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Critical "Soft" Skills for CFOs and Controllers WEBCAST

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4.0 Credits

Member Price $129.00

Non-Member Price $159.00

Overview

Accounting and finance managers and executives must demonstrate sound soft skills necessary for personal growth and organizational success. This course will provide insights into the most critical personal skills for CFOs and Controllers - or those that want to be.

Highlights

Tips for being a balanced leader-manager. Adapting to various personality styles. Tips for coaching millennials and beyond. Best practices for managing organizational change.

Prerequisites

Experience as an accounting or financial manager

Designed For

Anyone who has a manager or executive leadership position in accounting of finance.

Objectives

Distinguish the traits of a manager vs. a leader. Recognize how to best interact and communicate with others. List tips for hiring and developing millennials and beyond. Recall change management best practices to lead entity initiatives.

Preparation

None.

Notice

None.

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Jennifer Louis, Surgent McCoy CPE LLC

Jennifer F. Louis, CPA has over 25 years of experience in designing and presenting high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical accounting, auditing, and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organizational success. She is the principal author of audit and attest related courses for Surgent and a frequent speaker at Surgent live programs and seminars. Ms. Louis is also the president of Emergent Solutions Group, LLC, a company she founded in 2003, dedicated to developing and delivering a wide variety of accounting and auditing training services, including audit staff training, audit productivity improvement, and value-added auditing. Prior to that, she was executive vice president/director of training services at AuditWatch, Inc. Before joining AuditWatch, Ms. Louis was the financial/operational internal audit manager at AARP. While at AARP, she served as one of their specially trained facilitators available as a resource throughout the organization for designing and leading strategic meetings and training sessions. Ms. Louis was also an audit manager for Deloitte and Touche, LLP. During her years in that firm’s Washington, D.C. office, she served as an instructor for the firm’s national “Train the Trainers” program. Ms. Louis graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA in accounting.

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Non-Member Price $159.00

Member Price $129.00