6 Traits of Executive You: Communication Skills
What you'll learn
- Discover Ethos, Logos, & Pathos and recognize how to incorporate the principles of persuasion into every important message to initiate action and response.
- Explore how to connect with your audience using storytelling.
- Discover how to improve your writing skills and recognize how to write like a business journalist to express your opinions with tact and clarity.
- Explore ways to strengthen your presentation skills to get a standing ovation the next time you present to an audience.
Requirements
- Prerequisite Education: None.
- Prerequisite Experience: Managerial experience.
- Prerequisite Preparation: None
Description
Many financial professionals struggle with communicating in a way other non-financial people understand – one of the six traits of executive presence. This course is designed to grow the confidence, ambition, and strategic influencing skills of high potential financial professionals in business. The desired outcome is to speak and write with precision, clarity, and persuasion to convey important financial insights to those able to act and respond.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in business, management, finance, or related fields.
Instructors
Illumeo, incorporated in 2009, is revolutionizing the hide-bound world of corporate learning. Illumeo works with corporate professionals and organizations of all sizes to build the skills and capabilities that help everyone be an expert at their job.
Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Illumeo serves thousands of corporations and corporate professionals across Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing. The platform offers assessments, industry-benchmarked competency analyses, hundreds of expert-developed courses, collaborative tools, and the ability for companies to self-publish internal courses that promote institutional knowledge retention and dissemination.
Illumeo is the place for expertise management and we are dedicated to the proposition that everyone can be an expert at their job.
A financial executive and corporate director with a broad base of experience working as a financial leader, catalyst, operator and steward in a number of public and private companies operating in a broad array of industries, with a deep background as a financial, consulting, and accounting educator providing professional development services to Big 4 Public Accounting Firms, universities, and professional institutes.
Specialties:Leadership, finance, accounting, mergers and acquisitions, auditing, instructional design, facilitation and instruction, authoring, decision analysis
Jen is a dynamic, versatile financial professional with over 20 years of leadership experience. She is a many time CFO and senior executive who brings to the classroom a broad skill set and experience in all key facets of an organization including operations management, strategic planning, business development, finance, accounting, investor relations, human resources, and project management. Jen has a passion for making finance more attainable, whether its working to articulate strategy in a financial context or bringing clarity to financial communication. Jen’s career epitomizes the diverse experiences and roles that CPAs play in industry – from financial to operational leadership.