Curriculum

Globecon organizes its content into six practice areas that are both wide and deep.  For a quick list of some of the many programs and courses we offer, you can click here.  Overview information about each practice area follows:

Capital Markets -- Globecon’s capital markets program focuses on the structuring, pricing, trading and distribution of debt and equity securities and their counterparts in the derivatives markets. Programs range from entry level to highly technical, and participants include product specialists, analysts, book managers, traders, salespeople, IT developers and middle/back office.

Corporate Finance -- Globecon’s corporate finance program helps financiers focus on the financial strategies that best support the client’s business objectives and increase the market value of the client company. By analyzing actual companies using Globecon’s Financial Structure and Strategy Framework, participants build a range of capital-raising, risk management and restructuring activities into a powerful, customized relationship plan that drives a stream of profitable transactions over time.

Credit & Banking – Globecon’s credit & banking programs focus on traditional credit analysis, specialized credit products, credit portfolio management and the needs of bankers dealing with institutional clientele.

Infrastructure & Operations - The Infrastructure & Operations practice area contains competencies intended to help non-financial employees make sense of the banking industry, their own institution and the needs of their line clients.

Risk Management -- Globecon’s risk management program is designed to help analysts, traders and portfolio managers manage risk while maximizing returns across the full range of market conditions. Asset management programs focus on determining investor objectives, setting goals, creating policies, choosing among assets, tracking performance and analyzing returns.

Wealth Management -- Globecon’s wealth management program is designed to help analysts, traders and portfolio managers manage risk while maximizing returns across the full range of market conditions. Wealth management programs focus on determining investor objectives, setting goals, creating policies, choosing among assets, tracking performance and analyzing returns.

While these practice areas enable us to cover the full range of needs for competency based education, we also provide a full range of test preparation, certifications and CPE programs, as well as soft-skills training, as follows:

Test Prep, Certification and Continuing Education Credits -- Globecon has developed specific certification and continuing education workshops, web-based seminars, and models within Fintranet for an array of licenses, charters and certifications that can be used to meet certification and CPE maintenance requirements.  Globecon works with each sanctioning body of professional credentials to ensure that the model meets that organization's requirements.  Current offerings include continuing education for: Certified Financial Planners (CFP); Certified Public Accountants (CPA); Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) and Financial Risk Managers (FRM).

SOLID Soft Skills -- Programs in this area focus on the development of leadership, communication and consultative sales skills, and the integration of these skills with a wide range of relationship management competencies. This curriculum leverages Globecon’s existing methodologies for relationship management development and hard financial services knowledge across a wider spectrum. SOLID Soft Skills emphasize both professional and individual development and is flexible enough to be widely applied in areas ranging from consultative selling, account management activities and leadership skills such as managing conflict and shepherding organizational change.  The four components of SOLID skills are: self awareness, self-management, relationship awareness and relationship management. More information about these programs will be made available shortly.

All of Globecon’s programs and course materials are available online via Fintranet^® and Webinars (web-based seminars) as well as via instructor-led workshops and printed materials.

Globecon’s programs and learning systems can be tailored to respond to specific business, division and line demands. To find out how a customized solution can be designed from Globecon’s curricula to meet your organization’s professional development needs, please contact us.