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Team Management in Accounting and Finance

Adapting Managerial Posture to the Constraints of the Accounting and Finance Function

Being a manager within the accounting and finance function requires balancing team management, coordinating department activities, and driving performance as a Business Partner. Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to adapt their managerial posture to the profiles of their team members and the challenges of the accounting and finance function.

Learning Objectives

  • Analyze the challenges and key success factors related to managing an accounting and finance team

  • Drive team performance by activating relational and efficiency levers

  • Develop the individual effectiveness of accounting and finance function collaborators

Training Program

Analyzing the Challenges and Key Success Factors of Managing an Accounting and Finance Team

  • Assessing the strengths and resistances related to managing an accounting and finance department

  • Different managerial missions in relation to employee expectations

  • Listening skills to promote employee autonomy

  • Providing a secure framework for employees to legitimize control and management functions

  • Balancing the roles of expert and manager

  • Practical case: decoding 10 managerial situations using Porter's 6 listening attitudes grid

  • Evaluating relational interactions between the manager and the employee based on behavioral profiles

  • Managerial and employee styles

  • Motivational factors

  • Discomfort zones between profiles

  • Differentiation of manager and expert roles

  • Practical case: identifying one's manager/employee profile

Driving Team Performance by Activating Relational and Efficiency Levers

  • Communicating to motivate employees

  • "Knowing how to say" to transmit instructions assertively

  • Different types of recognition: conditional/unconditional, behavior or person-oriented

  • Managing recognition: accepting, giving, asking for, refusing

  • Feedback or feedforward

  • Role-play: practicing feedforward during an interim assessment interview with one of your employees

  • Team building

  • Managing difficult contexts, tension, or conflict

  • Revitalizing a team that is losing momentum

  • Integrating new members

  • Manager club: sharing a challenging management situation with a colleague and resolving it through collective intelligence

Developing the Individual Effectiveness of Accounting and Finance Function Collaborators

  • Managing the relationship and expectations towards the employee

  • Clear and motivating objectives

  • Monitoring progress and performance with relevant indicators

  • Delegating, valorizing, and empowering

  • Role-play: conducting a performance review meeting

  • Managing time pressure related to the accounting and finance function

  • Positioning the accounting and finance function in the organization to give meaning

  • Understanding employees' relationship with time

  • Time management between managerial and expert roles

  • Managing stress by identifying the emotions circuit

  • Pedagogical game: implementing strategies to manage the 5 time laws that pollute your time management

Transfer

  • Your training journey continues in your participant space. Log in to access resources, self-assess your acquired skills, and facilitate the implementation of your commitments in your professional context.

Key Strenghts

  • Methodological approach, case studies, role-plays, analysis, personalized diagnostics

Who Should Attend

  • Accounting Managers

  • Managers of the accounting and finance function

Prerequisites

  • Experience in management

Training Methods

  • Structured training program focused on skills transfer

  • Acquisition of operational skills through practice and experimentation

  • Collaborative learning during synchronous moments

  • Multi-stage learning path to engage, learn, and transfer

  • Training encouraging participant engagement for better anchoring of teachings

Satisfaction and Evaluation

  • Competence evaluation will be conducted throughout the training by the participant (self-assessment) and/or the trainer according to the training modalities.

  • Evaluation of the training action online on your participant space:

    • Immediately after the training to measure your satisfaction and perception of the evolution of your skills compared to the training objectives. With your consent, your overall rating and comments will be published on our website through Verified Reviews, a NF Service Certified solution.

    • 60 days after the training to validate the transfer of your skills in the workplace.

  • Attendance tracking and issuance of an individual training certificate or completion certificate.

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LONDON

128 City Road, EC1V 2NX London

PARIS

38 Rue Boulard, 75014, Paris

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