Simon Dawkins
Biography
SimonSimon has been running financial programmes and business simulations for over fifteen years. He manages a number of client relationships at Right Training and is well respected in every organisation where he delivers a breath of fresh air and financial awareness. His courses vary from practical, focused workshops around specific issues that a client may be facing, to the dynamic and interactive business simulation – Ready 4 Business, that he designed and developed.
Simon originally gained a degree in Mathematics followed by several years with KPMG as a Chartered Accountant, before seeing the light and using his excellent people skills to help others understand a sector shrouded in mystery. Simon has also been involved in training staff at the major merchant banks in preparation for their specialist professional exams.
His work has taken him to Hungary, China, France, Greece and Cyprus. He still hasn’t managed to get a tan though! He is married to Carol and has three lively children and lives in the outskirts of Cheshire where he can play his drums without annoying the neighbours!
Simon has worked with : Airbus, AXA, BAE Systems, Bircham Dyson Bell, British Airways, BUPA, Cadbury Schweppes, Clarke Willmott, Coface, DWF, Ernst & Young, First Group, HBOS, KPMG, Deloitte, The Post Office, Brit Insurance, Dickinson Dees, Hammonds, McDonalds, AstraZeneca, Royal Sun Alliance, Next, Thomas Eggar, Whitbread, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Specialisms
- Financial Awareness
- Financial Healthcheck
- Finance For Non-Financial Managers
- Ready 4 Business – An Exciting Business Simulation
- One To One Finance Coaching
Case Study
A law firm had tried all kinds of financial training to explain how their finances worked and to encourage fee earners to change behaviour in respect of invoicing, cash collection and time recording, to no avail. Following the Ready 4 Business simulation that Simon adapted for professional practices, the Finance Director reported a change in invoicing patterns and fee earners began to take more responsibility for the firms performance. Debtors fell, cash improved and profitability increased.
Courses
| Ready 4 Business: Dealing With the Economic Downturn | This is the best business simulation available in the marketplace and is designed for legal and accounting firms. Up to 24 people can take part over the course of a day to improve their financial decisions. |
| Fees And The Client Relationship | This is a programme that will reduce WIP and improve cash flows from each team involved in the programme. It is run for every fee earner with billing or cash collection involvement and consists of a series of half day workshops that identify the team’s performance and how this can be improved. |
| Financial Healthcheck | This is a brilliant way to quickly ensure everyone is on board with the key issues affecting your firm's financial future. It will focus on your critical health issues and get people to address them - fast! |
| Ready 4 Business | Finance Simulation | Finance Game | <p>This is the best business simulation available in the marketplace allowing up to 30 people to participate over the course of a day to improve their financial understanding and enable them to make decisions which will improve profit, cash flow and business success.</p> |
| All About Budgets - how they work and how to make the best of them | A bespoke finance programme will work out to be great value. The learning is tailored to your organisation so it is 100% relevant. Wht go to an open course when you can have excellent tailored financial training from just £145 per person? |
| How Managers Influence Financial Performance | A bespoke finance programme will work out to be great value. The learning is tailored to your organisation so it is 100% relevant. Wht go to an open course when you can have excellent tailored financial training from just £145 per person? |
| Understanding Activity Based Costing, Benchmarking and how to develop a Cost Reduction Tool Kit | A bespoke finance programme will work out to be great value. The learning is tailored to your organisation so it is 100% relevant. Why go to an open course when you can have excellent tailored financial training from just £145 per person? |
| Fee Negotiation For Fee Earners | This is a practical course specifically for lawyers who often fear that discussing fees will 'put off' clients. Delegates will learn a process to follow when negotiating their fees and challenge them to practice their skills and to ensure they are able to unfluence and negotiate at appropriate times. |
| Housing Assocation Simulation | How would you like to gain assurance that your green light status was secure? If you could engage with your senior management team and enable them to better understand the key issues and their importance to your Housing Association – what could they achieve? |
