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The ROLE of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership Today

The Center For Leadership Studies

EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) still matters as does the P&L (profit and loss statement) and the deadline for 2021 projections (who can imagine?!) That sounds like a solid case for Emotional Intelligence training and coaching for leaders if I ever heard one! Harvard Business Review.

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What are the numbers this quarter on Values Conflicts?

CO2

Leaders are trained to identify when revenues, EBITDA, number of new customers, and retention of customers are up or down. They are less likely to receive training in how to identify values conflicts. . Values conflicts can have a tremendous impact on employee engagement, employee retention, and alignment.

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How Mature is Your Risk Management?

Harvard Business Review

They clearly generate higher growth in revenue, EBITDA, and EBITDA/EV. Companies in the top 20% of risk maturity generated three times the level of EBITDA as those in the bottom 20%. To optimize risk functions , top performers: Incorporate risk-related training into individual performance.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. If your company offers internal finance training, take advantage of it. “Suddenly I needed to know things like EBITDA and how enterprise value was determined,” he says. ”

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Don't Anesthetize Your Colleagues with Bad Writing

Harvard Business Review

But if you also throw in acronyms such as ABC ("activity-based costing"), EBITDA ("earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization"), and VBM ("value-based management"), only the accountants in your audience will follow you — you'll lose everyone else. Use them judiciously. Never put your own readers through that.

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The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy

HR Digest

It’s not a one-time event, whether it be a three-day seminar or a three-week training program. Financial training programs for first- and second-line managers must begin with basic terminology. Virtually every organization we encounter needs significant training for their managers and leaders in this area.

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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

It reorganized its sales force to focus on specific segments within the hospital market, and trained both its sales and service teams (which now visited sites early in the sales cycle) on outcome-based selling. Next, Alphatech set out to redesign its sales processes in order to support its new strategy. It did this in a few ways.