Profit & Cash Game

Business leaders manage by the numbers. It's an essential business discipline. Just think of the potential, however, if people in your company, especially front line supervisors and people who make your product or deliver your service to customers, had the same discipline—working and improving work by the numbers. Imagine a world in which they:

• Show genuine interest in the numbers because they think like owners.

• Know how to make sense of the story behind the numbers to improve productivity and increase customer service to grow the business.

• Better understood why and how leaders make company decisions.

Solution

Profit & Cash™ is an innovative, stimulating, fast moving board game that quickly builds financial insights. In it, interactive teams of six “run a company” to learn the financial implications of day-to-day business decisions and how to make sense of financial and operating reports that record the impact of decisions. The goal of the game is to reach specific financial objectives including profitability, cash and debt to equity ratio.

This approach takes the mystery out of learning basic business finance. Because of the highly effective hands-on approach people leave with learning that sticks.

How It Works

We work with you to customize a “front” and “back end” to the game so participants take back learning and apply it to get better results. For example, we create a part that looks at how your own numbers apply to the financial picture of your company and gives participants a chance to connect their goals to the financials. We can develop custom discussions of your financials and scorecards to teach very specific lessons to deal with pressing business issues.

We deliver a ½ to 1 day session that, at a high level, goes like this:

• Participants play the game that gives them a chance to experience the day-to-day transactions and make the kinds of decisions that impact overall business success.

• While they do so, they learn the basics of business finance and the learning is deep and practical. Rather than learning concepts in theory, participants internalize the connection between what happens at the everyday level to the impact on profit and cash. As they move money chips around on the board to register decisions they also record the impact on the financial statements making them intelligent users of the numbers.

• Participants discuss the trade-offs and implications of game decisions over time on business results and translate that learning to discussions about their own numbers and how their financials are used to make business decisions in line with strategy.

• The last step is to focus on how they can apply their increased financial insight to their jobs.

For more details and a way to link to an e-brochure go to Schuster Kane Alliance.