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Experiential Leadership Development

Manager/Director Level Programs

  • Rising Leader Program

    Challenging mini-MBA for aspiring leaders

  • Becoming an Effective Manager

    Essential management skills for new managers

  • Building Business & Financial 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

  • Certifications

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

  • Design Workshops

    Tailor our simulation-based leadership programs to your needs

  • Fluent in Finance

    Offer a comprehensive business acumen primer for nonfinancial managers

  • Enterprise & Executive Summits

    Offer intensive strategy off-sites

  • Case Studies

  • Learn to Lead Podcast

  • Events

  • From the Blog

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Programs

  • Rising Leader Program

  • Senior Leader Program

  • Becoming an Effective Manager

  • Creating Strategic Business Value

  • Building Business & Financial Acumen

  • Leading Organizational Change

  • Executing in Cross-Functional Environments

  • Open Enrollment Invited MBA

Simulations

  • Management Challenge

  • Business Challenge

  • Enterprise Challenge

  • Finance Challenge

  • Executive Challenge

Resources

  • Virtual Program Design

  • Fluent in Finance

  • Certifications

  • Enterprise & Executive Summits

  • Design Workshops

  • Client Successes

  • Awards & Recognition

  • Learn to Lead Podcast

  • Who We Are

  • Events

  • Careers

  • From the Blog

  • Contact Us

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Finance Challenge

Put your senior leaders to the test in a sophisticated business acumen and strategy competition.

Finance for Nonfinancial Senior Leaders

Expand your leaders’ business horizons. Let them make difficult long-term investment decisions and feel the pressure of making economic trade-offs as they learn from their successes and failures in a safe, simulated business environment. Through expertly facilitated debriefs, your leaders will feel more confident making investment decisions, utilizing financial ratios like ROIC (Return on Invested Capital), and evaluating strategic options that drive long-term business value.

Thinking through the entire process from R&D to manufacturing and sales was really cool and gave a great broad financial perspective that I don’t get to see every day.

Participant, General Electric

The details

Objectives

Use the language of finance and advanced financial performance metrics to plan and evaluate investments.

Predict the impact of operational decisions on growth, profits, working capital, risk, and long-term value creation.

Understand the connections between financial performance metrics, company strategy, and competitive market dynamics.

Audience

Senior Director- and VP-level leaders

Participants in senior-level LDPs

Intact cross-functional teams at the VP+ level

Format

In-person or virtual classroom

Facilitated 8 hour experience (shortened formats available)

Ideal capstone for leadership programs

Rising leaders at a Fortune 500 company building business and financial acumen with the Finance Challenge business simulation

A team of employees participating in the Finance Challenge business simulation L&D program

Why Finance Challenge?

Senior leaders of an enterprise need to communicate effectively to stakeholders about business metrics and evaluate financial data to make informed business decisions. Finance Challenge provides a safe environment to experiment with business levers and see the impact of executive-level decisions in real-time. It offers participants practice using financial data to make decisions that drive business value.

The material, simulation, facilitator, all top notch. This should be mandatory for anyone with a hand, or interest in business.

Participant, Dell Technologies

How Does it Work?

  • Participants compete in small teams in a sophisticated, dynamic marketplace.
  • Participants analyze financial data and ratios and have to make long-term investment decisions with ambiguous data sets.
  • The experience incorporates lessons in strategic investment analysis, ratio analysis, business planning, return on invested capital, evaluating strategic levers, and understanding the drivers of business value.
  • Certified facilitators with extensive finance and training experience debrief the learning and provide coaching insights.
  • Facilitator certification for client-internal trainers is available.
  • One year of online access to Fluent in Finance, an interactive self-paced pre-work curriculum for all program participants is included.

How Do I Use It?

Finance Challenge can successfully integrate into your senior leader development programs, whether you are expanding business acumen horizons in senior functional leadership teams or cross-functional enterprise leaders.

Finance Challenge can also form the cornerstone of a new senior-level leadership development program. Abilitie has extensive experience in creating impactful executive education programs for clients around the world. Learn more about our custom program design options for senior leaders here.

Senior Directors
VP-Level NonFinancial Executives

Senior Directors

Hone Senior-Level Business Acumen

Many leaders have never had a formal business school education and have learned key financial concepts on the fly. Finance Challenge provides seasoned leaders the opportunity to hone their financial acumen skills in a rich and thought-provoking team-based competition.

VP-Level NonFinancial Executives

Provide a Safe Practice Environment for Your Executives

Most executives are competitive by nature. Finance Challenge provides a rich learning and safe practice environment for your senior leaders and allows them to test their financial acumen skills in a fun cohort-based competition.

Intact Executive Teams

Build Your Executive Team With A Challenging Competition

Finance Challenge can be used as an ideal team-building experience for senior-level teams. By allowing your executives to run a simulated company over multiple years and compete with peers, you build executive-level business acumen and bring your executive team closer together.

The software was one of the best simulations I’ve been through in any training I’ve received through the years.

Participant, Lane Construction
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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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Learn More About The Finance Challenge Simulation

We work with clients in interactive design workshops to find the right solution for you. Give us a call at (512) 593-8726 to schedule an exploratory conversation today.

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Programs

  • Rising Leader
  • Senior Leader
  • Becoming An Effective Manager
  • Building Business & Financial Acumen
  • Executing In Cross-Functional Environments
  • Creating Strategic Business Value
  • Leading Organizational Change

Simulations

  • Management Challenge
  • Business Challenge
  • Enterprise Challenge
  • Finance Challenge
  • Executive Challenge

Resources

  • Virtual Program Design
  • Certifications
  • Design Workshops
  • Fluent In Finance
  • Enterprise & Executive Summits

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