Emotional Skills

Emotional Skills for Finance helps you build the emotional intelligence needed to thrive in a high-pressure, analytical environment. This course focuses on self-awareness, empathy, resilience, and communication—key skills that strengthen relationships, enhance team dynamics, and improve decision-making. Learn how to better understand yourself and others to become a more effective, influential finance professional.

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Workshop: Personal Awareness

Cultivate self-awareness as the foundation for personal and professional growth, gaining clarity on your strengths, weaknesses, values, and goals.

By completing introspective exercises and feedback mechanisms, you’ll deepen your understanding of yourself and enhance your ability to make informed decisions and manage interpersonal interactions effectively.

Workshop: Emotional Intelligence

Develop a deeper understanding of your own emotions and those of others, empowering you to navigate interpersonal dynamics with empathy and insight.

Through self-reflection and experiential learning, you’ll cultivate the emotional resilience and social skills to thrive in diverse workplaces.

Workshop: Assertiveness Skills

Learn to express your thoughts, feelings, and needs confidently and respectfully, while actively listening and maintaining healthy boundaries.

With practical scenarios and role-playing exercises, you’ll build the assertiveness skills necessary to advocate for yourself and others, navigate conflicts, and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

Course Testimonials

I attended the Assertiveness Skills session and overall the session went very well and I really enjoyed the interactive approach. Assertiveness is a wonderful soft skill to have. Anyone with a growth mindset should be able to hone it and develop it.

The GrowCFO courses on Personal Awareness, Emotional Intelligence and Assertiveness are highly relevant for today's finance leaders and an essential skill set for all members of the team looking to progress their careers. I thought Melanie Coeshott was an excellent presenter and facilitator, striking the right balance between delivery of good quality content and making time for group discussion. It was the group sessions and speaking with other attendees I think I most enjoyed, especially as there were diverse levels of experience, different roles and company contexts.

Overall, the sessions I attended were really good. They contained lots of relevant information which was clearly presented and set out in a way to easily understand. Further depth was provided with time given to reflect and share thoughts. The breakout groups were really helpful to get other perspectives and discuss together.

Good open discussions with a range of different people, from different industries with different styles of work/management. I found the presentational material on further reading, exercises and methods particularly helpful.

Course Overview

What we Cover:

Personal Awareness, Emotional Intelligence, Assertiveness Skills

The Challenges:

Busy workloads, diverse stakeholders, dominant stakeholders, lack of positive role models, lack of previous training or understanding in this area. Emotions and empathy are not traditionally associated with finance professionals.

The Barriers:

Misunderstandings and misinterpretations, lack of self-awareness, overcoming cultural barriers, working under pressure, resistance to feedback.

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of Emotional Skills, your finance team will excel in forging stronger connections, navigating challenges, and fostering a thriving collaborative dynamic. They will acquire essential skills in understanding others and empathising with them to handle complex interpersonal dynamics, and to cultivate robust relationships: crucial skills for success in a corporate finance environment.

Business Benefits:

Greater Collaboration, Better Decision-Making, Risk Mitigation, Value Creation

Course Facilitator

Melanie Coeshott

Lead Facilitator

Melanie is an award-winning career coach and mentor for finance professionals, recognized for her expertise and dedication. She is an ICAEW Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) and a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF).

Prerequisites: No Prerequisite knowledge is required to be successful in this course

Advanced Preparation: No advanced preparation is required

Program Level: Basic

Delivery Method: Group Live

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