Building Value and Driving Profits
During “Building Value and Driving Profits,” you’ll acquire a truly instinctive business behavior…
- Clearly understand why your customers choose to do business with you
- Ensure your pricing is consistent with your business strategy and customer expectations
- Limit risk exposures and achieve optimum returns with appropriate financial structuring
- Evaluate your organization in light of your industry and competitors
- Recognize the interrelated chain of events between decisions and organizational results
- Sharpen your business acumen — understand how your company makes a profit so you can make decisions back at the office that are on strategy and have a collaborative, organizational focus
Why we choose Capstone®
Capstone, the world’s best-selling business simulation, accelerates your learning because hands-on practice is proven to be one of the most powerful ways people learn. In our small classroom setting, your retention is boosted further by drawing from multiple successful teaching techniques — reading, writing, group discussion, team interaction, hands-on practice and case studies — plus immediate and interactive analysis of the cause-and-effect results.
Throughout the simulation, you’ll focus on decision making. This lets you experience strategy, tactics and policy within different business areas, including production, accounting, marketing, finance, quality control, human resources and management.
If you practice a hobby and train for a sport, how do you prepare for business?
Consider these four compelling reasons to attend “Building Value and Driving Profits”:
- Hands-on learning. Simulations exist because people learn best by doing. Hands-on learning is the most powerful educational tool you can use, second only to risky on-the-job training. In this course, you’ll face real-life business situations and must react to customers and competition. Just as at your organization, this dynamic business scenario changes every virtual year as the marketplace evolves and competition builds.
- Shared knowledge and experiences. You and your teammates will work with a business coach who critiques your team’s performance, offers suggestions and challenges your basic assumptions. You’ll also absorb valuable insights and perspectives from your team members, who are often from dissimilar industries and functional positions.
- Teamwork. Like cross-functional teams at your own organization, you’ll work closely with your team throughout the course, making decisions together and relying on each other. This collaborative approach gives you all practice viewing obstacles from a higher-level organizational angle, not solely a departmental one. Also, this team environment provides support in helping you through functional areas or topics potentially unfamiliar to you.
- Real-world application. First, learn through expert, instructor-led briefings with discussions of best practices at successful organizations. Then, as a group, you and your teammates will compare and contrast what happened in each team’s simulation with what has similarly happened to well-know corporations…and learn how to avoid the same mistakes back at your workplace.
Schedule
Evening before course — 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Optional dinner for those arriving early
Days 1 and 2 — 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Session
Day 3 — 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session