CFO - Management Superpowers

NEW EVENT

We all aspire to be great managers, perhaps even with management superpowers. We will discuss how, specifically what, you can do to improve your management skills? The best leaders have a never-ending passion to improve and acquire useful knowledge. Management skills can be learned, but only if one is willing to do the work. If you aspire to be a more valued, trusted, credible leader - these four sessions of two hours each will help you become a first-class manager. Learn what makes the best managers - the best.

This day of the CFO Series will focus on these four topics

• Five Management Superpowers
• Accepting Perfectionists: Understanding & Adapting
• Why You Should Be a Learnaholic: Staying Ahead!
• Advancing Your Role as a Business Leader

This event is part of ISCPA's 2024 CFO Series, designed to provide a convenient, one-stop way for senior level financial managers and executives, CFOs and those who aspire to be CFOs, to choose multiple days of CPE with a single decision. Each day consists of a subject-matter expert, leading discussions about four different topics. The CFO Series features high-quality presentations and an interactive, executive level, colleague-to-colleague approach with case studies, group discussions, and team exercises.

This CFO Day:

• To develop better management skills and leadership skills to enable teams to flourish.
• Learn effective methods to become a better manager.
• Understand the importance of earning trust, helping others, integrity and communicating.
• To recognize, accept, and understand the tendencies of perfectionists and gain an understanding of their strengths and areas where they may improve.
• Discover to get the most out of a perfectionist.
• Recognize the importance of being a continual learner.
• Understand your unique learning style, and what is necessary to become a learn-a-holic.
• Deepen your understanding of the importance of earning trust, helping others, integrity, relationships, and communicating.
• This day provides extensive case study analysis and many opportunities for group discussion.

This stand-alone event is also part of the 2024 ISCPA CFO Series, which is designed:

• With the needs of CFOs and senior financial managers in mind and is geared towards enhancing the skills you rely on.
• To provide Financial managers and CFOs with ideas which will improve their company's business processes.
• To make planning your 2024 CPE quick and easy - all 40 CPE credits in one convenient package!
• Registering for the entire series saves you up to $425! Click here to save

"Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could." - Steve Jobs.

We will discuss five key management strategies and skills that every successful manager has. We walk through the A-to-Z of effective management from the standpoint of self, team, and individuals. It is not enough to be a 'good' manager and excel in our field, we need to be more than the subject matter expert. The five management superpowers will bolster management skills for better leaders and is a proven path for those who desire to ascend the ranks to higher leadership. Leadership is a skill that can be learned, and you can learn how.

• How feedback becomes effective
• How to develop listening skills
• Cultivation of self, cultivation of team members as individuals, cultivation of team members as a group
• How to create a working environment in which team members feel acknowledged and "heard"
• Inspirational motivation for team success
• Relational communication skills that increase productivity
• The 'secret sauce' that holds communication and professional relationships together on the individual and team level in the short and long term

Objectives:

1. Develop better management skills and leadership skills to enable teams to flourish.
2. Learn effective methods to become a better manager.
3. Understand the importance of earning trust, helping others, integrity and communicating. 

You may know people who believe, "Good, is never good enough." They are sharp, driven, push themselves, have lofty standards, and may focus on the negative. They wear themselves out and others as well. Could they be a perfectionist? Perhaps we have some of these tendencies? We will discuss perfectionists from several perspectives and how to harness their skills to enhance results. Perfectionism is a mindset, not a disease. We will review actions to take so that perfectionists may learn how to transform their behaviors. Based on research and proven methods, we will discuss tactics that may help. If you know at least one perfectionist, this session will significantly help you and them.

• Why perfection is not obtainable
• The wonderful attributes of perfectionists
  • The not so wonderful attributes of perfectionists
• Why do most attempts to deal with perfectionists fail
  • What works
• Why many perfectionists are procrastinators and masters of self-punishment
• Tactics to help the perfectionist become more effective
  • Is the climb worth the view

Objectives:

1. To recognize, accept, and understand the tendencies of perfectionists.
2. Understand their strengths and areas where they may improve.
3. Learn how to get the most out of a perfectionist.

Successful people do know one secret that keeps them on top? The answer is - they are lifelong learners. It is a mindset and a way of life that they learned to utilize. You did not miss out, those not born with this ability have hope. This course provides quantifiable research to support that learn-a-holics (or lifetime learners) are clearly more successful, as well as practical actions on how you can stop being left behind and start getting ahead by adopting the habits and mindset of a lifelong learner. The crux is to expand your mind and expand your possibilities. This is the recipe for success you don't want to miss!

• The key mindset difference between extremely successful people and others
• Learning styles:
  • What they are, why they matter, and what your unique learning style is
• The seven essential elements for lifelong learning success
• Two daily habits that can make this lifestyle transition easier
• A learning technique that works regardless of your personal learning style
• "How-to" guide to starting your new life as a learn-a-holic

Objectives:

1. Recognize the importance of being a continual learner.
2. Understand your unique learning style, and what is necessary to become a learn-a-holic.

Knowing the numbers is a valued skill, but not nearly enough to make you a real business leader. True leaders put in the work and make sacrifices for others. Leadership is a learned skill, a skill that must be practiced. It may look simple, and it is - only if you know what to do and how to do it. Leadership requires one to develop a greater understanding of intangibles that are difficult to quantify - but are priceless. The best leaders care about others, are trustworthy and are credible. We will discuss proven tactics to enhance those skills. Worthy for those who want to become even more valuable as a business leader. 

• Leadership is earned, not given
• Leaders understand:
  • Human nature, Others and Themselves
• You have to care
• The need for better relationships, credibility, and trust
• Lessons from great leaders
• Steps to becoming a better leader

Objectives:

1. Improve your understanding of importance of earning trust, helping others, integrity, relationships, and communicating.

• Manual
  • If you did not purchase a printed manual, download it from your upcoming events in "My CPE" on website, and bring it with you
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