Each workshop qualifies for two credit hours of CPE and selected workshops are also available in a one-hour format. Workshop materials include a leader’s guide, a participant workbook, and PowerPoint Slides.

The leader's guide is a step-by-step guide for presenters. Each guide is complete with timetable, instructions for conducting exercises and additional information to be presented. Members of ASWA chapters or AWSCPA affiliates are encouraged to conduct these sessions.

Each person attending the workshop receives a copy of the Participants Workbook that provides the course outline, exercises, and points to remember.  A bibliography for those who want to do additional reading is also included. The presenting organization is responsible for making copies of the Participants Workbook for each person attending.

For ASWA and AWSCPA use, the Educational Foundation has determined that the cost of printing and distribution per workshop is $50, required in advance.  All contributions will be used to add new workshops, update existing workshops, and create new programs consistent with the mission of the Educational Foundation.

For business use and by organizations other than ASWA or AWSCPA, please contact EFWA National Headquarters for fee information.

A description of the current LTS workshops and a request form appear below.

Fourteen two-hour workshops are available on the following topics:

Management Styles

Identifies traits of successful leaders and provides the opportunity to learn about your own leadership styles. Teaches how to assess the type of leadership (directing, coaching, supporting or delegating) each employee needs. Through small group exercises, you evaluate an employee's supervision needs and learn how to give constructive feedback.

Goal Setting and Career Planning

By completing fact-finding exercises, you discover your life purpose and how that purpose affects your career goals. You will learn strategies to establish and clarify career goals and develop a plan to achieve these goals.

Dealing with Gender Bias

Explores issues central to the advancement of women in the workplace, and identifies strategies to counteract external (organization) barriers such as stereotyping and discrimination, and internal (personal) barriers such as patience, sensitivity, risk aversion and fear.

Presentation Skills*

Identifies characteristics of effective speakers and teaches skills for organizing a powerful presentation. It identifies ways to help you relax and feel comfortable, and how to engage your audience during your presentation.

Interpersonal Communications

Identifies personality types and communication styles (Intuitor, Sensor, Thinker, Feeler). You also learn how to identify your own style and those of others. Small groups explore the communication styles, their limitations and advantages, and how cooperation is gained. You learn how to communicate more effectively with those who have each communication style.

Male/Female Communication

Learn how gender socialization and personality preferences affect communication styles. Small group exercises will help develop your strategies for everyday use, along with seven guidelines to improve male/female communication.

Negotiating Conflict Situations*

Enables you to become comfortable with conflict by identifying the problems, the parties, and the process for resolution. Conflict styles--competition, accommodation, avoidance, compromise, and collaboration--are explained. Group exercises enable you to practice dealing with conflict and learn new strategies to change behavior.

Collaborative Skills: Building Effective Teams

Introduces you to the concept of collaboration defines and describes effective teams, and provides an opportunity to solve a problem in a group exercise. Characteristics of a collaborative environment are demonstrated. 'Me session closes with a commitment from you about a future action/ behavior.

Personal and Professional Balance*

Teaches you to recognize when you are "out of balance," and how to analyze the appropriate alignment between activities, goals and values. Relationships and support systems are also identified to enable you to get what you want out of life.

Facilitation Skills*

Teaches you to understand group behaviors and enables you to learn the skills needed to conduct workshops and lead meetings. With the use of large and small group discussion and role-playing, participants learn to be effective in a group meeting both as leaders and as members of the group.

Mentoring Relationships

Examines the mentoring relationship from the perspective of the mentor, the mentoree and the organization. The objectives are to define mentoring; to explore the steps to creating a relationship; to identify the career enhancement opportunities: to learn how to promote oneself; and to discuss the complexities of cross-gender mentoring.

Delegation Skills

Explores the art of delegating effectively and identifies the skills necessary to be most effective as a manager in the accounting profession. The objectives are to define delegation, what it is, what hinders delegation and how to assign tasks and responsibilities to others; to learn the essential management skills of delegation; and to apply coaching principles to ensure success in the delegation process.

Essential Skills for Managing Change

Examines how to deal with internal and external changes in the working environment.

Resolving Ethical Issues

Discusses how to apply principles to the resolution of business ethical dilemmas. A case approach allows participants to begin with and intuitive or instinctive way of resolving issues. Next, systemic ways of understanding, decoding, and addressing ethical issues are discussed.

* Workshop is also available in a one-hour format.

Request for Leadership Training Series Workshops

Leadership Workshop(s) requested:

1 hour	2 hour
	___	Management Styles
	___	Goal Setting and Career Planning
	___	Dealing with Gender Bias
___	___	Presentation Skills
	___	Interpersonal Communications
	___	Male/Female Communication
___	___	Negotiating Conflict Situations
	___	Collaborative Skills: Building Effective Teams
___	___	Personal and Professional Balance
___	___	Facilitation Skills
	___	Mentoring Relationships
	___	Delegation Skills
	___	Resolving Ethical Issues
	___	Essential Skills for Managing Change

   

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* For business use and for use by organizations other than ASWA or AWSCPA,  please contact National Headquarters for information.

For more information or to order any of these training programs, please contact the Educational Foundation for Women in Accounting. Leadership workshop(s) will be mailed upon receipt of request form and payment.

Please mail your payment with this form to:

Cynthia Hires, Foundation Administrator
e-mail: info@efwa.org
The Educational Foundation for Women in Accounting
National Headquarters
P.O. Box 1925
Southeastern, PA 19399-1925
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