Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers and Investment Decision-Making

A senior-level treatment of finance for non-financial managers, focused on what changes outcomes.

📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Teams read what their leaders tolerate on finance for non-financial managers far more accurately than what their leaders announce. The hardest part of non-financial managers is rarely deciding — it is holding the decision when it becomes unpopular. The level assumes working familiarity with the management team but no prior formal training in this area of organisational leadership. Across sectors, teams that rehearse finance for non-financial managers outperform teams that only plan it. Every module pairs a short input on this aspect of organisational leadership with structured practice on the participant's own material. What blocks progress on non-financial managers is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on finance for non-financial managers and revise it on evidence. The course gives participants a defensible structure for non-financial managers and the judgement to adapt it. The programme closes with an action plan for the practice within organisational leadership that each participant writes for their own organisation.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Document decisions about finance for non-financial managers in a form that remains useful after the people change.

02

Protect the team's capacity so non-financial managers is not delivered through exhaustion.

03

Set direction on finance for non-financial managers that people can act on without further interpretation.

04

Manage the emotional load non-financial managers places on you and on the team.

05

Build the internal capability for finance for non-financial managers rather than depending on external support indefinitely.

06

Judge when to escalate non-financial managers and when to absorb it.

07

Select indicators that show whether finance for non-financial managers is improving, and reject those that only look useful.

Who Should Attend

01

Consultants coaching leadership teams on finance for non-financial managers.

02

Public sector managers applying non-financial managers within institutional constraints.

03

Officers preparing reports on finance for non-financial managers for boards or oversight committees.

04

Staff seconded into improvement work on non-financial managers.

05

High-potential staff being prepared for wider responsibility for finance for non-financial managers.

06

Board members and non-executives overseeing non-financial managers.

Course Modules

01

Finance for non-financial managers: influence across functions you do not control

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The meeting that finally unblocks finance for non-financial managers

  • Decide what you will delegate on finance for non-financial managers and what you will not, and say why.
  • Review a past decision on non-financial managers and state honestly what you would change.
  • Set out how exceptions to finance for non-financial managers are requested and approved.
  • Verify six months later that changes to non-financial managers have held.

Session 2Applying the standard on non-financial managers to your best performer

  • Identify the conversation about finance for non-financial managers you have been postponing, and schedule it.
  • Check whether incentives anywhere reward behaviour that undermines non-financial managers.
  • Define acceptance criteria for finance for non-financial managers in advance.
  • Identify which function can quietly block non-financial managers and address it directly.
02

Non-financial managers: measuring whether leadership actually changed anything

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Comparing non-financial managers with recognised practice

  • Set escalation thresholds for finance for non-financial managers that work out of hours.
  • Name a single owner for each element of non-financial managers.
  • Arrange the handover of finance for non-financial managers so capability survives staff changes.
  • State the outcome expected from non-financial managers in a single sentence anyone can repeat.

Session 2Reading the room before proposing non-financial managers

  • Confirm that those complying with finance for non-financial managers understand why it exists.
  • Prepare how you will respond when non-financial managers is challenged publicly.
  • Prepare the summary of finance for non-financial managers that senior management will read.
  • Identify where judgement in non-financial managers is legitimate and where it is not.
03

Non-financial managers: delegation, trust and accountability

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Building the method for non-financial managers step by step

  • Decide the point at which you would escalate finance for non-financial managers.
  • Identify single points of dependency in non-financial managers and reduce them.
  • Assess the workload finance for non-financial managers adds and what you will remove to make room.
  • Ask the team what they think is wrong with the plan for non-financial managers.

Session 2Building someone who can run finance for non-financial managers without you

  • Recognise publicly one person whose work on finance for non-financial managers went unnoticed.
  • Agree the standard on non-financial managers and confirm it applies to everyone.
  • Anticipate the objections finance for non-financial managers will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Map the handovers in non-financial managers between functions and secure them.
04

Non-financial managers: setting direction people can act on

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What to measure in non-financial managers and what to ignore

  • Close out actions on finance for non-financial managers rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Test whether the team can explain non-financial managers in their own words.
  • Confirm that the people affected by finance for non-financial managers heard it from you first.
  • Set the review interval for non-financial managers and who attends.

Session 2Deciding on non-financial managers when the information will never be complete

  • Identify your successor for finance for non-financial managers and the gap they need to close.
  • Review whether non-financial managers is aligned with the objectives of the management team.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when finance for non-financial managers underperforms.
  • Give one piece of specific feedback on non-financial managers within the week.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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