Developing Practical Business, Financial & Commercial Skills
At MDA Training, we take an experiential approach to developing financial skills. From interactive workshops full of practical exercises, case studies and activities, through to interactive business simulations, to self-led digital learning on the basics of finance – we have a wide range of solutions to choose from to meet your needs. Let’s unlock the full potential of your people with one of our business, financial, and commercial skills training solutions.
Financial Skills Tailored To Your Business
Wherever possible, and depending on your needs, we tailor our learning solutions to reflect your financial metrics and KPIs so that our training has an immediate positive impact on your business. As a result your people gain a practical understanding of your financial information to enhance their commercial decision making.
We offer a full range of solutions, covering the basics of finance, always tailored to your business, through to business simulations that reflect your operating model and commercial imperatives. We deliver in-person, virtually and through self-led learning solutions.
What Are Commercial Skills?
Commercial skills allow your people to better understand the commercial imperatives of your business, interpret and make use of the management information that is available to them, and as a consequence make better decisions for the business. Our experiential approach to developing commercial skills, blends a mix of activities and simulations with facilitator-led sessions.
Commercial Management
Commercial Management
This workshop explores the key drivers of commercial performance. It provides a practical insight into the levers that drive value in an organisation and how your people can influence them in their individual roles. Learning outcomes include: understanding how performance is measured and the challenges facing an organisation; making effective use of management information; helping to identify opportunities for enhancing the commercial performance – incoming resources, cost management activities, asset efficiency, customer experience.
Understanding Your Business Model
Understanding Your Business Model
This hands-on programme immerses participants in experiential activities closely aligned with key organisational themes and priorities providing them with the opportunity to explore and apply their learning in practical and workplace relevant scenarios. Tailored to your business, activities are typically focused around themes such as financial KPIs, risk management, cost control, commercial decision-making, values, customer focus, resourcing. Participants are required to work collaboratively in teams, with each team member managing a specific themed activity.
Enhancing Your Decision-Making
Enhancing Your Decision Making
This workshop provides the tools, skills and knowledge to make sound, commercially focused decisions. In the workshop, participants follow a step-by-step approach to making commercial decisions in an experiential case study scenario (the scenario can be tailored to reflect a typical commercial decision in your organisation if required. Participants need to make effective long-term investment decisions, by considering all possible options and identifying and evaluating the risks associated throughout. The workshop helps participant to better understand the key drivers of performance in your business and will gain practical skills and tools to measure ROI and make more effective decisions based on robust commercial principles.
Understanding Your Financial Performance
Understanding Your Financial Performance
This workshop will enhance the financial knowledge of participants, helping them to make more informed decisions and build their confidence to raise issues, justify decisions and present ideas to senior management. Tailored around your specific management information, this insightful workshop helps participants to understand and interpret financial information in your organisation. Participants come away with a practical understanding of the specific financial issues facing your organisation and identify what steps they can take to contribute to the financial drivers of your organisation in their day-to-day roles.
Building Your Commercial Acumen
Building Your Commercial Acumen
This workshop focuses on understanding your organisation’s marketplace, operating model and KPIs, and helps participants understand what commercial management means in the context of your organisation. Centred around a unique business simulation, participants have to design and deliver a client solution, keeping a firm grip on the numbers by making financial decisions and value trade-offs around cost vs risk. Participants gain a practical insight into, and better understand, how their behaviour impacts organisational KPIs and what steps they can take to improve operational effectiveness.
Driving Your Financial Performance
Driving Your Financial Performance
This experiential workshop is centred around an engaging film-making activity. It starts with your people exploring the key measures of financial performance used in your organisation. This knowledge is then applied and embedded through an activity that requires careful planning, financial budgeting, resource management, cost control, and effective project management to meet the client’s brief.
The Commerciality Business Simulation
The Commerciality Business Simulation
Our module revolves around a dynamic business simulation where participants take charge of their company’s growth and management. They navigate complexities including product/solution design and delivery, customer service, financial management, resourcing in a changing competitive landscape to deliver their strategic and financial goals. The business simulation, tailored to your values, culture and business context, embeds a stronger commercial mindset, breaking down functional silos and developing critical thinking skills, as well as highlighting how behaviours directly impact your organisation’s financial and organisational KPIs.
Bespoke Commercial Training Based Around Your Business Numbers and KPIs
Bespoke Commercial Training Based Around Your Business Numbers and KPIs
We Make Financial Knowledge Valuable Through Practical Application
We adopt a learner-centred approach where we encourage participants through an experiential learning cycle that creates new personal insights and paves the way for real behaviour change in the workplace. Learners may need to acquire new financial knowledge, but this is not sufficient to encourage new ways of working. Instead, our experiential approach goes a step further by helping participants to apply their new understanding in business simulations and activities set in the context of realistic workplace situations.
Why Settle For Off-the-shelf Solutions?
With over three decades of experience in developing commercial and financial skills the world over, we have the expertise and insights to help design and deliver a best-in-class learning solution for you. The primary focus of our business, financial and commercial skills training is to enhance the contribution that your people make to your businesses through greater financial awareness and confidence. Whether making better pricing decisions, optimising operational effectiveness, negotiating with a commercial mindset, understanding and interpreting management information, addressing specific financial challenges, or better contributing to the financial performance in your business function – we can help and have a learning solution across them all.
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