The Resilient Finance Professional

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Working in a finance and accounting environment often means facing a multitude of pressures. Explore how you can overcome these stresses and complicated tasks, and learn the methods needed for becoming a more resilient leader and team member.

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours

120 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

The Resilient Finance Professional

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours 120 days’ access
Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

The Resilient Finance Professional

This course is not currently available. To find out more, please get in touch.

This course will enable you to

  • Cope better with pressures and stresses by understanding the basics of resilience in a finance and accounting environment
  • Build a “Mindset Office” to help you deal with complicated and stressful tasks
  • Recognise the fundamental aspects of emotional intelligence that are necessary for achieving a resilient mindset
  • Identify the importance of resilience to both leadership and within a team

About the course

Successful accounting and finance professionals are able to cope with a multitude of pressures, difficulties and stresses both in and out of work. Maintaining a resilient mindset will enable you to cope with these pressures and stress, boost your performance and demonstrate greater consistency and leadership in your accounting or finance role.

This course explores the types and the importance of building resilience in a finance and accounting environment. You’ll discover the elements required to develop a resilient mindset, including the important role of emotional intelligence. Gain a better understanding of the role that resilience plays in leadership and team dynamics and the benefits it can provide to your organisation.

Contents

Resilience in a finance and accounting environment

Resilience explained
Defining resilience
Planning your time
Cause for concern
The importance of control
Resilience and influence
The importance of a resilient mindset
Experiencing stress
Resilience in a COVID world

The power of a resilient mindset

Defining a resilient mindset
The importance of mindset in an accounting role
Your Mindset Office
The importance of habits
Habit formation and resilience
The importance of rewards
Thinking about the future
Showing resilience

Emotional aspects of resilience

Emotional intelligence
EI and resilience
The importance of emotion
Becoming self-aware
Control the behaviour, accept the emotion
Problems that can arise
Emotion: The triple threat to resilience

Resilient leadership

Defining resilient leadership
Resilience and strong financial leadership
The Change Journey
Multiple resilience
Understanding assertiveness
How to achieve assertiveness
Resilient leadership in practice

Team resilience and working together

Resilience in a team environment
The final areas of the Mindset Office
Helpless and hopeless
The Victim Triangle
The Team Triangle
Understanding our thought patterns
Your line manager and the Triangle
The blame game
Developing resilience

How it works

Author

Ben Rawal

Ben Rawal

After a successful career as a head of internal audit, Ben changed tack to work with accountants, finance professionals and teams on their personal effectiveness. He is now a director and lead consultant with Aspire Consulting Solutions, a business supporting individuals and teams to improve overall organisational performance.