Mastering the Six Traits of Executive You

Author: Blair Cook, Jennifer Ross Nicholson

Few financial professionals even consider the importance of building their executive presence and then they wonder why they don't have a seat or a voice at the executive boardroom table. In this series of six modules, you will learn how to elevate your own executive presence and achieve high levels of influence, leadership and make a strategic contribution inside your organization.

Publication Date: April 2021

Topics Covered

• Confidence
• Relationship Building
• Communication Skills
• Credible Leadership
• Personal Branding

Learning Objectives

• Recognize how to elevate your level of personal presence and confidence to deliver information with executive command
• Recognize how to establish strategic people networks across the organization and externally through stronger, deeper relationship building
• Recognize how to speak and write with precision, clarity, and persuasion to convey important financial insights to those able to act and respond
• Identify how to recruit, retain, and develop a strong team of financial professionals increasing the capabilities and capacity of the finance function to support the business
• Recognize how to strengthen your personal brand and consistently deliver on that brand promise each and every day
• Identify how to strengthen your personal brand and consistently deliver on that brand promise each and every day
• Identify behavior that is most likely to be displayed when you are feeling powerful
• Identify the most appropriate way to initiate discussion when meeting someone for the first time
• Describe which intelligence helps you best manage office politics
• Identify how illustration of how leadership differs from management
• Recognize how appearance matters to your personal brand

Level
Basic

Instructional Method
Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study
Personnel/HR (5 hours)

Program Prerequisites
None

Advance Preparation
None