This Commercial Awareness Training Course aims to provide you with an understanding of how to influence decisions, focus on the critical business issues that affect your role and understand from a commercial viewpoint why certain decisions are made.

  • Know how to fully understand the market you operate in and identify future business opportunities
  • Understand how internal and external events impact on your business
  • Know the key stakeholders in the business and how to influence them
  • Understand why certain decisions are made in the business (why some get the green light and why others don’t)
  • Use a range of tools to make commercially focused decisions and arguments

Course Outline

  • What does the term commercial awareness mean
  • Why do you need to have more commercial awareness
  • What is strategic thinking and how does it fit in with commercial awareness
  • Understanding your business commercial and strategic plans