The Job of the Chief Financial Officer in Today's Environment: Part 1 (Currently Unavailable)

Author: Miles Hutchinson

Identify core competencies of the CFO, your leadership style, and keys steps to building excellent communication skills.

Join us for a lively interactive series on the role of CFO. Discover the significant differences between the controller, treasurer, analyst and the CFO. Learn best practices to help you bridge the gap and catapult your career to the next level. Learn the techniques used by leading edge financial managers to be viewed as a key member of the top management team. From communication and leadership skills to raising capital and managing staff, customers, vendors, lenders and shareholders, this course will help ensure your success as you assume the role of CFO.

Bonus: Your registration entitles you to access to scores of important web links to help you better serve as a pivotal resource and informed decision influencer/maker in your organization.

Publication Date: March 2016

Designed For
Accounting Managers, Controllers and those who aspire to become the Chief Financial Officer.

Topics Covered

• Core competencies the CFO must possess to have a superior organizational impact
• Leadership styles
• Highlight the main steps to building excellent communication skills critical to the CFO role
• Six keys to leadership

Learning Objectives

• Identify, define and clarify the role of the Chief Financial Officer
• Recognize how to prepare to move into the position of CFO at a growing company and take it to the next level
• Identify how to full define the role of a CFO
• Describe the most important and highest rated skills rated by CFOs and Finance Directors
• Recognize the four quadrants of time management and which is considered the most important, but not urgent, by Stephen Covey
• Illustrate a strong case for moving from Controller to CFO of your organization
• Identify how to adapt your communications skills defined by the DISC personality profile
• Recognize the key requirement for becoming a CFO in business management
• Describe the most important professional qualification of a CFO
• Identify social and political attributes that would best apply to the role of CFO
• Recognize what type of candidate you would seek for in a potential CFO
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of 360-degree feedback to most effectively reveal your own blind spots
• Recognize how to avoid the major mistakes leaders make
• Describe the quadrants of time management you would want to master in order to best ensure success as a CFO
• Identify the most effective and beneficial use of a SWOT analysis when assessing whether the role of CFO is a suitable match for you
• Recognize what weaknesses to be aware of if your predominant personality type in the DISC personality

Level
Basic

Instructional Method
Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study
Business Management & Organization (2 hours)

Program Prerequisites
None

Advance Preparation
None