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Comments from participants on similar Directional workshops:
"Professionally presented with lots of useful models and practical examples".
Anthony Pucciarelli, Managing Director, KPSS Australia
“An excellent introduction to understanding the impact of financial and operational decisions on the company’s overall performance. Well presented and very educational.”
Roshan Ramnarain, General Manager, The Smart Group
"A lot of good content."
Bruce Hitchcock, National Field Sales Manager, Kellogg's
"Your practical experience brings the theory to real life."
Ken Lu, State Sales Manager - Electrolux
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Profit Storm® - Finance for Non-Accountants in the Retail sector
A joint initiative with the Australian
Retailers’ Association
Profit StormŽ is an enjoyable, stimulating and highly effective one-day workshop designed specifically for:
Executives or Managers needing a better understanding:
~ of Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash-flow statements
~ of the financial impact of operational decisions
~ how your business decisions can impact financial performance and solve operational weaknesses
Sales professionals needing a better understanding:
~ how to identify strategic business needs
~ how your solutions improve the operational and financial performance of your clients
~ how business cases are developed, assessed and prioritised
Fast-track managers
~ being groomed for increased P&L responsibility
Overview:
In this workshop, you’ll work as part of the management team tasked with improving the performance of a business. Using a sophisticated business simulation, you’ll start by assessing the performance of your predecessors. You’ll quickly see that while the financial results look reasonable at first sight, they camouflage weaknesses in a number of areas.
You and your colleagues will need to make numerous financial and operational decisions to address these weaknesses and improve performance in key areas of the business. You’ll see and feel how the money works through the company’s value chain and what impact your decisions have on the bottom line at the end of each year.
Along the way, you’ll learn how to build and analyse the profit & loss, balance sheet and cash-flow statements for the business. You’ll assess performance by calculating profitability and operational ratios.
Your Facilitator:
The workshop will be led by Paul Howdle, Managing Consultant of Directional. Paul has led workshops for clients such as Kellogg’s, Tyrrell’s Wines, Fujitsu, BP’s C-store managers and franchisees and Commonwealth Bank, and as a guest lecturer at Australia's top-rated business school - the Australian Graduate School of Management.
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Participant numbers are limited to 20 to maximise your learning, so please register with us quickly if you are interested in attending.
Public workshop dates and location details
To enquire about attending future public workshops, or running the workshop in-house, please contact us:
T +61 (0) 2 9983 0712
E info@directional.biz
Optional follow-up coaching or consulting
Directional offers a suite of services to help participants apply the learning from this workshop to their role. For example, we work with executives and departmental managers to develop balanced-scorecard business or divisional plans. We help sales professionals and bid managers on pursuit strategy, bid strategy, building the value strategy and business case. Please contact us for more information.
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