Finding Your Inner Extrovert: Communication Skills for Accounting Leaders

Speaker: Jennifer Elder

Format

Video

Level

Intermediate

Duration

75 min

Learn specific techniques in three critical areas: listening, writing, and presenting. Learn about the hard skills involved in the softer side of leadership.

£35.00 (CIMA members only)

£45.00

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Product information

Overview

In today's technology-driven world, success in business depends upon your ability to translate data into information, communicate with anyone, and present ideas powerfully, whether it's one on one or in the boardroom.

This fast-paced and interactive session covers specific techniques in three critical areas: listening, writing, and presenting. Learn about the hard skills involved in the softer side of leadership.

Topics discussed:

Communication skills
Translating data into understandable information

This is an online, audio course; it is also available as part of the CGMA Essentials. You will have 12 months from date of purchase to access this course, making it easy to fit around your work and personal commitments.

Who should take this course?

CGMA designation holders
Accountants
Consultants
Tax advisers
Auditors
Other financial managers with not-for-profit clients, NFP financial executives, including CFOs, CEOs/executive directors, controllers, and directors of finance

Professional development

All learning resources available in the CGMA Store qualify for CPD for CIMA members.

Prerequisites:	None
Programme level:	Intermediate
Duration:	75 min
Format:	Video
Access:	This is a digital product. You will have access to the content for a year after purchase date.

Return and refund policy

£35.00 (CIMA members only)

£45.00

VAT calculated on checkout

Speaker

Jennifer Elder
Jennifer Elder specializes in making the financially complicated simple, awesomely simple. She has seen all sides of the accounting profession starting in public accounting, was an Accounting Department Chair, and CFO in the private sector. She has worked in manufacturing and distribution, residential construction and development, software development, and angel investing. She is also involved in non-profits, sitting on the Board of Directors of Rude Ranch Animal Rescue.

Jennifer is currently President of The Sustainable CFO, helping business owners, executives, and CPAs enhance their success skills and find that elusive work-life balance. She also assists businesses in developing a strategy for integrating sustainability into strategic plans and day-to-day operations. In addition, Jennifer teaches finance at Antioch University New England, is a trainer with the AICPA and Business Learning Institute, and is a contributing writer for TriplePundit.

When it comes to instruction, Jennifer believes that in order for training to be effective it must be: approachable, applicable, interactive, and interesting. She focuses on finding the essence of a topic, explaining so that it can be understood at all levels, illustrates with real-life examples, creates opportunities to apply the knowledge, and does it with an infectious enthusiasm. Her goal is to ensure that everyone walks away with something they can use and apply immediately.

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