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Australian Finance Group (AFG) has revealed a new program for its top-performing brokers that involves an intensive three-day course in Sydney this September, delivered by Harvard Business School professor David Collis.
Dubbed the “AFG Academy” the brokers invited to attend are those who are managing growing businesses. The course is structured in the Harvard Business School case study method, which involves a hands-on intensive format that enables brokers to apply practical knowledge to their own business.
According to AFG CEO David Bailey, the commitment required to complete the course is high. With weeks of pre-reading and three days of on-site lectures, collaborative group sessions and intensive tasks, attendees will be expected to be challenged by the experience.
“I was fortunate enough to attend a corporate strategy management course at Harvard in 2017. That experience took me out of my comfort zone and really made me think differently about the AFG business. In addition, the quality of the lectures was like nothing I had ever experienced before,” said Bailey.
“Recognising it is not an opportunity our brokers would generally have the time to take up, AFG decided to bring some of that experience here and I am really proud to be able to offer the AFG Academy to a core group of our brokers,” he added.
According to his profile on Harvard’s website, Collis has been a professor at the business school for the past 30 years and is an expert on corporate strategy.
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