CFO Program Online Course
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Module 1: Embed finance across the company5 Lessons
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Module 2: Identify profit and cash initiatives7 Lessons
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Module 3: Oversee and drive business change13 Lessons
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The CFO’s role in driving change
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Driving change across your business: Top tips from a finance leader
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How to encourage innovation across your workforce
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The emotional reaction to a change initiative
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Obtaining people’s buy-in
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Change management: Create a sense of urgency
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Change management: Build a guiding coalition
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Change management: Form a strategic vision
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Change management: Enlist a volunteer army
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Change management: Enable action by removing barriers
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Change management: Generate short term wins
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Change management: Sustain progress
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Change management: Embed the changes
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The CFO’s role in driving change
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Module 4: Deliver data-driven strategic insights6 Lessons
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Module 5: Challenge your Board and influence strategy9 Lessons
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Challenging your CEO and Board
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Challenging the board – A CFO’s perspective
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The CFO’s role in influencing strategy
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The five levers of influential CFOs
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Providing your unique perspective
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Demonstrating you are more than a numbers person
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Ensure that you are always consulted
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How to avoid being seen as the blocker
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Adding value: A CFO’s perspective
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Challenging your CEO and Board
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Module 6: Drive key decision-making11 Lessons
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The modern-day decision-making process
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Gathering the facts
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How Data Savvy is your Board?
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Using data to help business activities
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Support decision-making with data
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Express your opinion
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Communicating financial information to non-finance people
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Reading a situation
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Knowing when to compromise
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Managing conflict at Board level and beyond
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Driving a group consensus
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The modern-day decision-making process
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Module 7: Represent your business externally6 Lessons
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Module 8: Become a critical and influential voice5 Lessons
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Module 9: Deliver the business plan7 Lessons
There’s no doubt that the role of a CFO has changed dramatically over recent decades. With the advent of big data and technology, you now have access to more information than ever before. The CFO also has a unique perspective through a powerful combination of financial expertise, real-time performance data and knowledge of the bigger picture.
Today, CFOs are expected to be strategic partners to your CEOs, providing insights and analysis that help inform and shape business decisions. You must now not only be expert number-crunchers, but also strong communicators and strategic thinkers. You must be able to effectively articulate insights to both the CEO, the rest of the executive team and the wider business.
CFOs are in a fantastic position to support decision-making at all levels across your company, both at the strategic level and within the day-to-day implementation of the business plan. This requires you to contribute new ideas, influence opinions and back up your views with relevant data. You need to manage conflict during heated debates, read situations carefully and know when to compromise.
During this Module, we discuss the modern-day decision-making process in most dynamic businesses, how to develop a data savvy board and the CFO’s role in using data to drive business activities. We detail the CFO’s role in supporting and driving decisions, how to communicate financial information to non-finance people and how to navigate challenging conversations to reach strong outcomes.