Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
This course equips CPAs with vital business partnership, storytelling, and influencing skills to amplify their professional impact. Participants learn to seamlessly integrate these skills with their technical expertise. Key themes include fostering effective collaborations, practical and persuasive storytelling frameworks, and influencing strategies. The practical course teaches CPAs to elevate their ability to communicate, collaborate, and lead within their organizations.
There is a statistic from the Dale Carnegie institute that 85% of our success as business people and human beings are driven by our soft skills. CPAs can leverage their strong technical skills and increase their impact by growing their business partnership, storytelling and influencing skills.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Utilize practical approaches to building relationships with cross-functional and senior organizational team members.
- Understand the importance of developing a 360-degree understanding of the business to be a trusted and effective business partner.
- Use the ACE (Audience, Content, Execution) storytelling framework.
- Utilize the ‘What,’ ‘Now What,’ ‘So What’ framework.
- Increase their influence within their organization.
Who Will Benefit
This course is ideal for CPAs who have strong technical skills and want to improve their soft skills, amplify influence, and build confidence in storytelling. Whether a novice or seasoned professional, participants will gain valuable insights for increasing their impact and advancing their careers.
How to Access the Course
This course is a live webinar. You must attend the live course to receive verifiable CPD hours. We recommend you join five minutes prior to the scheduled starting time.
Electronic material can be accessed one week prior to the course and should be downloaded in advance.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Ron Monteiro is a Finance & Business Professional with 15+ years of finance and FP&A experience, including VP of Finance at a Canadian beverage company. Ron earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto and has his CPA, CMA designations. Ron has worked at several top-tier companies, including Hitachi, Kraft Foods, and Campbell Soup. Ron facilitates training sessions for Clear Concept Inc. and is the lead facilitator for the high-performance team’s program. He is also a ‘Culturepreneur coach’ for Waterstone Human Capital. Ron has a deep understanding and passion for helping Finance and Accounting individuals develop world-class communication and presentation skills.