Business Acumen Skills

The competition of modern markets has expanded the responsibility of business literacy beyond the purview of senior executives. All levels of management and operations need to keep themselves ahead of the curve. 

Achieving synergy between business and customer requires cooperation and engagement with everyone in the chain. It requires the keenness and the speed of good business acumen.

Business acumen is an operational awareness of how a variety of factors could work together for the overall benefit of your organization as opposed to that of a limited, departmental viewpoint. It’s an uncanny ability to read market forces and understand how to capitalize on them. It is about working with the rest of the team to develop disciplined strategies for performance excellence, product leadership and customer intimacy. 

This program offers a modular approach to acquiring Business Acumen skills. From financial analysis to assessing human capital to succession planning. Learn how to align various department initiatives into a cohesive business strategy now.

By the end of the course, you would be:

1. Improving the speed of informed decision-making.
2. Grooming high-potential employees for career opportunities and retention.
3. Developing sustainable business acumen as a component of succession planning.
4. Driving a culture of owner/entrepreneur thinking at all levels of the business.
5. Aligning department initiatives (HR, finance, engineering, sales, etc.) with business imperatives.

MS WINNIE CHO
Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons), University of Southern Queensland
Master of Business Administration (University of South Australia)
Diploma of Training and Assessment System (Competency Training Institute of Australia)
 

Winnie is a trainer and consultant. She is passionate about sales and leadership, Her vision, “Harnessing Inner Potential”, demonstrates her belief in intrinsic capabilities and talents in everyone to succeed.  Since she started her training and consultancy career, she has broaden her exposure from pharmaceutical to others industry ranging from financial, FMCG, engineering, communication and entertainment, nutritional, chemical, industrial, construction and others industry.   Aside to her busy schedule she is also a wife, and a mother of 3, a fine example of an empowered woman. A person who always strives for the best, and at the same time inspires those around to her to achieve their potential.
 

Winnie has over 20 years of Sales and senior leadership experience in local and multinational organizations. Her most recent corporate position was as the Sales Director of a renowned and top multinational pharmaceutical company in Malaysia. In that capacity she has managed a team of more than 150 Sales personnel and was responsible for Sales revenue amounting to more than USD 100 million.
 

She has also gone through three (3) major company mergers and acquisition changes. Her wide-ranging experience in Sales, Marketing, Training and senior leadership equipped her with high versatility and capability in managing and driving organizational changes while maintaining team members’ morale.
 

Winnie’s expertise includes sales leadership, building high performance team, strategic implementation and so on. Throughout her years as Sales director, she has successfully drove 4 products to Top 10 Malaysia ethical products despite generic challenges. She also has lots of experience in building high performance team which became one of the most recognized field force in the industry.

Winnie has trained people from various industry from manufacturing, engineering, construction, nutrition, education, FMCG, nutrition companies and others. With her vast and practical experience, she will be able to add value to help organizations to be more effective and efficient.

Among her participants, Winnie is known for her applicable and job-related content that is delivered in a fun and vibrant pace. Her main strength is her vast amount of on-ground experience in sales and management , where she climbed up the corporate ladder from being a Sales Representative to leading the entire sales organization as the Sales Director. In that respect, the examples that she shares during her training is very relatable to participants. Winnie has exposure in the entire spectrum of a sales organization during her corporate days, and this includes being in sales training. When she is not on corporate training circuit, Winnie does consulting, Winnie is a registered trainer with PSMB /HRDF.