Effective Manager - Traits and Skills
2.00 Credits
Member Price $99
Non-Member Price $119
Overview
Many courses deal with leadership and manager skills. Whether you have held a management position for several years or are just transitioning to a manager role, you will find that becoming/remaining a good manager can often be an art rather than just a technical skill. It can be (and should be) a learning and an ever- evolving process.
Highlights
- Management
- Leadership
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
All professionals Finance Accounting Operations Management
Objectives
- Understand Traits vs. Skills
- Examine the variance between bad managers, good managers and great managers when evaluating traits, mastering skills, setting goal and traits of a good/great manager, and determining execution methods
- Identify Leader attributes
- Differentiate between the concept of amateurs versus professionals and application to the role of a manager
- Identify manager personal goal traits
- Identify team goal traits
- Examine how to transition to a manager
- Examine effective personal transition
- Examine effective team transition
- Complete a Self-Assessment tool
- Visit a case study
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Lynn Fountain, Sole Proprietor
Lynn Fountain, CGMA, CRMA, MBA, has over 30 years of experience in the business profession, which includes public and industry accounting and over 20 years within internal and external auditing combined. She is a nationally recognized trainer and speaker and also a published author. She is a subject matter expert and specializes in Internal Audit, Sarbanes-Oxley, Enterprise Risk Management, Fraud, Governance and Compliance. Ms. Fountain has held two Chief Audit Executive positions for international companies. She has also been instrumental in the establishment of ERM, Sarbanes-Oxley and Governance frameworks.
Ms. Fountain has developed and delivered leading edge training sessions on the new COSO framework and has assisted companies in identifying risk gap analysis in their individual processes. She currently executes two highly recognized e-workshops for the Institute of Internal Auditors, one on Fraud and the second on Ethics. Both workshops have incorporate aspects of COSO 2013.
Ms. Fountain is in the process of authoring a publication for the IIA Research Foundation on aspects of fraud auditing. The publication is due out in 2015. In addition, she has performed as an adjunct instructor for the School of Business for Grantham University and the School of Business at the University of Kansas. Ms. Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University in Kansas.
Non-Member Price $119
Member Price $99