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Manager/Director Level Programs

Rising Leader Program

Challenging mini-MBA for aspiring leaders

Becoming an Effective Manager

Essential management skills for new managers

Developing Business Acumen

Real-world practice in value creation and analysis

Executing in Cross-Functional Environments

Leadership and influencing skills for decision-making

VP/Senior Level Programs

Senior Leader Program

Practice-based learning for executive leaders

Creating Strategic Business Value

Financial impact and investment analysis skill-building

Leading Organizational Change

Executive-level leadership and enterprise-thinking

For Individuals

Open Enrollment Invited MBA

Learn about our 12-week mini-MBA

Manager/Director Level Simulations

Management Challenge

Build critical people management skills in your people leaders

Business Challenge

Expand the business acumen of your nonfinancial managers

Enterprise Challenge

Develop cross-functional communication skills in a dynamic environment

VP/Senior Level Simulations

Finance Challenge

Hone the strategic financial acumen skills of your executives

Executive Challenge

Offer a world-class leadership simulation to your senior executives

Virtual Program Design

Create virtual training that sticks

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Extend the reach of our programs and simulations to a global audience using your internal L&D facilitation talent

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Tailor our simulation-based leadership programs to your needs

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Offer a comprehensive business acumen primer for nonfinancial managers

Enterprise & Executive Summits

Offer intensive strategy off-sites

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Business Challenge

Expand the business acumen of your nonfinancial managers and empower them to drive business value.

Understanding Business Through Competition

Put your nonfinancial managers in the driver’s seat of business. Let them balance variables and feel the pressure of making economic trade-offs. They will put their skills to the test and learn from their successes and failures. Through facilitated debriefs and an immersive learn-by-doing environment, nonfinancial managers will more confidently understand financial data and make decisions that drive business value.

The challenge had a strong impact. Instead of remembering financial terms, I had the chance to make mistakes and learn from it.

Participant, Kohler Power Group

The details

Objectives

Use the language of business and finance to communicate cross-functionally

Connect day-to-day decisions to three key business value drivers: growth, profitability, and risk

Understand the connection between company strategy and financial performance indicators

Audience

Individual contributors, managers, and new directors without a financial background

Participants in cross-functional leadership development programs

Nonfinancial managers in function-specific programs

Format

Facilitated 8 hour experience (shortened formats available)

In-person or virtual classroom

Ideal capstone for leadership programs

Employees engaged in cohort-based business simulation

Online or Classroom Options

Why Business Challenge?

People across the enterprise need to communicate effectively about business metrics and evaluate financial data to make informed business decisions. Business Challenge gives them the practice environment to more confidently use financial data to make decisions that drive business value.

The simulation was excellent, made you consider factors like risk, competitors, growth strategies but in a fun and engaging way.

Participant, Dell Technologies

How Does it Work?

  • Participants compete in a dynamic business simulation and manage the complete value creation cycle — from sales and operations to launching new business units.
  • Participants work in small cohorts to practice interpreting financial data using targeted practice exercises.
  • The experience incorporates lessons in strategic planning, financial statement analysis, cost structure analysis, evaluating financial levers, and understanding the drivers of business value.
  • Certified faculty with extensive finance and training experience debrief the learning and provide coaching insights.
  • Facilitator certification for client-internal trainers is available.
  • Ask about online access to Fluent in Finance, an interactive self-paced pre-work curriculum designed to supplement the Business Challenge experience.

I feel that I now have the knowledge to understand CFO-level financial discussions at a basic level.

Participant, GE DTLP Program
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Case Study

Business Acumen for Leaders

Southwest Airlines invests significantly in leadership development through a variety of learning experiences. Business acumen is an imperative concept for leaders to develop as they focus on meeting the company’s fiscal and operational goals. Recognizing this, Southwest identified the need to include a module on financial acumen in their high-potential leadership development program.

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At Abilitie, we’ve been successfully running our award-winning, cohort-based leadership programs as virtual and hybrid learning experiences since 2015. Through our work with hundreds of global clients, we have learned the key factors that make a hybrid learning experience a success.

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