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Monday, October 30, 2023 Live Webcast

Audit 503: Management - Being a Balanced Leader-Manager (X2-36962)

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
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Vendor Platform

2 CPE Credits in PD

OVERVIEW

Management Skills - Exhibiting Traits of a Balanced Leader-Manager provides tips and techniques for striking the right balance between managing individuals and engagement teams and leading the overall strategic direction of a firm. Short-term profitability and long-term viability are important objectives of any successful organization.

DESIGNED FOR

Accountants with both short-term management and long-term leadership responsibilities

BENEFITS

After attending this presentation, you will be able to...

  • Distinguish the difference between short-term management and long-term leadership
  • Identify how to strike the right balance between leading individuals and teams towards both short-term and long-term objectives
  • Determine how to adapt your own natural behaviors to enhance the likelihood of overall success for individuals and teams

HIGHLIGHTS

The major topics covered in this course include:

  • Differentiating between managing and leading, while highlighting the importance of each
  • Assessing your own natural management and leadership style
  • Adapting management and leadership styles to the specific circumstances
  • Becoming a catalyst for positive change
  • Overcoming barriers to successfully managing and leading
  • Successfully engaging in difficult conversations to minimize performance issues and conflict

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

Experience supervising others

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

INSTRUCTOR

Jennifer Louis

Jennifer F. Louis, CPA

President

Emergent Solutions Group

Jennifer F. Louis, CPA has over 25 years of experience in designing and instructing high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organization success. In 2003, she founded Emergent Solutions Group, LLC, where she focuses her energy on designing and delivering high-quality, practical, and engaging accounting and auditing training. She was most recently Director of Audit Product Development at Surgent Professional Education, and prior to that served as Executive Vice President/Director of Training Services at AuditWatch, Inc., a highly-respected training and audit process consulting firm. Before joining AuditWatch, Jennifer was the Financial/Operational Audit Manager at AARP. At the start of her professional career, Jennifer was an Audit Manager for Deloitte & Touche LLP, where she frequently served as a local and national instructor. Jennifer graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA-Accounting. Besides loving life on the lake with her husband in Charlotte, NC, she enjoys hiking with her little dog Frodo Beggins, and savoring any precious moments spent with her two young adult boys