Leadership Skills for Accountants: Building High-Performance Teams

Overview: 

Leadership is the ongoing process of aligning people, processes and resources to drive business results. The model that best accomplishes this goal is based on a framework that both elevates individuals and holds them accountable for deliverables and ensures alignment to the customer. This seminar will help you:

  • Be an effective leader and stand out from the pack
  • Discover why some leaders fail and how to avoid potential pitfalls
  • Explore the crucial roles of team development: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing
Objective: 

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.

Emphasis: 
  • 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
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Prerequisite: 

None.

Preparation: 

No advance preparation required.

Level of Knowledge: 

Overview.

CPE Credit: 
8.00
NASBA Field of Study: 
Communications & Marketing