CFOs need their Finance professionals to be trusted advisors to executives in the firm; their functional teams face ever-increasing pressure to deliver clear, cogent analysis and communications in order to gain and retain that trust.  The 2-day Financial Communications Workshop rapidly elevates the financial communications performance of finance teams with their internal customers, including the CEO, Line of Business heads, and other executives.

The FCW is uniquely designed for Finance organizations.  It uses a proprietary competency model and associated 360º assessment as a platform for understanding and improving Finance function performance.  The workshop is divided into 5 primary learning modules that result in the following learning outcomes:

• Shared understanding of the team’s major FC strengths and weaknesses
• Shared approaches for understanding and meeting the unique needs of key internal customers
• Improved analysis on your own data-oriented reports
• Improved communications on your own text-oriented reports that drive effective action
• Communications skills that enhance business relationships

We build your firm's capabilities by using an action learning / planning process that has your teams:

• Spend most of their time working together, not listening to lectures
• Work on the most valuable issues and topics relevant to their situation
• Develop a draft plan that identifies their recommendations for customer and CFO buy-in

The workshop will be customized to meet your organization’s specific needs.  It is demanding: participants discover their work together is as intense and challenging as the day jobs they have temporarily left behind.  We use examples and cases from within your organization that your employees immediately relate to rather than external examples.  Participation in each workshop is limited to your firm’s own teams and employees, enabling open dialogue and learning to take place. We also make sure that the workshops reflect respect for the various languages and business cultures of a globally and organizationally diverse firm.

The workshop is well-suited for firms with Finance teams located around the globe and where the common business language is English, but also where native languages are used on local sites.  To-date Ron has with worked in 12 countries from Kuala Lumpur to Bucharest with 135 intact teams representing 19 nations and 16 languages - to very positive reviews.

This workshop is available to a select number of firms.  Please contact Ron for more details at ron@ronbenton.com.