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title: Improving Your Business Acumen in Category Management
description: Sue Nicholls, CPSA helps improve business acumen and, ultimately, increase alignment with multi-functional teams and external customers by improving the strategic skills of people.
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# Improving Your Business Acumen in Category Management

Business acumen requires an understanding of finance, strategy, and decision-making. Most managers and employees, however, are responsible for specific areas, and they have little understanding of the impact their decisions have on other areas. In this course, we walk through a big picture perspective to help learners improve their business acumen and, ultimately, increase alignment with their multi-functional teams and external customers.

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## Learning Objectives

##### Learn how to align goals with each department.

##### Improve your business acumen by understanding the bigger picture and how each area is connected, impacting the whole. 

#### Your 12-month premium membership grants you access to ALL of the great resources, training, and webinars in our online training center, including:

- Comprehensive Category Management Glossary with 1,300+ terms, examples, and tools
- Resource Library with industry whitepapers and additional resources (regularly updated)
- E-Commerce Resource
- Hand-picked Industry News
- Accredited Training Full Course, “Category Management Overview,” including course resources to enhance learning and retention.
- 6 Skill-Building Live Webinars, approx. 60 minutes each, including topics such as:   
  *CatMan 2.0™ Introduction: What’s Changed?*  
  *Rocking Your Presentations in PowerPoint: Part 1*  
  *The Power of Shopper Insights: Why it’s important and what to do about it.*  
  *Rocking Your PowerPoint, Part 2*  
  *Developing Data Visualization Skills for Better Storytelling*
- 20+ Skill-Building Webinar Recordings from past live webinars, including these topics:  
  *Improving Your Business Acumen in Category Management*  
  *Ways to Identify Growth Opportunities In Your Business*  
  *Rocking Your Presentations in PowerPoint*  
  *Category Management in eCommerce*  
  *Moving to more strategic, fact-based presentations*  
  *What happened in 2018 and where are we headed in 2019?*

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