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Sharpen Your Business Acumen

Explore market dynamics, strategic thinking, and business models through interactive activities, and become equipped to make more strategic decisions that drive organizational success and growth.

Business Impact

Ideally Suitable For

  • Individual Contributors
  • Senior Leaders
  • Managers

The delivery will be customised as per the needs of the learning cohort.

What you will learn in Sharpen Your Business Acumen

How is this activity available?

Instructor-led Training (ILT)

Instructor-led Training (ILT)

Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT)

Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT)

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  • Instructor-led Training (ILT) Instructor-led Training (ILT)
  • Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT) Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT)
  • 25+ fun challengesIdeal for: 20-30 participants at a time
  • Experiential activities
  • Reflection activities
  • Duration: 0.5 day or full day
  • Participant handbook (optional)
  • Pre-work assignment (optional)
  • Post-work assignment (optional)
  • eDM formats for communication (optional)
  • Video highlights of workshop (optional)

The program will help in the following ways:

  • Understanding the market better will help the company compete more effectively.
  • Teams will make smarter decisions by focusing on long-term goals.
  • Improving the business model will lead to higher profits and a stronger market position.
  • Daily actions will align better with the company’s priorities, improving overall performance.
  • Clear action plans will help teams bring new ideas to life and add value to the business.
  • Develop a big-picture mindset through an experiential activity.
  • Understand the importance of strategic thinking in achieving business success.
  • Use Porter’s 5 Forces to examine marketplace factors affecting the organization.
  • Identify gaps and opportunities through strategic value curves.
  • Understand and evaluate the Business Model Canvas (BMC).
  • Identify areas to refine the organization’s business model for greater impact.

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Every single workshop (except the asynchronous self-paced modules) is customized to the precise customer need and brief. Our client advisory team will work closely with you to understand your context and pass it on to the execution team.

For each workshop, we can help you with three different teasers you can customize and share periodically with participants to build excitement and get traction.

We are glad you asked that question. Every learning intervention starts with "Why?" and "What is the difference you want to see at the workplace because your learner attended this session?" Once we are clear, our learning designers create a thoughtfully curated learning journey that could be a mix of different methodologies chosen to suit your learning environment. Besides this, to aid learning, we can (optionally) buttress it through the following:

  • A pre-learning assignment for learners to know where they stand before the journey
  • A participant handbook aids the learner in returning to what was covered during the session and reviewing it again. It helps in learning reinforcement.
  • A post-learning assignment helps learners know where they stand after the journey. Assessing the gap in learning helps learners in bridging it
  • Pocket insights—a ready reckoner with the key concepts that can either be carried along or be pinned up as a ready reminder.
  • Manager Essentials—tips (for the managers of the learners) to recognize behavioral changes and create an environment that encourages the learners to put what they have learned to practice.
  • Post-learning application of learning at the workplace through a specific project.
  • We try to capture the impact of every learning intervention through an impact report that is then shared with clients.

You can download a program overview from each of the topic pages. While this will give you an overall workshop structure, our learning designers will still need to talk with you to customize the workshop to your context.

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    Each activity conducted was done really-really well. Extremely innovative - the props that they used were very simple but the value that each activity added was outstanding! The best part was a power packed debrief. They are simply amazing to say the least. A Ten star rating isn't enough to summarize the value that they added to the participants who attended. I wish the team all the very best for all the efforts to deliver a memorable training program.

    Antony Titus
    DHL Express India Head - Customer Service Development
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    CGI Senior Software Engineer
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    We were all super impressed by the team, they were very well prepared and absolutely took charge of everything they did. What a fun bunch, I'm glad we partnered on this and can safely say it all went very well. Huge THANK YOU to you and the team on the ground!

    Farheen Mehdi
    Uber Global Learning & Development Lead
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    I am writing this as an extremely satisfied and delighted customer. Ours is a very young team. Many of our team members joined us directly from campus over the last five years. We also have a multi-disciplinary engineering team. Our challenge was to get the entire team working together as one, demonstrating a high degree of ownership. For this, we needed a program that was highly engaging and fun.

    RamG Vallath
    Zentron Labs Vision Catalyst
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    I thoroughly enjoyed the two day MBTI® session! The overall objective was to get insights on introspection - to enable us to handle our team, work culture and environment, according to the situation. It's like reading yourself through the mirror! If applied on a daily basis, we are able to build trust and confidence, to communicate, discover opportunities, and handle constructive conflicts.

    Sumeetha
    CGI Senior Software Engineer
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    Thank you FocusU and Smollan L&D team for designing such a wonderful continuous learning program. It acted like small and effective doses to look for what next. Case studies chosen were all relevant for my Global Development Team & I could not ask for more. Let’s plan for some monthly 1 hour on premise confluence sessions.

    Vijay Varshney
    SMOLLAN Head of Technology - MESA
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    The Learning challenge was very informative and challenging. The thing which I love about this challenge is that it provides videos also that make it easy to understand the concept.

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    Smollan