Competing on Transformation and Mastering Change for Business Success

3 weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Get essential skills and improve business acumen to advance your career!

Course overview

Build Business Acumen and Increase your Earning Potential

This Bootcamp is designed to provide you with key business knowledge and help advance your career. Through business simulation gaming and team exercises, you’ll better understand business functions and their relationship to each other.

This course is for you if...

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You are maxed out today at your current level of business knowledge and skill. 

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You need to improve your business acumen and decision-making that will get you to the next level.

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You'd like to exchange ideas with like-minded professionals and hear their stories.

See the “big picture” of the organization—how the key drivers of business work together to produce profitable growth

Recognize the importance of a customer-focused strategy and how to create one.

Formulate an initial business strategy and then execute it in the hope that it will generate customer satisfaction, motivated employees, and revenue and profits.

Develop a fundamental understanding of financial analysis.

Confidently discuss the finances of a project, division, or company and ask the right questions. Learning to assess and explain your organization’s performance using financial statements.


Use knowledge to make sound business decisions

Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. It offers the opportunity to learn about business modeling and business planning.

Analyzing the company’s competitive position in the marketplace

Applying techniques to schedule projects; estimate resources, cost, and scope; distribute responsibilities; create status reports; and monitor processes

Hands-on busines simulation

Make a range of strategic and functional decisions that represent common themes in the business including strategy, marketing, human resources, operations, and finance.

        "An excellent workshop in terms of content as well as interaction with the instructor and other participants. The exercises are very engaging and reinforce hands-on learning. Will definitely use these concepts on setting up all our programs.”
Gabriela B.

Gabriela B.

Sr. Project Manager
        “It’s difficult to say what I liked most, as all elements of this workshop were outstanding. Among these were: completely pragmatic focus and tone overall; collegial interactions and interactive nature of the workshop”.
Danny A.

Danny A.

PMP
        "I totally enjoyed Joe’s presentation. His knowledge and confidence in the topic are amazing. He did a great job at making it interesting for the audience and keeping us engaged."
Robert D.

Robert D.

Senior Business Analyst
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Meet your instructor

Joseph Raynus is a published author, business consultant, mentor, and teacher.

Joseph Raynus is a published author, business consultant, mentor, and teacher.

Hi, I am Joseph! I provide expert training and advice to empower business professionals on the way up in their careers. I facilitated large-scale organizational change, designed and led comprehensive training programs, personally managed multi-million-dollar technology projects, and been a trainer and mentor to different levels of management

I teach Strategy and Innovation courses at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston and worked with multiple companies to provide business planning, training, and consulting services in business strategy and operations. I've helped many people learn key skills essential for business acumen to establish and grow their businesses and realize their best potential.

I offer you a cohort-based course on business essentials that gives you true knowledge power to create, manage and monitor business operations and initiatives.

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Course syllabus

6 Live Workshops With Examples, Business Simulation, and Coaching

4-6 hours per week

  • Tuesdays & Thursdays

    10:00am - 12:00pm EST

    We'll have 2-hour live group Zoom sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays to work through major business concepts and business simulations together. The live sessions will be recorded but attendance is recommended to get the most out of the cohort experience.

  • The course will run from October 10th to October 28, 2022. You'll work independently and in groups on your product, service, and business ideas.

  • Weekly projects

    Student projects

    1-4 hours per week

    This is a project-driven course where students will be applying the material to a business simulation game. In this game, you will make various strategic and functional decisions representing common themes in business and management.

  • Office Hours

    TBA

    I will host office hours outside of the lessons throughout the course to provide additional time to answer student questions and give input on their projects. Attendance is voluntary.

“The future belongs to the competent.”

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Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Learn about business modeling and business planning

Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Learn about business modeling and business planning

Active learning, not passive watching

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on business simulation

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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