggest difference, and get way better results.
As long as "all that financial mumbo jumbo" leaves you confused or unclear, life is just a guessing game.
More satisfying work, and a more balanced life
More of what you want...
Clarity on financial issues gives you more Peace of Mind, Growth, Value Creation ...
Less of what you don't...
Confusion, Imposter Syndrome, Pressure, Stress, Stagnation, Feeling Stuck!
3 Things that make it easy to
Master Business Acumen:
1
A Business Game
My business game gives you control of a business, and has you making business decisions (which product, how much to make, how to price, how much credit to give etc.) so you learn from accelerated real experience how things work.
2
Practical exercises
Change one number, and see how that affects the whole business. Practical hands-on exercises that teach you how to improve profit, manage cash, decide when to invest in things, and how to build value in your business.
3
1-to-1 Coaching
Most people need help to apply new learning to their personal situation, and that is best done one to one. We discuss how you can use the ideas, what numbers to watch to control the business, how best to make the business do what you want it to.
Managing your function can easily take all your time, all your energy and attention, and leave you wishing for better communication, more collaboration, and effective change. Here is how to transform that experience once and for all:
An established business creates daily opportunities to improve efficiency, raise customer satisfaction, make a better working environment for the staff, innovate, and create more value for both shareholders and all the other stakeholders.
It also brings a constant stream of challenges that require decisions:
Should we hire more staff?
How should we price the new product?
How can I get this project funded?
Is it worth investing in new capabilities or equipment to take us further?
Once you really understand the financial side of your business, these questions are far easier to answer. It takes out much of the guesswork, gives you a rational basis for action, and helps you learn much faster from what you do.
That makes it far easier to make many decisions, and to avoid common mistakes where your decision helps your function, but at the expense of the company as a whole.
You will also find a complete absence of the Imposter syndrome; you will understand 90%+ of the jargon being used in any meeting, and can fearlessly ask for clarification of anything that is not clear, knowing that you can make sense of the answer. This puts you in a great position to discuss the things that really matter, with the people in power who hold the purse strings. If you want a seat at the table, you have to talk the language fluently, and I can get you there.
I have taught thousands of managers in the world's largest companies, to understand business finance, to make better decisions, and to take control of their results. You can learn the hard way, by trying to figure it all out yourself; or you can take years of the learning curve by working with me.
I help people like you to fully understand what makes a business profitable, what drives the cashflow, and how you can make the most valuable contribution to it. It all comes down to understanding a few processes that are common to every business, and making that learning personal to your own business and your own position. None of it is rocket science, but not much of it is intuitive which is why so many business people struggle with financial understanding.
Business finance needs very simple arithmetic (no complicated maths) and knowing the right numbers to work with. Everyone can master it, with the right introduction. And it completely changes the way you see the business, and gives you clarity about what will make a difference to the results.
Here's what to do next:
Watch the short video (if you have not already). It gives you an overview of how I work.
Set a time to talk to me. We can discuss where you are in your business life, what your aspirations are, what you already know about business, and how best to learn anything more that you need. If it turns out that working with me is a good fit, we can make a plan for that. If not, I will do all I can to help you find the help that best fits your needs. I learn from every one of these conversations, so I am happy to give an hour of my time to anyone who is seriously interested in improving their business acumen, or wanting to improve business results.
You can book an hour with me here.
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