LEARN ABOUT HOW TO TRANSLATE STRATEGY INTO ACTION

To step beyond the traditional accounting role Finance Professionals need to understand the "strategy to action journey" - how your organization can sustain great performance in a climate where change, internally and externally, is the only constant.

This powerful stage-setting seminar will reconnect you with the performance potential within your organization and set the foundation for the journey to success by creating a common language and framework for making strategy simple.

As a strategic operations-focused business partner you need to understand the six critical levers managers should be using to bring processes, people and financial information together to deliver exceptional results. Learn what these six levers are and how your organization can use them to action and deliver strategy.

During these two days with Paul Sharman you’ll find out how to excel in the new environment by helping operational leaders use the six levers to identify what they are doing well (and reinforce it), and uncover the opportunities they should be seizing to ensure a holistic, value-added approach.

SEMINAR OUTLINE

DAY 1

Morning session

• Performance Success: What separates the Best from the Rest?
• The Importance Of Vision.
• Dealing with Challenges: The Fish Tank Syndrome.
• The Six-Lever Map For Success.
• Strategy Made Simple.

Afternoon session

• Lever 1: Managing Performance
  • Understanding your organization as an adaptive system.
  • Using the Performance Architecture.
  • Process improvement: understanding how strategy gets executed.
  • Recognizing and exploiting key process hot spots.
• Lever 2: Measuring What Matters
  • Focusing people on what’s important.
  • Ensuring an effective balance of measures.
  • Using measures to connect people with strategy.

DAY 2

Morning session

• Lever 3: Getting The Numbers Right
  • Ensuring financial data helps people make better decisions.
  • Understanding what you spend, how you spend it and who/what you spend it on.
  • Financial data as the key linking mechanism between operations and strategy.
• Lever 4: Helping People Succeed
  • Viewing jobs as mini-processes.
  • Understanding the conditions necessary for great performance and managing those conditions.
  • Accountability and measurement.

Afternoon session

• Lever 5: Monitoring and Controlling
  • Using a planning process that adds value.
  • Budgeting that’s interactive, flexible and realistic.
  • Harnessing the power of technology.
• Lever 6: Rapid Response
  • "Shift Happens", see the opportunities.
  • Rapid response processes.
  • Understanding what’s important in the environment and what’s a distraction.
  • Your Keep, Stop and Start Action Plan.

Field of Study: Managerial Finance & Accounting Professionals   
Prerequisites: None
Experience Level: Overview
Teaching Method: Lecture, Discussion, and Case Study

Please E-mail us for seminar dates and locations.
This workshop is also available In-House.

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And, in our view - the 5 key reasons you should attend this workshop are...

1. It does not focus on software

No more than 45 minutes is dedicated to discussing software options on the second day. We have positioned the course to teach you what you need to know BEFORE you buy software, and we take an objective view of which software is best for you.

2. It shows you how to analyze results

What good is a fancy report if doesn't help improve the performance of the organization? Why bring in a bunch of consultants to do it for you, if you can't understand how the information was derived, whether it's right or not and how to do further queries?

To see an example of the type of reports you can produce - Click Here

3. It draws on real-life implementations

This workshop is led by Focused Management Inc. (FMI), who have implemented more live ABC projects than any other consulting group. Running through the workshop are constant references to client examples drawn from service, manufacturing, process and public sector organizations.

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4. It tells you, step-by-step how to do it

Through in-depth case study application and small discussion groups, this workshop follows implementation plans, which apply equally to service, health, government, education and manufacturing examples.

5. It could be the first step on the path to implementation

If you have a pilot project in place and don't know where to go from there, or an earlier project that never got off the ground, this workshop helps you understand what didn't work and how to get back on track to make information useful across the organization.

• Teams of management and analytical staff responsible for managing costs
• Vice Presidents of Finance and Operations · Controllers and Operations Managers
• Process Managers / Owners · Team Leaders · Process Improvement Leaders
• Strategic Planners · All Accountants

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Please E-mail us for additional seminar dates and locations. This workshop is also available In-House