Alla Volodina

 Corporate training sessions prove to be effective when they are properly planned and executed. The following is an outline of a well-structured training sessions that may help leaders and their staff to improve in running more effective meetings:   What is a good meeting and how much should be invested in making your meetings better? -           Definition of a good meeting and why productivity soars when meetings become efficient -           Review of the New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/guides/business/how-to-run-an-effective-meeting -           Review of the Harvard Business Review (Harvard University): https://hbr.org/1976/03/how-to-run-a-meeting   The importance of cancelling unnecessary meetings: -           How to identify unnecessary meetings -  ...

  Most leaders understand that corporate culture is important and some are still wondering whether their organization’s corporate culture is a positive one. The proposed outline can be used for training at corporate level at small and medium size organizations, including local colleges, schools and universities.  What is corporate culture and why is it important: - Review of the Harvard Business Review (Harvard University) article on corporate culture titled “The Leader’s Guide to Corporate Culture” :  https://hbr.org/2018/01/the-leaders-guide-to-corporate-culture  and Review of the following article titled “New York Times paints a grim picture of its own workplace culture”  https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/media/new-york-times-workplace-report/index.html - Corporate culture – the ever-evolving and ever-changing definition  - The importance of corporate culture and its impact on productivity, efficiency and effectiveness - Signs of good culture and how to ide...

  Studying for finance or business valuation exams? Make sure you cover the following topics in your studying!   -           Valuation methods: asset approach – going concern issue ( https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/goingconcern.asp ) , cost approach – going concern, earnings methods, market approaches -           Capitalized earnings approach – definition of maintainable earnings, multiplier and non-operating assets (for advanced courses, also review discounted cash flow model method) -           Users of financial statements and capital markets participants -           Types of investing and their advantages and disadvantages (growth investing versus value investing) -           Impact of interest rates on bond markets -   ...