Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Early bird pricing is in effect until July 1, 2009.



Bizvortex Consulting Group Inc. is pleased to announce the Excellence in Leadership series 2009, a series of powerful cost-effective virtual events. Included in the offering:

• Five hourly teleconferences and webinars on the key leadership competencies. Five hours of highly valuable content which you can start applying immediately.
• Prep work emailed to you before each session to maximize learning.
• Follow up information and suggested reading emailed after each session.
• Download of a session, so that if the circumstances don't allow you to participate in the live event, you will be able to take it up at your leisure. Your investment is therefore protected.

All sessions commence at 11:30am Eastern on a second Tuesday of the month. The schedule is as follows:

September 8 - Practical Strategy. Learn how to chart your course, whether you are in charge of 2 people or 20,000, in a practical, no nonsense way that informs your decisions immediately. You will be able to transform uncertainty into clear, actionable steps and milestones, and commitment.

• What is strategy, sans buzzwords
• How to assess your present position objectively
• How to create common vision, goals and milestones, which are endorsed ("bought into") by all concerned
• How to execute a successful strategy.

October 13 - Financial Skills for non-Financial Managers. The essense of financial management delivered in an intensive format. You will learn to talk to CFOs in the language they will understand.

• Practical primer in financial accounting
• How to read financial statements
• Understanding financing, investing and operating decisions

November 10 - Cost-Benefit Analysis. Learn the state of the art methods of financial analysis in just one hour. Plus, a comprehensive review of non-economic factors that often get forgotten. You will learn how to make or recommend sound investment and operating decisions, and validate proposals and other documents from vendors and consultants.

• Tools and inputs needed for analysis
• Typical weaknesses - learn why 9 out of 10 analyses can be questioned.
• Contemporary methods, their strengths and weaknesses: payback, IRR, NPV, and Real Options.

December 8 - Business Cases and Decision Making. Advocate and make winning decisions, blending the knowledge of strategy, finance, behavioral economics and psychology.

• How to use a proven framework, key success factors and typical mistakes
• How to use what you know about the audience: attention to detail, agenda, priorities, preferences, style, etc
• How to use principles of behavioral economics to your advantage, whether you are on the giving or the receiving end.

January 12 - Practical Change Management. This content is well beyond the usual project management curriculum. We will talk about the key success factors in change management, why 2/3 of all change efforts fail and how to ensure yours is a clear win.

• How to ensure broad support
• How to make others do what you want them to do
• How to measure progress and refine the approach.
  
   

All sessions can be purchased individually for $95, which is a trivial investment when compared to the impact achieved. The whole series of can be purchased for $300 and, if paying before July 1, 2009, there is an early bird price of $250. All prices are quoted in USD.

To book, visit www.bizvortex.com.