Business Skills Workshops

Help employees grasp what it takes to run a business.

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 strategy development 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, FranklinCovey’s business strategy development workshop, What the CEO Wants You to Know: Building Business Acumen™, helps individual employees understand:

1. The five essential elements of business.
2. How to navigate an annual report
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 in-person or online 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
8. How to link initiatives to the five essential elements of business.

You Will Learn To:

• Understand the importance of making money and being profitable.
• Apply the process through which you can turn inventory or capital.
• Create growth.
• Understand basics of annual reports and its key components.
• Link initiatives to the five essential elements of business.

What You Receive:

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

Length of Training:

Live – Online:

Three 90-minute webinar workshop sessions:

• Session A: 9:00 am–10:30 am MT
• 1-Hour Break
• Session B: 11:30 am–1:00 pm MT
• 1-Hour Break
• Session C: 2:00 pm –3:30 pm MT

Continuing Education Credits:

6 Contact Hours
.6 CEU
7 CPE

Learn more about continuing education credits

Now all your employees can experience the world-renowned benefits of FranklinCovey training, no matter where they live and work around the globe. FranklinCovey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Fundamentals workshop is now available online. Our high-quality webinar workshops put the high-quality instruction of FranklinCovey in-person training into convenient online workshops. Engaging and interactive, this workshop offers compelling content and award-winning videos and is now available live online as three 90–minute sessions.

Workshop Tuition

• 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

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

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

Delivery Options

• Attend a webinar workshop
• Bring a FranklinCovey consultant to train your organization
• Get certified to teach