Influencing in Finance: Asserting yourself as a Business Partner [M491]

    Understanding and implementing

    Target audience

    - Internal auditors
    - Accountants
    - Consolidators
    - Controllers
    - Financial managers and controllers
    - Finance, consolidation and accounting managers

    2 day

    Soft skills Business Partner training

    Prerequisites

    No special prerequisites are required.

    Objectives

    Know how to identify and adopt best practices and postures that improve dialogue with operational staff and boost performance

    Contents

    > What do you expect from a Business Partner ?

    - Be aware of changes in the profession
    - Recognizing key skills

    > Identify your contact's profile

    - Knowing yourself to better manage yourself
    - Knowing others to better manage your relationships

    > Adapt your communication

    - Develop active listening skills and identify expectations

    - Apply root cause analysis methods (5Why and 6M)

    > Influencing and persuading

    - Building a structured argument to convince
    - 3 postures to adopt to influence (without authority)
    - Make original and powerful suggestions
    - Contribute to decision-making
    - Convey a positive image of the finance function

    > Assert yourself in all circumstances

    - Dealing with objections
    - Managing conflict and tension

    > Supporting change and managing continuous progress

    - Identifying the obstacles to change

    - Adopting the right posture at every stage of change

    > Summary: your commitments and your Personal Action Plan

    Why choose this course?

    This training course is designed to reinforce Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and management dialogue. It covers, in the form of workshops, the behavioral aspects required to act as a Business Partner. Soft skills training is often perceived as too theoretical or abstract. We offer you practical sessions led by business professionals who have lived through these situations and share their experience.

    Teaching and assessment methods

    Before : documentary input.

    During the session: alternating theoretical developments, illustrations and case studies. Several role-playing exercises. Participants are invited to transpose the techniques to their own business situations.
    They leave the workshop with their own poster presenting their action plan.

    After the event: The trainer is available to answer any questions relating to the training.

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    Price

    1,860 EXCL.

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