Manuals

TITLE Controller to CFO: 11 Skills to Make the Trip
SUBTITLE Controllers learn the skills needed to become a world-class small business CFO
AUDIENCE Members in Industry
OBJECTIVE Transform yourself into to a top-notch CFO
LEARN

Here’s what you’ll learn in Gary’s Controller to CFO class:

  • Why isn’t the controller having the desired impact
     
  • How do you decide if you want to work for someone
     
  • How to get your staff to understand their impact on the bottom line
     
  • Situational leadership: how to use different ‘styles’ to accomplish what needs to get done
     
  • How to get employees to take bold risk and solve their own problems
     
  • How to ‘brand’ yourself to maximize your value
     
  • How to manage employee conflict, anger and emotions
     
  • How to cultivate finance talent from bottom to top
     
  • How to get that open CFO job
     
  • Learn to get customers, employees, vendors and management to trust you
     
  • How to use business intelligence to build the bottom line

Sample case studies:

  • 100-key adding machines vs. 10-key
     
  • K-Mart vs. Wal-Mart
     
  • DVD vs. VHS
     
  • Cell phones vs. land lines
SPECIAL Video of how Southwest Airlines went from startup to industry leader in just 30 short years.
BONUS Subscribe to Gary’s electronic newsletter on Fraud
HOURS 8 (can be customized from 1 to 8 hours)
LEVEL Advanced
ACRONYM CRO
FOR Public Practitioners, controllers, CFOs, CEOs, business owners
AREA MGT
PREREQ None
INSTRUCTOR Gary D. Zeune
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IN-HOUSE Mix and match topics to customize presentations for in-house and conferences