All too often, people reach a management position with no formal training in finance. And when they do get any financial training, as often as not it is a generic programme, rather than one based on their organisation’s own financial management processes and procedures. Why leave your managers to bluff their way with accountants talking a different language? We have some outstanding finance trainers who can make the subject relevant by tailoring their programmes to your organisation’s processes and issues – and who can also make it fast, furious and fun, taking the fear out of finance!

Looking for a virtual option? Most of our programmes can also be delivered in webinar formats. To discuss what this might look like for your organisation, give us a call on 01582 463463 to talk through your requirements. (See also the extensive range of ‘off-the-shelf’ webinars offered by our sister company, Maximum Performance, here.)

Finance is a challenging subject for many people, so to help them absorb the concepts more easily and see the relevance of financial management to their daily work we have put together a portfolio of programmes addressing the particular needs of different functions or sectors:

• Finance for charities
• Finance for directors (a one-day refresher)
• Finance for FM
• Finance for housing associations
• Finance for HR
• Finance for insurance professionals
• Finance for lawyers
• Finance for NHS managers
• Finance for PAs, secretaries and support staff
• Finance for project managers
• Finance for public sector managers
• Finance for purchasing and procurement
• Finance for retail managers
• Finance for sales and marketing
• The senior managers’ guide to GAAP, IFRS and other accounting standards issues

Credit control and debt collection can also be a minefield, particularly for public sector bodies. It’s vital that staff are properly trained – and we have the trainer and the courses for the job:

• Advanced collection skills for supervisory staff
• County Court suing and enforcement
• Credit checking
• Data protection issues, debt counselling and financial hardship
• Debt recovery by councils, authorities or government, eg:
  • Education sector
  • Health sector
  • Housing sector (current and former tenant arrears)
• Face-to-face debt recovery skills
• Late payment penalties and sanctions
• Letter writing for collections
• Liaison with sales regarding debtors
• Negotiation skills for debt collection
• Setting up an in-house collection ID
• Telephone collection skills
• Tracing elusive, absentee and ‘gone away’ debtors
• ‘Train the trainer’ for credit control / debt collection
• Understanding insolvency

Full details of any of these programmes are available on request.