Finance for Non-Finance Professionals

This course will equip Learners with the essential competencies required to successfully manage a business unit.

The concepts introduced in the course will enable them to make basic financial calculations, identify opportunities and recognise threats in dynamic business environments.

Learners will play our proprietary board game END·GAME where they take on the role of business owners to practice making effective business decisions.

Recognise the significance of financial reporting and financial statements

- Identify the different types of revenue and cost structures
- Forecast upcoming trends
- Conduct break-even analysis
- Formulate an intelligent budget
- Make effective business decisions

Project Management Essentials - Time, Cost and Scope

This course will equip Learners with the essential competencies required to successfully manage a business unit.

The concepts introduced in the course will enable them to make basic financial calculations, identify opportunities and recognise threats in dynamic business environments.

Learners will play our proprietary board game END·GAME where they take on the role of business owners to practice making effective business decisions.

- Recognise the significance of financial reporting and financial statements
- Identify the different types of revenue and cost structures
- Forecast upcoming trends
- Conduct break-even analysis
- Formulate an intelligent budget
- Make effective business decisions

Project Costing and Feasibility

In this course, Learners will acquire the skills required to perform effective Project Costing and Feasibility competencies. The focus will be on the cost aspects of Project Management, such as Opportunity Analysis, Business Case and Feasibility studies, Profitability and Cost analysis, Budget Planning and Control, through to reviewing Returns on Investment.

- Utilise the formal stages and processes in a Project Lifecycle to avoid wastage of time and effort, and to ensure clear, specific deliverables
- Employ robust Cost and Revenue forecasting techniques to ensure accurate financial budgeting
- Compare financial viability of various competing projects to optimise profitability for the company
- Identify Project Risks and formulate effective Risk Management strategies

Leadership and Communication Strategies

Leadership:

Leaders at every level contribute to the success or failure of your organisation. With multiple business pressures mounting, it is essential that Leaders properly groom and develop talent to ensure the continuity and profitability of business operations.

This course will equip Learners with the essential competencies required to successfully inspire and motivate a team.

- Apply appropriate leadership styles for varying situations
- Develop new and creative approaches to nurture and motivate team members
- Execute effective communication strategies
- Employ the 2-Factor Agreement (2-FA) Feedback Process
- Implement monitoring and evaluation metrics to measure performance

Communication:

Good communication skills help to deepen connections to others and improve teamwork, decision making, and problem solving.

This activity-based course will present Learners with realistic challenges in an interactive and unique setting to practice and develop the Skills needed to gain consensus, build trust and forge enduring working relationships.

- Analyse the various types of interpersonal relationships on team dynamics
- Recognise the causes of poor team dynamics in the workplace
- Identify different communication styles, including personal style
- Convey feedback with a constructive approach
- Practice appropriate strategies to overcome communication barriers

Conflict Management:

Through appreciating the nature and role of conflict in our world, this course will guide the Learners to navigate around the pitfalls of conflict situations and learn how to leverage on it.

Through activity-based Learning, Learners will realise and take ownership of their personal conflict management style and experience ways to resolve conflict situations during the activities.

- Examine the causes of conflict
- Recognise the benefits and hazards of work related conflict
- Identify typical conflict managements styles, including personal style
- Employ S.O.L.V.E technique to developed approaches to conflict
- Practice appropriate strategies to resolve conflict