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What is Business Acumen Training?
Effective business acumen training will expose learners to balance sheets, income statements, financial metrics, cash flow and the basics of overall business strategy. Ideally, this training is done in an environment that allows individuals to learn new concepts and immediately test these new business acumen skills in a risk-free environment.
Sara Wolski Hopkins Receives 2019 Workforce Game Changer Award
Sara Wolski Hopkins of Paradigm Learning receives 2019 Workforce Game Changer Aw...
Training with SPACER and Maintaining Engagement
Have you ever used a SPACER to kick off a meeting? A SPACER is widely considered...
Spreading Business Acumen in Honor of Financial Literacy Month
In 2010, during the Great Recession following the housing crash, President Obama...
Budgeting Through a Business Acumen Lens
Do you define “budget” the same way as Merriam-Webster’s dictionary? A statem...
The Evolution of Business Acumen Training
"Numbers tell a story and there’s always a story behind the numbers." - Robb Gom...
7 Signs of a Micromanager
In a previous column, Want a More Productive Team? Empower Them, we explored the...
Want a More Productive Team? Empower Them
If you want something done right, then… do it yourself! We’ve all heard that ma...
6 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your End of Year Events
It’s that time of year again. (No, not the holidays.) It’s strategic planning se...
How to Manage Growth, Change and Challenges with Strategic Alignment
Every organization is faced with the challenges associated with growth and chang...
Does Your Team Agree Too Much?
It’s long been the bastion of corporate teamwork; building a cohesive, agreeable...
4 Reasons Salespeople Benefit from Business Acumen Simulations
1. Salespeople are competitive. Salespeople are fueled by competitive spirit, w...
8 Learning Concepts That You Should Know
Recently, we published 30 Learning and Development Terms Every L&D Professional...
When Revenue Goes Wrong - A Quick Business Acumen Riddle
A salesperson at a company led the entire division in sales three years in a row...
30 Training and Development Terms Every L&D Professional Needs to Know
Every industry has its jargon and we wanted to help demystify ours a bit. We’ve...
7 Tips for Planning Your 2019 Learning and Development Strategy
With Q4 underway and the end of the calendar year in sight, many organizations h...
8 Steps to Change Your Organization’s Culture, Message and Purpose
It's hard to imagine condensing this kind of sweeping change into eight steps wi...
4 Counterproductive Learning and Development Myths
Over time, smart people have made observations that allow us to understand the w...