Audit 501: Personality Styles - Improving Your Interactions
Overview
Personality Styles - Adapting to Different Types of Personalities for Improved Relationships and Interactions provides guidance for effectively adapting to various personality styles. Every individual has a dominant personality style, which includes relevant strengths and weaknesses. Effective interactions require individuals to adapt behaviors to complement, balance or counteract the traits of others. Note: This course is recommended as a part of a 8-hour audit skills curriculum for managers, while it is also appropriate for anyone who has responsibilities for interacting with others. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Highlights
- Defining primary personality style characteristics
- Determining your own primary personality style and the style of others
- Effectively adapting for improving interactions with various personality styles
- Leveraging strengths and minimizing the negative impact of personality weaknesses
- Applying personality style analysis to real-life situations involving clients, staff, peers and superiors
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Accountants with responsibilities for effectively interacting with others
Objectives
After attending this presentation, you will be able to...
- Recognize four primary personality styles, including relative strengths and weaknesses
- Identify what traits you and others demonstrate
- List factors to consider to more effectively communicate and otherwise interact with others
- Recall best practices for modifying personal behaviors in appropriate circumstances to result in better situational outcomes with others
Preparation
None
Notice
This course is offered by a 3rd party vendor and will not be accessible in the My CPE Tracker section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by CPA Crossings.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Jennifer Louis, Emergent Solutions Group LLC
Jennifer F. Louis, CPA has over 25 years of experience in designing and instructing 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, where she focuses her energy on designing and delivering high-quality, practical and engaging accounting and auditing training. She was most recently Director of Audit Product Development at Surgent Professional Education, and prior to that served as Executive Vice President/Director of Training Services at AuditWatch, Inc., a highly-respected training and audit process consulting firm. Before joining AuditWatch, Jennifer was the Financial/Operational Audit Manager at AARP. At the start of her professional career, Jennifer was an Audit Manager for Deloitte & Touche LLP, where she frequently served as a local and national instructor. Jennifer graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA-Accounting. She currently resides in Charlotte, NC.
Non-Member Price $119.00
Member Price $89.00