Making and communicating strategic decisions

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What is a virtual classroom?

A virtual classroom provides the same great learning experience as other ICAEW training, except one difference, you can learn from your desk.

Being delivered online makes it so much easier to access in a busy working week and would definitively recommend  this type of training. The breakout rooms work really well to allow you to get to know the other participants and share experiences.

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The focus is on the learner and creating an enriching classroom experience that connects participants globally. Using video, learners can converse and interact with the trainer and other learners in real-time. Whiteboards, break-out sessions, polls, screen-sharing, and interactive Q&A create an immersive learning experience.

I think the virtual training format using Zoom, and the survey features, and break out rooms, really works great. I had no problems engaging with the facilitator and felt he listened to what we said, and kept the pace of the content moving steadily.

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Matthew Harris BSc, FCA

Matthew is a qualified chartered accountant (FCA) with over 20 years of financial and management experience with engineering and manufacturing companies in the UK and the US. Matthew qualified as an accountant with Price Waterhouse before moving into industry, developing his career with BMW, Thames Water, American Water, Hanson and Costain Group. As well as traditional finance activities, Matthew has led business integrations, external audit tendering and an IPO process. Most recently, Matthew was Group Strategy & Risk Director for Costain, developing group strategy (including mergers and acquisitions) and risk management.

Matthew now works to assist organisations make their finance functions more strategic and customer-focused and the wider business understand their company finances and the role a modern finance function can play in supporting growth. Matthew’s experience includes developing and delivering face to face and online courses in:

· Understanding Business Finance
· Strategy development and communication
· Business partnering to drive business growth

Matthew has been a guest lecturer at the University of Warwick and is a facilitator for the strategy programmes of the ICAEW.

In 2019 Matthew wrote his first book: 100 + Top Tips for Understanding Business Finance.

Matthew is also a Non-Executive Director and Honorary Treasurer of Autistica, the UK’s leading autism research charity.

Our public course programme is deliberately structured to encourage delegates from different organisations to participate. However, if you have six or more delegates who require development in the same area, we are able to run a more cost-effective and much wider range of courses tailored specifically to your organisation.

These are ideal for organisations seeking hassle-free, flexible and cost-effective training delivered to multiple delegates at your location of choice. Whether we use our existing materials or develop new content for your business, our expertise lies in translating your requirements into a pragmatic, interactive training programme highly relevant to your people and organisation.

To discuss in-house training for your business please email Academy or call Louise Thomas on +44 (0)20 7920 8733.

"The team at ICAEW were excellent from the start. They took time to understand our strategic plan and growth aspirations and built a programme around this. We are starting to see the fruits of it already. One of the key factors in the programme's success is that each participant is given one-to-one coaching, enabling them to focus on their own development." Richard Baker, Partner, Crowe Clark Whitehill