Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
LASAAC CIPFA Scottish Branch

 

Training for the elected members of the board

Increase YOUR effectiveness

Developing as professionals delivering sound public financial management and governance requires good interpersonal and influencing skills, leadership, and the ability to work as part of a team, as well as robust financial and accounting skills and knowledge.

We are also going through challenging times of constant change and individual success will be determined by how well we respond to change. This event will focus on building the individual skills needed in the public sector today.

The CIPFA Scotland "Increase your effectiveness" workshop will support individuals in developing as professionals in delivering sound public financial management and governance.

The workshop will help the individual to gain good interpersonal, influencing and leadership skills - improving the individual and thereby improving the effectiveness of the organisation.

Date: 3 & 4 November 2011

Venue: Dunblane Hydro

Cost:
£145 for students
£195 for members & non-members.

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This sponsored by Grant Thornton

What will I gain from this event?

  • The skills to become a high performing financial manager of the future, including presenting for impact, demonstrating leadership and building effective working relationships
  • An understanding of teams, including our individual contribution, and the need for diversity within teams, through exploring Myers Briggs Type Indicator
  • The importance of networking in career development and how to build networks
  • The impact of change for us and others, and how we manage transitions effectively
  • Opportunity to explore what personal resilience means to you, and seek to identify your personal resilience patterns and how you will remain resilient in an environment of constant challenge and change
  • Opportunity to identify how individual learning will be taken forward and shared back at the workplace


Event Programme:

Day 1 (3 November 2011)
1.30 pm

Registration
Unfinished Sentences:

  • This conference will be successful if...
  • What I hope to gain from this event is..
  • My concerns about this event are...
  • My participation in this event will be...
2.00 pm

Welcome & Outcomes

Reflection on the Unfinished sentences.
2.30 pm Understanding Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and identifying our profile
3.30 pm Break
4.00 pm What does our profile mean about how we relate to others, prefer to take information, make decisions and plan and organise our lives?
What does it mean for any team we are part of and how does difference both benefit and challenge team working?
5.30 pm Networking; it?s importance and how to build our networks
6.00 pm

Break

7.30 pm

Dinner


Day 2 (4 November 2011)
9 am

Brief review of day one
Change; how it impacts and how we manage transitions
 

9.45 am

Workshops
Choice of:

  1. Presenting to make an impact
  2. Leading through change
  3. Building partnership working between the accountant and the function/service they support. How we develop effective working relationships
10.00 am Break
11.15 am Workshops repeated
12.25 pm Lunch
1.15 pm Exploring resilience and recognising our patterns of resilience. Identifying how we build resilience and remain resourceful through stressful and changing times.
3.30 pm

Reflection on learning and how we will take it forward

4.00 pm

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