Business Acumen Simulation for Training and Performance Improvement Professionals

GDASTD & ISPM-MI present

Business Acumen Simulation

for Training and Performance Improvement &

HR Professionals

Q. Why do Training, Performance Improvement & HR Professionals need to know about finance and business acumen?

A.  Training, Performance Improvement & HR professionals are key in supporting an organization's financial success. We all need a high level of confidence in knowing how every decision we make affects cash and profit positively and negatively...and to know how to sell our ideas to senior leadership.

LEARN:

• How profit is made and why it is a key indicator of your organization’s success, even in non-profits

• How business finances really work and why you need to know

• How strategic direction affects daily operations, and how you can use this information to positively impact your role as an agent of change
• How to communicate the ROI of your ideas to senior management   

• What you can do to help move the numbers in the right direction and show your senior leaders you know what you are talking about

Agenda:

12:30pm-1:00pm  Light Lunch & Networking

1:00pm - 5:30pm  Program

5:30pm - 6:00pm  Networking

Early Registration - Register on or before September 30th

GDASTD/ISPI Members:  $89

Non-Members: $99
 

Registration Fee After September 30th:

GDASTD/ISPI Members: $109

Non-Members: $119

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Alex Draper, VP of ProfitAbility America, started life as an account manager in the UK 10 years ago.  He worked his way up and across the Atlantic to lead the North American business. As the lead designer and facilitator of the Profitability’s Business Acumen Simulations in N. America, Alex ensures that the lessons of finance and business are reinforced at every step of the learning journey. Join a prestigious group of companies who use their simulations to develop their people: Nestlé, Roche, GKN, IDEX, Azko Nobel, Boston University’s EMBA Program, BorgWarner, GE, London Business School, Timken, Stryker, Speedo, Siemens and many others.

Alex is passionate about leadership development, and is an active member of the Executive Learning Exchange in Chicago.  Check out http://www.profitability.com/us/about/about-profitability