Building Business Acumen®

"This was the most informative course I have attended in my 3.5+ years at Aflac. It should be a required course for manager-level employees and above. The way it also challenged us to apply the concepts back to our roles was excellent."

Business Project Manager

Aflac

New regulations and a global economy has forever changed the financial and insurance landscape. Executive teams are now in the mode of continuously rethinking how regulators, employees, global competitors, and customers impact their business. They’re abandoning industrial-era tactics that limit growth, they’re repositioning strategies to better leverage new proficiencies and operating metrics, and they’re recognizing that in-order to make good on their promises they need to tap into their talent’s intellectual energy to achieve results faster.

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For example, one of the Big Four Accounting Firms invited Acumen Learning to participate in their intern training program. Coming from some of the top business schools in the world these interns had financial acumen, but of course business acumen is more than a mere understanding of financial statements. Our client needed these potential employees to understand how businesses compete and win in the real world. We were invited back to teach a series of industry specific courses for their vertical managers.