Your First 100 Days As CFO (Or Any Strategic Role)
Blair Cook’s Formulate Your Gameplan In Just 1 Hour
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EdmontonPM
Mar 4
Online Course from Proformative – Recorded
Purchase the entire course – for $36 USD
Record it as 1.5 Category B PDUs
Presented by: Finance Learning Academy
Dedicated to helping professionals advance their careers.
Blair Covers A Lot Of Ground In This Course!
The Purchased Course Includes:
- Presentations, Competency Map, Knowledge Checks, Exam Questions
If you are in a new strategic role …
You will appreciate the ROI
Of taking this course!
This course packs into one hour “The Best” of what you need to know
to understand the challenges, and directions required
for your first 100 days in your new strategic role!
Few Resources Exist To Help You
With Your 1st 100 Days As PM!
Although this course is focused towards the Strategic role of the CFO, the information provided within this course is EXTREMELY VALUABLE for anyone taking a strategic/leadership role within an organization!
Project Managers & Change Managers will strongly benefit from this course! Much of the focus of the CFO Role that Blair describes is project driven and change management focused.
The aim of this course is to be able to align organizational vision to strategic initiatives – similar to the roles that PMs are in especially where the initiatives are PMO driven.
Throughout this course Blair Cook discusses all of the topics as “projects” to be undertaken – by the CFO function.
The concepts of this course are applicable to the CFO function (his expertise) and are applicable to Project Managers, Change Managers and PMOs in the “First 100 Days” of their new undertakings!
Level: Introductory Change Management & Strategic Alignment
- Advanced preparation, education or prerequisites are NOT REQUIRED.
In this course Blair will help you understand how to best get started in a new “Professionally Strategic Role”.
Whether this is your first appointment or perhaps you are transitioning to a new role at another organization, Blair will look at different approaches for your first 100 days.
Beginning with a profile of the modern CFO as the example, he will help you understand the leadership and direction you need to bring to the organization.
From there, Blair looks at team building principles and uses the examples of the finance function to help you understand how you can use proven tools to help assess the existing functions against best practices.
Blair will use a strategic approach to developing an overarching mission and value statement using the finance example, to bring context to specific action plans.
Again using the finance example, Blair shows how to structure the functions within the organization context to optimize and balance responsiveness to stakeholders with the need for control.
Finally, and most importantly Blair will look at change management principles to help you initiate your first major project in your new role.
Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Describe the competencies of the Strategic functions
- Using finance as an example the information presented is applicable to many of the strategic organizational functions that Project Managers & Change Managers perform.
- Assess the level of maturity of your organization
- Using finance as an example the information presented is applicable to assessing the level of maturity of your team.
- Learn what you need to build a high performance team
- Using finance as an example the information presented is applicable to building a high performance productive project or change management team.
- Build a strategic plan & learn how to create the “Right Conversations” to implement the plan.
- Using finance as an example the information presented is applicable to building a strategic plan aligned with organizational goals and the vision statement.
- This is very suitable for project or change management professionals especially as part of PMO functions.
- Build a structure that works
- How to balance off structure and control while getting closer to the operational activities.
- Understand basic Change Management Principles
- Excellent information on transitioning the organization for new growth.
Presenter: Blair Cook CA, CPA, MBA (LinkedIn profile @BlairCookCACPA) is a many-time CFO, corporate director, a sought after keynote speaker on business financials, and a passionate educator working with dozens of public/private companies; and professional bodies/post-secondary institutions across Canada. His career is divided between academic endeavors, such as developing the new certification program for CPA Canada, and supporting the corporate world at the highest levels.
Blair is a life-long learner who encourages continuing professional development. He observes and experiments with various financial and management theories in real world contexts and shares lessons learned to others who share a passion for developing financial leadership competency. If you can take the opportunity to hear Blair – Take it!
PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources
- 7.1 Plan Cost Management
- 7.3 Determine Budget
- 7.4 Control Costs
- 9.4 Manage Project Team
As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’
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