Your professional presence affects how colleagues, subordinates, superiors, clients, and potential clients react to you, respect you, trust you, and respond to you. Leadership is enhanced by professional presence. This on-demand course reviews skills that enhance one’s professional presence and offers tips for building that presence.
Publication Date: March 2021
Designed For
Those seeking to enhance personal and professional skills and develop a plan for improvement to help advance their leadership skills, improve relationships with clients and others, and increase confidence.
Topics Covered
- Relevance of professional presence
- Defining professional presence
- Assessing your professional presence
- Improving your professional presence
- To develop a plan for building your professional presence
Learning Objectives
- Identify skills and traits that enhance professional presence
- Identify how personalized leadership is characterized
- Differentiate intrapersonal and interpersonal skills
- Identify soft skills (empowerment skills) and their importance to your professional presence
- Describe the "pushing your chair" analogy
- Recognize which questions are most appropriate to ask yourself to assess your strengths and weaknesses
- Recognize how to create a plan for enhancing your professional presence
Level
Basic
Instructional Method
Self-Study
NASBA Field of Study
Personnel/HR (2 hours)
Program Prerequisites
None
Advance Preparation
None
Instructor
Annette Nellen
Annette Nellen, CPA, CGMA, Esq., is a professor in and director of San Jose State University's graduate tax program (MST), teaching courses in tax research, accounting methods, property transactions, advanced individual taxation, employment tax, ethics, leadership, and tax policy.
Annette chairs the AICPA Digital Assets Tax Task Force and serves on the AICPA Disaster Relief Tax Task Force. She formerly served on the AICPA Tax Executive Committee, including 2.5 years as chair. She was the lead author of the AICPA tax policy concept statement #1, Guiding Principles of Good Tax Policy: A Framework for Evaluating Tax Proposals (2001, updated 2017), still in use today. Annette is also active with the tax sections of the ABA, CalCPA and California Lawyers Association. Annette is the recipient of the 2013 Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award given by the Tax Division of the AICPA, the highest award given by the accounting profession in the area of taxation. In 2019, Annette was the recipient of the CLA’s Benjamin F. Miller Award for outstanding achievement and contribution in the field of state and local taxation law. Annette was included in Accounting Today's 2024 List of the Most Influential People in Accounting.
Annette is a regular contributor to Tax Notes State, authoring a column called Moving Forward? She is the author of Bloomberg BNA Tax Portfolio #533, Amortization of Intangibles. She is co-author and co-editor of four tax textbooks from Cengage. Annette has testified before the House Ways & Means Committee, Senate Finance Committee, California Assembly Revenue & Taxation Committee, and tax reform commissions and committees on various aspects of federal and state tax reform. She maintains the 21st Century Taxation website and blog (www.21stcenturytaxation.com). Prior to joining SJSU in 1990, Annette was with Ernst & Young and the IRS.