Audit 503: Management - Being a Balanced Leader-Manager
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price $89.00
Non-Member Price $124.00
Overview
Management Skills - Exhibiting Traits of a Balanced Leader-Manager provides tips and techniques for striking the right balance between managing individuals and engagement teams and leading the overall strategic direction of a firm. Short-term profitability and long-term viability are important objectives of any successful organization. Note: This course is recommended as a part of a 16-hour audit skills curriculum for managers, while it is also appropriate for anyone who has responsibilities for leading or managing 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...
- Distinguish the difference between short-term management and long-term leadership
- Identify how to strike the right balance between leading individuals and teams towards both short-term and long-term objectives
- Determine how to adapt your own natural behaviors to enhance the likelihood of overall success for individuals and teams
Highlights
The major topics covered in this course include:
- Differentiating between managing and leading, while highlighting the importance of each
- Assessing your own natural management and leadership style
- Adapting management and leadership styles to the specific circumstances
- Becoming a catalyst for positive change
- Overcoming barriers to successfully managing and leading
- Successfully engaging in difficult conversations to minimize performance issues and conflict
Designed For
Accountants with both short-term management and long-term leadership responsibilities
Prerequisites
Experience supervising others
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