e-Learning

Taking care of business

Here's a snapshot of some of the key points discussed on this topic by CEOs and business leaders:

• Leadership | The importance of leaders focussing on self (wellbeing and communication skills) | Benefits of spending time with frontline staff - learning about the challenges staff face; identifying opportunities for greater efficiencies; engaging directly with clients | Storytelling
• Management issues | Importance of preparation - goes a long way to achieving desired outcome; finding common ground for negotiations | Changing operating models to a subscription-based approach | Intangible assets - driving success and failure | A framework for managing and monitoring behaviours | Pros and cons of offshoring and onshoring | Rapidly escalating business insurance and liability costs
• Financial management | Purpose and profit - core duties under threat; convergence of social and regulatory forces; profit an overlay or underpinning force? | Difficulty in meeting high year-on-year growth targets - better to aim for more conservative target overlaid with a stretch target | Underpayment of wages and causes - how to protect; Board involvement
• Crisis management | Foreseeing black swan events and preparing for them | Impact of Coronavirus - disrupting supply chains from China; raw materials supply at risk; possible opportunities | Corporate governance to cover climate change impact and now Coronavirus