Commercial Acumen & Awareness Training

Developing your commercial mindset using practical skills and action-driving tools that will influence your organisation’s success.

Course overview

Business and commercial acumen training that provides the tools, application and confidence to succeed.

Commercial awareness is much greater than solely the ability to use core financial skills and principles. Whilst these are critical, being truly commercial means being able to use and assess the impact of a wider range of important dynamics that support the most effective decision-making.

You will learn practical techniques and apply them during the workshop to real business decisions as well as to you and your team, developing a true commercial mindset. Your wider business and commercial awareness will be expanded through taking a step away from your own business environment to look at other organisations who are already achieving top-level success.

You will leave this training course with both business and commercial acumen skills plus a clear action plan to drive towards your goals.

Course Content

What will you learn?

  • What is commercial acumen? The nine components of a truly commercial mindset that should be assessed for every commercial decision.
  • Real-life examples of where a commercial mindset has been applied well and case studies of where not applying great commercial acumen has ended badly.
  • How to use and apply several highly effective and practical tools to use in your commercial decision-making.
  • Applying your commercial acumen and mindset to your own business decisions. What should be considered and why?
  • What makes a business successful? The seven building blocks of business success. Considering how winning organisations use these.
  • Defining what top-level success looks like for your own organisation and/or team and creating a practical action plan to move towards this.
  • Understanding how a business works: a highly interactive simulation assessing the typical decisions and actions that a business takes and the implications of these, both financially and commercially. 
  • Applying commercial acumen to you personally and your wider team. Which aspects of commerciality would provide the most value to your business if improved and how will you do this?

If this doesn’t cover everything you need, please contact us to discuss your specific requirements. We are always happy to develop an effective and impactful solution that meets your needs.

You can find more details of how we do this on our bespoke learning page.

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Who this course is aimed at

This course will benefit people across your entire organisation. Having great commercial acumen early on in their career will allow your people to make effective commercial decisions from day one. At Board-level, these practical tools can be used to inform business strategy. The content of this course can be flexed to the appropriate level for the participants.

Course objective

To provide you and your people with practical tools and techniques to apply commercial and business acumen in the most effective way, resulting in the best commercial outcomes.

Practical information

This course can be tailored to your own organisation and your specific requirements in terms of content, case studies and the method of learning facilitation. Please contact us or visit our bespoke learning page to find out how we can do this.

This commercial training format was so clever in engaging the room by using real life interactive examples. Our team felt this was a huge help in committing the concepts to memory as well as holding their attention throughout the session. The training was comprehensive, tailored to our needs and really well delivered. Helen is clearly an expert as well as a great trainer. Highly recommend and we'll certainly be having her back.

PARTICIPANT, OCADO PLC

People like what they are seeing. We can look within the business and see that the financial and commercial acumen has improved.

PARTICIPANT, LANDSEC PLC

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