Leading a Finance Team – Developing Effective and Motivating Leadership Within Finance Teams [FHEFIN]
  • Assertiveness & control of emotions - Assertiveness & control of emotions / stress management - Know your deepest motivations and obstacles - Understand and manage your emotions
  • Collaboration and relational management - Collaborative logic and relational management - Ability to decipher non-verbal language - Ability to convey meaning, to be a pedagogue - Ability to engage in dialogue and share an analysis - Ability to argue in adversarial debate - Ability to challenge, formulate convictions and sound the alarm
  • Communication, conviction - Communication & conviction in finance - Listening & discernment - Value-added analytical skills, ability to synthesize - Complex environments - Weak signals and meaning, in a context of infobesity - Ability to reconcile conflicting interests and manage dilemmas - Stepping back and crisis situations - Strategic thinking
  • Operational flows and processes -
  • Gestion des compétences financières - "Finance professions, Competencies and macro-competencies, Missions and key activities, Skills assessment, levels: basic knowledge (declarative), standardized application in context, complex application in context, expertise (ability to share and evolve knowledge), Career paths and development.

Improvement

Target audience

- Financial managers and controllers
- Finance, consolidation and accounting managers

2 day

Finance Manager training

Prerequisites

No prior knowledge is required.

Objectives

◗ Identify your management style to adapt your leadership approach.

◗ Adapt your management style to the specific needs of your teams.

◗ Develop your team's skills and career paths.

◗ Adopt approaches that foster dialogue, cooperation, and buy-in.

Training program

◗ Defining the role of the financier

– Recognize changes in the role of the finance professional
– Identify the scope of the finance professional’s responsibilities
– Develop a framework for financial competencies and key responsibilities
– Explore the various aspects of the finance professional’s role
✔ UNDERSTAND | Key approaches for finance professionals
✔ EXPERIMENT | Positioning grid

◗ Managing and evaluating your team

– Identify your dominant leadership style and adapt your management approach
– Argue, influence, and persuade
– Set relevant goals
– Evaluate performance individually and collectively
✔ APPLY | Practical exercise: Formulating SMART goals
✔ UNDERSTAND | Example evaluation grid
✔ PRACTICE | Group discussion: “Conducting an effective performance review”

◗ Developing talent

– Supporting skill development
– Defining career paths and identifying training needs
✔ UNDERSTAND | Skill development paths

◗ Adapt your communication to mobilize your team

– Get to know yourself better to adapt more effectively
– Identify your employees’ profiles to better tailor your communication style
– Pitfalls and traps to avoid
✔ UNDERSTAND | Group brainstorming: “Why do we communicate?”
✔ EXPERIMENT | Self-assessment questionnaire
✔ APPLY | Analysis of different profiles

◗ Supporting change

– Identify barriers to change
– Support employees at every stage of the change process
– Address objections and assert yourself in tense situations
✔ UNDERSTAND | Group discussions and plenary session
✔ UNDERSTAND | Sharing experiences

Why choose this course?

The role of a manager cannot be improvised, and finance teams have their own unique characteristics. Technical expertise alone is not enough to gain the support and engagement of your employees.

This training helps participants identify the attitudes and actions that foster active cooperation.

It teaches you how to apply simple management techniques and methods that are useful in high-stakes situations for you or your employees.

We offer you practical sessions led by company professionals who have lived through these situations and share their experience.

Teaching and assessment methods

Before the training: Submit your expectations via your online portal 15 days before the training begins and complete a self-assessment of your skills.

Teaching Methods: A variety of methods to cater to different learning styles, encourage active participation, and reinforce learning through experimentation and practice.

Educational materials: presentation materials, reference materials (summary sheets, tables, etc.), and other resources available in your account.

During the training: a mix of theoretical concepts and examples drawn from real-life cases. Participants are given the opportunity to engage in role-playing exercises. Numerous practical exercises allow participants to demonstrate their mastery of the skills as the training progresses.

Monitoring and evaluation: attendance sheet and certificate of completion. Immediate and post-training evaluations conducted using the LearnEval platform.

Price

1,860 EXCL.

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Finance Manager training

Finance Manager training

Finance Manager training

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