This course is part of CPA Australia’s suite of Strategic Finance Business Partnering micro-credentialed courses. Successfully complete this course and assessment to receive a digital badge that you can share on LinkedIn and other social media platforms.
Description
About Strategic Finance Business Partnering
The Strategic Finance Business Partnering suite of micro-credentialed courses delivers future-focused knowledge and skills essential to management accountant roles operating in an increasingly dynamic and uncertain environment, along with guidance and strategies to improve financial leadership in a global environment.
About CPA Australia Micro-credentials
CPA Australia's Micro-credentials are based on technical and non-technical competencies and align to our Accounting and Finance Capability Framework. Our partner, Credly, will provide you with a digital badge on successful completion of the assessment. Your digital badge allows you to demonstrate your capability and achievement, and can be placed on your LinkedIn profile, digital CV or email signature.
About Strategic Communication and Influence
Finance professionals are expected to possess thorough technical expertise to aid reporting, financial analysis, decision-making and advisory capacities. This micro-credentialed course provides an emphasis on the soft skills that complement existing technical acumen to position finance professionals for success in their business partnering or value-add roles.
This course contains practical guidance for finance professionals and leaders on communicating to a broad range of stakeholders; negotiating and influencing techniques; performance management and leading high performing teams.
Featuring examples and real-world application provided by industry experts and financial leaders to embed the learning and bring the content to life, through this course you will gain the requisite tools and techniques that are increasingly important in modern finance roles.
This course features case studies from leading companies including Cotton-On, Nike, David Jones, Amazon, and OXFAM. It is highly interactive with activities, videos and simulations to keep you actively engaged and will focus on a broad range of industries.
Key topics
Building relationships through effective communication
- The importance of being a trusted advisor
- Communication with key stakeholders
- Preparing for conversations
Negotiation and influence for success
- Negotiation
- The five-step negotiation process
- Influencing
- Barriers to influence
- Key influencing styles and strategies
Strategic leadership
- Finding common ground
- High-performing teams
- The environment for team success
- Performance management
This course consists of one online course and one online assessment.
The assessment will be subject to security measures such as identification verification and webcam monitoring. Please ensure you read the Assessment and security policy and system requirements prior to making your purchase.
Learning objectives
- Deliver accurate, succinct and insightful financial and non-financial information to a range of diverse stakeholders.
- Use active listening and questioning to understand the unique requirements of a range of diverse stakeholders.
- Use a range of negotiating techniques to secure mutually beneficial agreements.
- Use different influencing strategies to build consensus, provide perspective and opinion.
- Understand underlying motivations, value differences of opinion and finding common ground to drive performance.
- Improving performance through the setting of clear goals, managing expectations, tracking progress and addressing performance issues.
Audience
This course is suitable for mid to senior professionals in management accounting, finance business partnering or similar roles.