FSL equips non-financial corporate managers with essential financial skills, enabling them to understand financial reports, make data-driven decisions and confidently communicate with finance teams.
FSL is tailored for experienced managers at the levels of Senior Manager, Director and above.
Whether your high potentials want to enhance their leadership capabilities or advance their careers, FSL provides practical, real-world learning that transforms finance from a complex subject into a powerful tool for business success.
THE FIVE ESSENTIAL FINANCIAL SKILLS
Toshi says: "While traditional finance training contains so much content that is 'nice-to-have', I've streamlined finance training for busy senior managers into the 'must-haves'. I've learned, after 34 years of training inside Fortune 100 corporations, your senior managers need these five very practical financial skills:"
1. How to align their strategies with their leaders’ financial objectives
2. How to plan their project to optimize its financial value
3. How to budget and forecast their program’s financial value added
4. How to report their initiative’s progress and course corrections
5. How to manage and communicate their accountability for commitments
“Toshi’s program is essential for R&D/Product Marketing teams to align and learn more about financial elements and language. He provides a working template for teams to gather their thoughts and ideas in a very well-organized flow. It allows teams to present to executive management why they need to invest in their programs.”
“Toshi’s program is connected to what we are doing in real life. He creates links between what I know, what happens in the business, and how I should articulate and communicate that to my management. I can make better decisions and actually connect to the way we are making decisions. I would definitely recommend the program both to my colleagues and to the company.”
“It was important for Longs to develop – at the director level and above – an understanding of how we make money and create value for our shareholders. Toshi’s program resulted in better day-to-day decision making, increased accountability, and improved collaboration among business units. I would absolutely recommend it to any organization.”
“I manage a team with a $250 million product line. I recommend Toshi’s program for people who manage product lines, who own P&Ls, and who forecast new revenue lines, because it helps them make better decisions, make better assumptions when they are forecasting, and balance value, risk and long-term growth.”
STREAMLINED TERMS AND TOOLS
Toshi says: "To be proficient at the five essential skills above, a senior non-financial managers does not need to learn hundreds of financial buzzwords. I've distilled the financial terms and tools a senior non-financial manager needs to know into this streamlined list:"
Value, Transaction, Annuity, Asset, Investment, Value Creation, Intangible Assets, Value Chain
Time Value of Money, Discounting, Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Return on Investment (ROI), Price-Earnings (P/E) Multiple
Budgeting, Forecasting, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Revenue, Expenses, Capital Expenditure (CAPEX), Uncertainty, Assumptions
Operating Cycle, Quarterly Review, Progress Reporting, Profit & Loss (P&L) Statement, Variance from Plan, Revised Forecast, Risks & Opportunities
“The primary impact of Toshi’s course is it creates greater alignment between teams, finance teams, lines of business in terms of really having a common language around projects and investments. And just being able to accelerate our efforts because of that common language. My newfound knowledge and language will really help to shape some really big decisions. In a business the size of mine, we’re talking millions of dollars of impact.”
“What I’ve learned in Toshi’s program, and what I find really reassuring and exciting, is that it’s all about numbers being a tool and a means to better decisions. What it has done for me is it’s given me a different vocabulary to be able to express the value that I bring and that my organization brings. It really has given me the language that I can now use to express that.”
“Toshi’s class helped everyone on my team to translate the expertise they already have in their non-financial areas (marketing, R&D) into the financial language that I need to make decisions and manage them. His class is absolutely essential to promote that thinking.”
“Toshi’s program has really made clear to me that I have a very direct impact on value in my business. It’s given me a lot of confidence that I can now apply this language of finance to drive value in a way that relates back to leadership, and the things that are important to them.”
FSL DELIVERY METHODOLOGY
Toshi says: "Now here's the challenge: How can financial training program ensure learning transfer and practical application? Otherwise, there is no ROI. Three imperatives: The training must be (1) directly relevant to their day-to-day, (2) streamlined, and (3) engaging. Based on three decades of experience, I've discovered this methodology:"
Practical training on how to utilize core financial language day-to-day
Streamlined and efficient for busy senior managers
Interactive virtual live meetings with online resources, readings, and videos
Application exercises, testing, certification
Year-round access to lead instructor
“Toshi’s teaching style is very energetic and dynamic. He is super excited about the topics and very knowledgeable. He relays a lot of personal experience, either from his roles in consulting or even real life experience to tie in reality to the concepts.”
“He's very empathetic. He understands what we go through when we come from a non-financial background. He can translate our language into finance language, I say this phrase and he turns it into finance or economic language. And then a-ha, it makes sense to me.”
“Toshi definitely embodies a passion and a vision for what he's trying to do, He doesn't (just) distill information. It’s almost like he instills and ignites imagination in his audience, which for me has been great. Again, it's not mathematics; it's about the art and the science behind it.”
“I think one of the things that's been amazing for me is that I felt like Toshi's talking directly to me and addressing all of my needs. But at the same time, as I look around the room, I see that people generally tend to look as if they feel the same way.”
“Toshi does a great job in really distilling it down to the essence of what you need to understand. And making sure that the concept is reinforced and I think that's what's really important. So I can try to get on the same playing field with my colleagues in finance.”
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