Accenture Academy Leadership and Management SkillsProven, cost-effective solutions to rapidly advance your workforce’s leadership and management skills

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Organizations increasingly need their employees to act as trusted business partners across functions and to collaborate effectively with different parts of the organization.

Accenture Academy offers curricula that support functional professionals in improving their skills in a variety of leadership and management disciplines, from business planning and strategic thinking to operations and people development.

Many in-house learning departments struggle to meet such challenges. And most off-the-shelf learning offerings can touch only a portion of the overall need.

Accenture Academy is different. As a worldwide leader in innovative and effective learning solutions, we provide a blended, interactive and highly engaging learning environment that is tailored to your organization’s needs. Our courses are designed to help organizations develop leaders at all levels and achieve measurable business outcomes, and our learning professionals work with clients to keep learning plans aligned with changing strategies and business goals.

An extensive management-skills curriculum

Accenture Academy provides a leadership and management-skills curriculum that is based on up-to-date functional competency models and job frameworks with training targeted at empowering people to self-manage, manage teams and lead organizations. At the same time, our solutions are tailored to the specific needs of your organization, your talent and your strategic goals.

That means assessing your current management-skills inventory, analysing the gap between where your people are and where they need to be from a training perspective, and then matching customized learning plans to those needs.

The Accenture Academy curriculum covers the following leadership and management areas:

• Business Acumen: Acquiring the broad scope of skills that inform growth strategies, covering economic and business knowledge, corporate legal knowledge, International business issues and mergers and acquisitions.

• Professional Skills: Developing the skills necessary to measure, manage and raise personal and team performance levels, through communication and interpersonal skills, negotiation, strategic thinking, people development and change management.

The Accenture Academy curriculum covers the following

leadership and management areas:

Partnering and Engagement

Business Planning

Business Acumen

• Integrated Business Planning: Connecting the planning processes and functions across the enterprise to improve organizational alignment and financial performance, from business-driver analysis to operations planning and target setting.

• Partner and Stakeholder Engagement: Working with and establishing roles across the entire organization, with a specialist focus on business partnering and supply-chain stakeholder engagement.

Established track record – measurable results

Accenture Academy clients are realizing significant benefits in enhancing the specialty skills of their people, engaging top talent and improving organizational performance:

• A global leader in biopharmaceuticals with annual revenue of more than $51 billion and 78,000 employees worldwide used Accenture Academy to build its people’s skills in leadership and management, thereby improving the speed and quality of project delivery across the organization.

• Executives at the world’s largest discount retailer determined that company-wide skills in replenishment management were less advanced than those in other areas. The company’s response was to retain Accenture Academy to upskill selected employees in a wide range of inventory-management processes. The net effect is that the retailer has been able to build more sophisticated supplier relationships, make better decisions and identify even more ways to leverage supply-chain excellence to increase growth, profitability and competitive differentiation.

• A major US packaging company wanted to use its talent to build competitive advantage, reach new customers and expand markets. It partnered with Accenture Academy to build and deliver a talent-development program focused on improving leadership and management skills across a range of disciplines. The benefits of this new focus on talent management is clear, as identified skills gaps were closed by 28 percent in the first year alone. The investment is credited with helping the company meet and exceed its strategic goals in a challenging economic environment.

• Seeking a comprehensive and consistent approach to talent development, one of the world’s largest brewing companies turned to Accenture Academy to prepare its workforce for a major new technology implementation. By implementing a customized upskilling program covering all aspects of management – from supply and demand planning to inventory management – Accenture helped the firm dramatically improve its overall supply-chain management. By strengthening these capabilities, the brewer has also seen improvements in inventory management and working capital.

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Strategic thinking

People development

Negotiations

Leadership, management & teamwork

Communications & interpersonal

Change management

Professional skills

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A leader in enterprise learningAccenture is an acknowledged innovator in enterprise learning and has business, industry, training and technology skills that are unmatched in the marketplace. Accenture Academy delivers specialty skills content that is tightly aligned to competency models and job frameworks, so that learning programs meet real and relevant performance needs. Our “cross-training” methodology means that multiple learning experiences in relevant areas build upon and reinforce each other. Our engaging specialty skills curriculum is continuously refreshed with new content and is available on demand 24/7 — offering flexible access to learning for our clients around the world. With broad consulting, outsourcing and technology experience, Accenture can help your organization drive measurable improvements in the performance of your workforce — increasing the value it delivers to your entire organization.

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