CFO Series: Become More Effective Webcast

Critical Thinking for Financial Professionals
What were they thinking? Why do business leaders sometimes make horrible decisions that severely damage themselves and their organizations? It is tempting to assume that a poor choice must be due to a leader’s incompetence, inexperience, bad character, or low intelligence – but such easily attributed factors aren’t the true cause when leaders blunder. In such situations, many turn to finance and accounting professionals for evaluation, answers, remedies, and solutions for improved future decision-making.

Effective Networking: Take Control of Your Career
It is not who you know, but who knows you. You land jobs, win clients, make sales, and get promotions based on your visibility within your company, industry, and business community. According to several studies, 70-75% of all new jobs are found through networking. Despite knowing that we should network, the prospect of talking to other people in a room full of total strangers or making new phone contacts may terrify us. This session will help you find the courage to network by preparing you for that phone contact or networking event. We’ll discuss what to say, how to say it and most importantly, why you will do your most effective networking when you listen a lot more than you talk.

The CFO’s Role in Compensation and Bonus Plans
For many organizations, compensation is the single most important cost category. This session will discuss why the CFO must involve themselves with compensation and benefit plan design and administration. This session will pay particular attention to bonus plans, covering plan design, administration and common plan features currently in use today.

MS Word: Advanced Features
Financial professionals are often Excel experts but are unaware of MS Word tools that can save time and make their written communications more professional looking and easier to read. This session covers tools you have never used and others you may not be using correctly.