By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe how to assess personal and finance team strength and weaknesses
• Identify improvement opportunities for financial leadership and team development
• Develop an approach for process and system improvement opportunities
• Explain how to deliver and execute a plan for finance transformation
• Describe how to use SWOT analysis to help strategise
• Explain how to assess your business using the maturity model
• Describe the financial close process and how to improve it

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Define 'executive presence' and explain why it is important
• Outline the importance of communication skills in the workplace
• List the benefits of 'power posing'
• Outline the difference between management, leadership and social power
• Compare the 'leadership effect' and the 'CEO effect'
• Outline the five-step approach to developing a personal brand
• Describe how to build and maintain strong relationships at work and home
• Define 'deliberate practice' and 'nudging'

After completing this course you will be able to:

• Outline the use of the Edelman Trust Barometer
• Describe mirror neurons and the importance of recognizing our judgement traps
• Define rationalizations
• Discuss the IWK Health Centre scandal and the importance of ethics in business
• Compare and contrast the principle-driven approach and the prescriptive approach
• Outline a case study that exemplifies approaches to ethical issues
• Discuss the most common ways ethical lapses trickle into our judgement
• Describe the powerful nature of storytelling
• Work through a framework to resolve ethical issues
• List the benefits of ethical intelligence
• Outline how ethical intelligence can be embedded in corporate culture
• Describe corporate social responsibility
• Illustrate how Ethical lapses can occur in the likes of Wells Fargo

After completing this course you will be able to:

• List the most important principles of presenting
• Identify how to work with mind maps
• Outline how to avoid cognitive backlog
• Recognize how to create an opening that develops rapport
• Identify the 6 key qualities to make an idea stick in the audience's mind
• Define the modality and redundancy principles
• Identify how to create powerful powerpoint presentations
• Recognize how to incorporate the multimedia principle to create engaging presentations
• Discuss the use of charts to summarize numeric data
• Recognize how to work with videos and graphics to create appealing content
• Identify when to use transitions and animations to enhance presentations

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Discuss the roles of shareholders and directors within a company
• Explain financial statements to evaluate performance
• Compute return ratios
• Outline a financial strategy
• Outline the budgeting process
• Define forecasting and zero-factor budgeting
• Discuss finance and forecasting future cash flow
• Analyze variance and cost analysis statements to determine underlying performance issues