BUILDING BUSINESS ACUMEN™

Do your employees know how they impact your bottom line?

Today’s modern employees are increasingly specialized in order to have the greatest impact. But that often means they don’t see how the whole organization runs, and how their role affects the bottom line.

Building Business Acumen is based on the book What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram Charan. Drawn from his years of experience working with Fortune 100 CEOs, the course provides employees with C-level insights of how an organization runs so they can align their efforts to your business goals and maximize your bottom line.

Step back and get a total picture of the business. As you cut through the complexity, you will get a clear fix on what is happening in the real world.

— Ram Charan

Course Details

Five Essential Elements of Business

  • Understand how cash is generated and why it’s critical.
  • Understand margin and the importance of making money and being profitable.
  • Understand velocity and the process through which you can turn inventory or capital.
  • Understand what creates growth and why.
  • Understand the simple reasons customers buy from some businesses and not from others.

Navigating an Annual Report

  • Understand what the purpose of the annual report is.
  • Understand the key components of this report.

Strategic Thinking

  • Lean how the price/earnings ratio is calculated and used.
  • Link initiatives to the five essential elements of business.

The FranklinCovey All Access Pass allows you to expand your reach, achieve your business objectives, and sustainably impact performance.

It provides access to a vast library of FranklinCovey content, including assessments, training courses, tools, and resources available live in-person, live online, and On Demand.

Public Program

  • Training sessions whereby participants are from multiple organizations but in the same class.
  • You can enroll your employees in a live in-person or live online public workshop.

In-house Training

  • Exclusive training for your organization with standard content or tailored content to fit your needs in a live in-person or live online inhouse training.

Client Certification

  • For organizations seeking cost-effective ways to implement solutions involving large populations of managers and frontline workers, FranklinCovey certifies on-site client facilitators to teach our content and adapt it to their organization’s needs.

FranklinCovey's All Access Pass

  • The AAP gives access to a library of FranklinCovey solutions complete with assessments, solutions, tools and resources. Click here to know more about AAP.
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