Cross-Functional Finance Manager Skills
The Client Need
"To help our first-year managers succeed in their new role, we wanted to bring them together and provide them with soft-skills training specific to their finance role. They needed skills refinement in storytelling, cross-functional collaboration, and risk management. It was important to us to create learning that was immersive and authentic."
- Fortune 100 Firm
The Design
A two-day, in-person, immersive experience in which learners analyze and solve multiple real-life case scenarios while building their internal collaborative network.
Audience: First and second-year finance managers - U.S. and India
Skills in Focus: Storytelling; teaming and cross-functional collaboration; risk management
Features: Observe and Critique; Story-Centered Learning; Immersive Simulation; Instructor-Led Training (ILT); Gamification
The Details
Learners critique a peer’s (fictional) presentation to an internal leader. Working in teams, they revise and present an updated version and receive feedback from peers and expert facilitators.
A card game stimulates discussion on storytelling best practices to reinforce lessons learned while also facilitating face-to-face networking.
Learners analyze 3 internal finance-related situations that went awry. Teams recommend resolution strategies to fictional leaders who throw curve balls, requiring learners to think on their feet and practice newly acquired skills.
Participants are grouped into mixed job-function teams to discuss additional authentic scenarios that benefit from cross-functional teaming, and present recommendations they can use themselves in the future.
The Awards
AWARD-WINNING PROGRAM: Brandon Hall Excellence Awards recognize the best organizations that have successfully deployed programs, strategies, modalities, processes, systems, and tools that have achieved measurable results.
