Audit 503: Management - Being a Balanced Leader-Manager
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.
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
Prerequisites
Experience supervising others
Designed For
Accountants with both short-term management and long-term leadership responsibilities
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
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