Business Acumen Training

Business Acumen Training

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  • Fast track learning through discovery learning methods
  • Strengthen leadership and decision making
  • Train staff to understand your financial drivers
  • Gain alignment to company strategic objectives

Employees with business acumen understand:

  • How profitability is driven
  • How assets are used
  • How cash is generated
  • How new strategies impact financial success
  • Where they ‘fit’ into the achievement of company goals

Zodiak® : The Game of Business Finance & Strategy

Business Acumen Training for Managers, Leaders & Employees

Companies in all business sectors are faced with tough decisions about processes, people, product development, asset management, capital investment and much more.  Every day the actions and decisions of your managers and employees impact business success.  Zodiak® trains your staff to understand your financial drivers, align to company strategic objectives and ‘get’ the connection between strategy and financial success, resulting in strengthened decision making and business acumen.

A Powerful Learning Experience

Zodiak® is a sophisticated business simulation in the form of an engaging and interactive board game. And according to more than one million players worldwide, in a variety of industry and service organisations including many global Fortune 500 leaders, the Zodiak learning experience is transformational.

Learning the ‘Business of the BusinesS’ Through Discovery

Research and experience both prove that classroom based simulations and business games can build business acumen more quickly and more effectively than traditional learning methods. Thus Zodiak’s discovery learning methodology provides a fast track for companies wanting to improve the business acumen of their workforce quickly and with ease.

One day learning program

Phalanx Learning immerses participants in the world of business by making them the new owners of Zodiak – an underperforming $40 million company. Throughout the course of the simulation participants handle chance events, answer to shareholders and investors, and make tough strategic decisions bringing terms like cash flow, ROE, working capital, COGS and assets vividly to life.  Learners embrace new insights, not just about how the numbers work but also about the consequences of business decisions and actions on financial success.

Throughout the simulation, Connections exercises are used to bridge the learning from the Zodiak® game to your own organisation.  It’s here that learners connect how their own behaviours  – impact the bottom line.

Learning Outcomes

  • Complete and interpret Financial Statements;
  • Explain the differences between Cash and Profit;
  • Understand key financial measures and ratios;
  • Describe how various strategies impact fiancial success; and
  • Develop communication and alignment across business units.

To find out more contact Phalanx Learning TODAY - 1300 731 245 or send us an email.

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