From Employees to Owners:
Building an Organization of Thinkers and Doers
Every employee is a decision maker. But most employees -- even many with senior management responsibilities -- are unaware of the financial implications of the choices they make. Financial awareness, never mind acumen, is surprisingly low in even the most sophisticated organizations.
Consider this: The average employee believes that profits from sales range from 40 to 70 percent.
Not surprisingly, such financial misperception impairs strategic and operational performance, leads to resource misallocation, and creates excessive cost and inefficiencies. In tough times, everyone must become financially astute, committed business thinkers and doers.
And remember:
- Every business we ever evaluated was wasting money -- daily
- Every employee can improve his or her job performance -- but less than 10% ever make it happen
- Every workgroup can drive out costs and improve quality in 90 days or less -- but not without tools, knowledge, and a mechanism to do it
- Rapidly improve cash flow by hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars
- Ensure widespread ownership of business objectives, eliminating the entitlement mentality
- Identify the most critical financial and operational results
- Provide basic knowledge of the organization's business and finances
- Deepen employees' understanding of how their jobs link to overall business objectives and how they can help to achieve them
And the special bonus: The Financial Acumen and Ownership Thinking™ workshop is fun. Participants get involved in the "great game of business" and learn by doing, sharing, and even competing.
Metrus Group reviews and analyzes your organization's background information, including an analysis of financial trends and competitor benchmarks.
- Interactive discussion and hands-on analysis of the three fundamental financial statements -- the balance sheet, the income statement and the cash flow statement - and how they relate to one another
- Review of the organizational analyses completed in the pre-work to identify areas of greatest potential savings
- Discussion of how tasks are connected to business objectives and the organization's financial and operational results
- Case studies focused on your organization's real-time issues based on pre-workshop information
- Ways to improve financial results and generate additional cash for the business
- Techniques for improving performance predictability and forecasting accuracy
Learning occurs in a fun, dynamic, results-oriented environment.
- Review of the workshop results at 15 to 30 day intervals within three months of the workshop experience
- Phone and e-mail support for six months following the workshop
- Metrus Strategic Measurement Survey to assess your measurement practices against best-in-class performance
- Metrus Measurement Acumen Workshop
- by e-mail
- by phone (908) 231-1900