Understand Your Business: Unlock Organizational Value
Overview
Finance leaders today must go beyond the numbers to truly understand and influence how their business operates. Understand Your Business is a practical course that equips finance professionals with the insight and tools to broaden their commercial perspective, navigate internal dynamics, and lead with business acumen. Through real-world lessons on cross-functional engagement, cultural influence, and strategic alignment, participants will learn to build stronger relationships, drive enterprise value, and amplify their impact as trusted business partners.
Learning Objectives:
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Identify common structures, roles, and challenges across key business departments.
- Recognize the informal networks and decision-making dynamics that influence how things get done.
- Select effective approaches to build cross-functional relationships and trust.
- Differentiate between formal and informal sources of power within your organization.
- Identify practical strategies to improve your finance team’s business engagement and commercial awareness.
This course includes practical exercises, mentor insights, and scenario-based questions to reinforce learning and ensure participants can apply key concepts in real-world finance leadership situations. Upon successful completion, participants will receive a CPD-accredited certificate.
Lessons:
Lesson 1: See the Whole Picture
Understand how your business really works—beyond the numbers—to build credibility, influence decisions, and step into your role as a true strategic partner.
Lesson 2: Engage and Influence Across the Business
Move from support to strategic partnership by building trust across functions, influencing key decisions, and engaging the business with confidence, clarity, and commercial insight.
Lesson 3: Lead With Business Insight
Lead with insight by mastering the rhythms, questions, and balance needed to influence decisions, challenge constructively, and drive the business agenda from the finance seat.
Additional Information
CPD Hours: 2
Field of Study: Management Services
No prerequisite knowledge is required to be successful in this course.
No advance preparation is required.
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: QAS Self Study
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