Leadership Skills for Accountants: Building High-Performance Teams Webinar

To help accountants develop the leadership skills to grow professionally and become effective members of a corporate team. Using group exercises to practice their skills, participants will learn how to set goals, identify and confront problems, develop solutions and foster team success.

• Effective vs. ineffective leadership
• Developing high-performance teams and working effectively with team members
• Different roles and responsibilities within a team
• Establishing teams
  – Collaborative and high performance
  – Heterogeneous team mindset
  – Harmony and efficiency model
• Core components of strategic development: human capital, finance/revenue, process and technology
• Differences between work groups, high-performance teams and virtual teams
• Manager as leader, developer, confronter and mentor
• Handling problem employees and employee problems
• Stakeholder valuation: understanding customers, partners and competitors

To help accountants develop the leadership skills to grow professionally and become effective members of a corporate team. Using group exercises to practice their skills, participants will learn how to set goals, identify and confront problems, develop solutions and foster team success.

DETAILED LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Recognize the characteristics of homogeneous and heterogeneous teams

• Identify the tendencies of group thinking

• Identify the phases in the development of a high-performance team

• Identify common team dysfunctions

• Identify the different types of analysis within strategic planning 

• Recognize the focus of a strategic planner 

• Recognize the primary goal of a SWOT analysis

• Recognize the analytical focuses of a SWOT analysis

• Recognize the operational opportunities of a SWOT analysis

• Recognize the various roles of performance coaching 

• Identify the emphasis of the relationship model of performance coaching 

• Identify the purposes of performance coaching 

• Identify the distinguishing characteristics of mentoring

• Identify the role of conflict in performance coaching 

• Recognize the consequences of the avoidance of conflict

• Recognize generational stereotypes and their implications in the workplace

• Recognize the steps in successful conflict resolution

• Identify the characteristics of active listeners

• Identify the characteristics of poor listening skills 

• Identify the best methodology for clarifying a conflict

• Recognize the steps in successful and collaborative problem solving

• Recognize unhealthy responses to conflict 

• Recognize characteristics least helpful in managing and resolving conflict 

• Recognize the characteristics of a skilled developer of employees 

• Recognize the characteristics of an effective development plan

• Recognize the results of the successful development of employees

• Identify the characteristics of knowledge, skills, behavior and attitude

• Identify the characteristics of a successful performance coach 

• Identify the characteristics of a perpetually motivated employee

• Identify the characteristics of successful leaders/leadership

• Recognize the role of mentoring in the workforce

• Recognize the characteristics of successful mentors

• Effective vs. ineffective leadership
• Developing high-performance teams and working effectively with team members
• Different roles and responsibilities within a team
• Establishing teams
  – Collaborative and high performance
  – Heterogeneous team mindset
  – Harmony and efficiency model
• Core components of strategic development: human capital, finance/revenue, process and technology
• Differences between work groups, high-performance teams and virtual teams
• Manager as leader, developer, confronter and mentor
• Handling problem employees and employee problems
• Stakeholder valuation: understanding customers, partners and competitors