Sharpen Your Business Acumen
Because leaders make better decisions when they see the whole business.
At a glance
Why This Matters
Business success depends not only on expertise but on the ability to see how all the pieces fit together — customers, costs, competition, and culture. Many managers excel in their function but struggle to connect daily choices with financial and strategic outcomes.
This workshop helps participants develop a panoramic understanding of how businesses create value. Through simulations, case discussions, and reflection, learners explore how decisions in one area ripple across others — deepening their financial literacy, commercial judgment, and strategic insight.
Research by the Harvard Business Review found that leaders with strong business acumen are:
36%
More likely to deliver
above average
performance
15%
Their teams report 15%
higher engagement
scores
12%
Boost in productivity
Business Impact You’ll See
“You can’t manage what you don’t understand — and you can’t lead what you can’t connect.”
— Anonymous
Designed for
First-Time Managers
Mid-Level Managers
Senior Leaders
High-Potential Talent
Designed the FocusU Way
Behind every FocusU experience lies a design philosophy we call FACETS:
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F
Feedback
Learners get actionable insight into where they stand
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A
Application
Whatever is learnt is applied within the session itself
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C
Contextual
Examples are drawn from the client industry and organization
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E
Experiential
Learning by doing, not by listening
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T
Tailored
Personalised to the lived experiences of the individual learner
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S
Stimulating
Inspiring new thinking and imagination in the learner
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Walk-Through of Learner Experience
At FocusU, every learning experience follows a deliberate arc — moving participants
from awareness to application, and from insight to action.
| STAGE | WHAT HAPPENS |
|---|---|
| Discover | Participants experience engaging activities, challenges and scenarios that surface real attitudes, assumptions, and patterns of behaviour. |
| Reflect | Guided debriefs and discussions help them make sense of what they experienced - connecting it to their personal and workplace realities. |
| Reframe | Learners explore new mindsets, tools, and frameworks that offer fresh ways to approach everyday challenges. |
| Apply | Through practice, planning, and peer feedback, participants translate insights into actionable commitments they can take back to work. |
Every FocusU intervention is designed to move learners from knowing to doing — ensuring
learning doesn’t end in the workshop, but continues in how people think, collaborate, and lead.
Trusted by businesses big and small
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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 -
LEADING FOR SUCCESS" – One other brilliant session. Thanks a ton to CGI for creating a platform to explore. I thoroughly enjoyed the two day session! And I would like to share my experience with all of you who are keen
Sumeetha.
CGI Senior Software Engineer -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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.
Vishal More
Smollan
Frequently asked questions
Don’t see an answer to your question?
Drop us an email and we will get back
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 reach out to your designated client advisor or reach us at hello@focusu.com to know more about the workshop. Our team will talk with you to understand your needs better to ensure that the workshop is customized to your context.
Ready to Build Leaders Who Think
Like Business Owners?
Let’s co-create an experience that helps your people connect
the dots between decisions, numbers, and impact.