Develop the best strategic plans to support your company’s goals and future growth. Step into a new leadership role by discovering your unique leadership style to build a productive and motivated team.
Module 1 (3 Days)
Business Strategy & Planning for Managers
Key Competencies
- Strategic planning
- Strategic alignment
- Understanding mega patterns
- Strategy & finance
- Business planning
- Risk management
Learn, Practice and Use
- Identify strategic planning issues in order to develop a unique competitive advantage
- Learn key analytical and conceptual approaches
- Align your organization with your strategic planning goals by integrating strategy, objectives, metrics, and performance
- Identify evolving strategic patterns and generate ideas
- Incorporate customer needs into your strategic planning
- Use a case study to examine the strategic planning process in detail
- Recognize how the actions of customers, competitors, and your own company determine the outcomes in your markets
- Determine the best approach to effectively implement your strategic planning
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Solving Real Workplace Communication Issues
- Recognize the role of communicating in developing influence and improved productivity
- Identify your specific workplace up/down/across communication challenges as focal points
Putting the Best “You” Forward
- Exhibit a strong sense of confidence and external image
- Create and maintain credibility and trust with others
- Apply strategies to build and use rapport with colleagues
Targeting your Message to the Audience
- Analyse the audience to create messages that address listeners’ specific needs
- Assess and speak to others’ organizational positions, roles, and responsibilities
- Create multidimensional messages that speak to both the mind and the heart of listeners
Targeting your Message to the Situation
- Identify the best uses of various forms of communication technologies
- Choose the most appropriate communication channel to be effective in various work situations
- Assess and plan effective messaging in teams and groups when up, down, and across members are all present
Framing the Message
- Apply message framing strategies to create an open and responsive communication environment
- Assess influencing preferences and situational needs to impact personal persuasive ability
- Practice skills for delivering messages that promote clear and productive communication
Motivating and Influencing Throughout the Organization
- Build productivity by applying up, down, and across motivational communication strategies
- Evaluate and practice various motivational, informative, and influencing presentation formats
Module 2 (2 Days)
Preparing for Leadership
Key Competencies
- Motivating your team
- Becoming a great leader
- Planning your role as a leader
- Building relationships
- Managing organizational politics
Learn, Practice and Use
- Understand what a leader is…and is not
- Discover your own unique leadership style and project a more dynamic image
- Determine which leadership attributes you already possess
- Apply lessons learned through leadership training to take on your first leadership position with greater confidence
- Get noticed by learning how to look and talk like a leader
- Find out what people expect and respect in a leader
- Apply lessons learned through leadership training to refine your skills in gaining and using power and influence positively
- Learn how to motivate a team, including “difficult people”
- Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE’s highly experienced faculty
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Basic Accounting Concepts
- The Importance of the Accounting Equation
- The Accrual Process
- The Difference Between Accounting Profit and Cash Flow
Understanding Financial Statements
- Understand the Purpose of and Terminology Associated with the Following Financial Statements
- Income Statement or Profit and Loss Statement (P&L):
- Balance Sheet
- Statement of Retained Earnings
- Cash Flow Statement
- Prepare a Set of Simple Financial Statements
- Understand the Accounting Process, from the Recording of Business Transactions to the Preparation of Financial Statements
- Understand How Various Business Transactions Affect the Financial Statements
Reviewing an Annual Report
- Various Components of an Annual Report
- Importance of Notes in Evaluating Financial Statements
- External Auditor’s Role and the Significance of the Opinion Letter
Evaluating a Company’s Financial Statements
- Calculate the Key Financial Ratios Using the Financial Statements
- Use Financial Ratios to Evaluate:
- An Organization’s Liquidity, Leverage and Profitability
- The Performance of an Organization as Compared to Its Competitors’
- An Organization’s Performance Compared with Budgeted Goals
- Identify Sources of Financial Information Beyond the Financial Statements
- Use the Dupont Formula to Evaluate Management Performance
- Use the Concept of Economic Value Added (EVA(R)) and Cash Flow Return on Investment (CFROI) to Determine if a Segment of an Organization Is Adding Value to the Business
Improving Profitability Through Cost Analysis and Profit Planning
- Differentiate Between Fixed and Variable Costs
- Help Your Organization Improve Profitability Through the Use of:
- Break-Even Analysis
- Contribution Margin Analysis
- Direct Costing in Appropriate
- Understand Traditional Cost Accounting and Its Limitations
- Understand the Relevance of Activity-Based Costing in Today’s Business Environment
Capital Expenditure Analysis
- Distinguish Between Capital Expenditure Budgets and Operating Budgets and Understand the Function of the Capital Budget
- Understand Why Cash Has a Time Value
- Recognize and Apply Different Methods of Evaluating Capital Expenditure and Monitoring Project Performance
Budgeting More Effectively
- Understand the Role of Budgeting and Issues That Budgets Can Solve
- Understand the Budgeting Process
- Identify Different Types of Budgeting Systems in Use Today
- Analyze Budgets for Different Purposes
- Recognize and Apply Different Methods of Evaluating and Monitoring Operating Performance
Dates & Locations
12 Jun – 16 Jun (Barcelona)
24 Jul – 28 Jul (London)
25 Sep – 28 Sep (Frankfurt)
27 Nov – 1 Dec (London)
Duration
5 Day(s)
Price
€3995