Catalogue

Description

Part 1: Management keys to success, leadership, continued improvement and self-management

This course will be an overview of:

• How to motivate today’s workers.
• The art of psychology and determine why people act as they do.
• How the most successful organizations try new and different ways of motivation.
• How to negotiate with others about change.
• How to implement certain things about ourselves that will cause that change.

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

• Identify old and the new-style methods of motivating employees including money, compensation systems, autonomy, mastery, and relevance.
• Recognize new leadership techniques, positions, and methods of problem solving.
• Calculate employee happiness using bench-marking to determine the most effective motivators.
• Differentiate between power negotiation and common goal negotiation.
• Apply management techniques to future personal and professional goals.

Part 2: Management keys to success: Hiring the best personalities

This course will be an overview of:

• How to hire the best people.
• How to train people to be their best.
• How to motivate to keep the best people.

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

• Identify the importance of strong hiring procedures.
• Differentiate between technical skills and people skills.
• Determine why each skill is important to an organization.
• Apply the four-step hiring process.
• Differentiate between the four personality types in the Social Stylessm Model.
• Identify a personality type in another person using the Social Stylessm Model.
• Define the concept of versatility and how it relates to group tension.

Part 3: Management keys to success: Culture and leadership

This course will be an overview of:

• Why some organizations are more successful than others.
• How a finance professional can best navigate the new-style organization and influence its success.
• How a finance professional can be more successful as an individual.

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

• Define old and new-style organizations.
• Define four different organizational cultures.
• Recognize which organizational culture is most effective in today’s culture.
• Differentiate between leadership and management styles and characteristics.
• Identify the advantages and disadvantages of management and leadership techniques.