Audit 408: Coaching Staff to Stay on the Right Track
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price $89.00
Non-Member Price $124.00
Overview
Supervisor Skills - Coaching Staff to Stay on the Right Track provides tips and techniques for critical coaching responsibilities. Being a successful coach requires tackling various responsibilities, including motivating, providing positive and constructive feedback, and otherwise getting the best performance out of engagement team members in the given situation. Note: This course is recommended as a part of a 16-hour audit skills curriculum for supervisory or managerial auditors, while it is also appropriate for anyone who has responsibilities for coaching others. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Objectives
After attending this presentation, you will be able to...
- Identify how to motivate teams for engagement success
- Recall the appropriate use of different coaching styles appropriately matched to the circumstances
- Recognize a process for engaging in difficult conversations
- Identify a process for giving constructive feedback and creating professional development plans
Highlights
The major topics covered in this course include:
- Different ways to appropriately motivate others for performance, including nonmonetary awards
- Modifying coaching style to the various specific situation, considering both task and relationship factors to give staff the support they need for success
- Tips for engaging in difficult conversations with others, including staff, peers, supervisors and clients
- Giving constructive negative feedback to staff, including creating an action plan for improvement
Designed For
Accountants with responsibilities for coaching staff for higher performance on audit engagements
Prerequisites
None
Preparation
None
Notice
You will receive an email from CPA Crossings via Webex with instructions to access the webinar.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Jennifer Louis, Surgent McCoy CPE, LLC
Jennifer F. Louis, CPA has over 19 years of experience in designing and presenting high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organizational success. In 2003, she founded Emergent Solutions Group, LLC, a company dedicated to developing and delivering accounting and auditing training services. She was most recently executive vice president/director of training services at AuditWatch, Inc., a highly respected training and consulting firm serving the audit profession. During her six years at AuditWatch, Ms. Louis served in many other capacities, including vice president of product development, and a consultant for the firm’s Audit Productivity Improvement Program TM. She also coauthored a manual on value-added auditing. Before joining AuditWatch, Ms. Louis was the financial/operational 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.
Non-Member Price $124.00
Member Price $89.00