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Topic: Leadership at the Early Stages of Your Career Presented to the student chapter of IMA – The Association of Accountants and Financial Professionals Presenter: Connie Wilson – Director of Client Experience, Grant Thornton, LLP. Agenda. Welcome and introductions Background on Grant Thornton

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  1. Topic: Leadership at the Early Stages of Your CareerPresented to the student chapter of IMA – The Association of Accountants and Financial ProfessionalsPresenter: Connie Wilson – Director of Client Experience, Grant Thornton, LLP

  2. Agenda • Welcome and introductions • Background on Grant Thornton • Attributes of Leadership • Tips to help you stand out • Wrap-up and final questions

  3. Welcome and Introductions

  4. Today's Presenter Connie Wilson – Director of Client Experience, Grant Thornton

  5. About Grant Thornton

  6. Grant Thornton Grant Thornton is a full spectrum audit, tax, and advisory firm.  There are 6 truly global firms, and we are one of them.  We have 50 offices in the U.S. and we are in 100 countries around the world.  Our size and footprint give us the capacity to respond to the range of needs our clients have.  But our focus is localized, personalized service.   We help our clients do three things:  achieve goals, solve problems, and manage risk.   

  7. Attributes of Leadership

  8. Attributes of Leadership at an Executive Level

  9. Attributes of Leadership at an Entry Level

  10. Tips to help you stand out

  11. How will you stand out in a sea of entry level people?

  12. Ten tips to help you stand out from the crowd!1. Know how you connect to the bigger picture

  13. Ten tips to help you stand out from the crowd!2. Adhere to the "Doctrine of Completed Work" http://govleaders.org/completed_staff_work.htm • The following memorandum has been reproduced countless times by military and civilian organizations since World War II and has become a widely accepted definition of what effective staff members do.  • The original source of the memorandum is unclear.  Some reports indicate that the memo was issued in January 1942 by the Provost Marshal General, U.S. Army.  It has also bee attributed to Brigadier G.E.R. Smith, a member of the Royal Canadian Army, who released it in 1943, while he was serving as Deputy Director of Supplies and Transport, First Canadian Army.

  14. Ten tips to help you stand out from the crowd!3. Know when it is time to speak up or time to let it go

  15. Ten tips to help you stand out from the crowd!4. Know the power of influence vs. authority

  16. Ten tips to help you stand out from the crowd!5. Learn what it means to be politically astute

  17. Ten tips to help you stand out from the crowd!6. Practice the principals of effective communications (verbal and non-verbal) Face-to-Face Telephone Texting Video (Skype) Instant messaging verbal (includes oral and written) Web-conferencing Social Media Sites (LinkedIn, Facebook) E-mail

  18. Ten tips to help you stand out from the crowd!6. Practice the principals of effective communications (verbal and non-verbal)

  19. Ten tips to help you stand out from the crowd!7. Be aware of your focus frames

  20. Ten tips to help you stand out from the crowd!7. Be aware of your focus frames

  21. What is your role in today's session?

  22. Time to get up out of your chairs!

  23. THE MOST POWERFUL OF ALL HUMAN FEARS IS THE FEAR OF FAILURE AND THE FEAR OF SUCCESS. THESE FEARS, WHEN UNTAMED, HAVE THE POWER TO PREVENT US FROM REACHING OUR FULL POTENTIAL.

  24. What is your role in today's session?

  25. THE MOST POWERFUL OF ALL HUMAN FEARS IS THE FEAR OFFAILURE AND THE FEAR OF SUCCESS. THESE FEARS, WHEN UNTAMED, HAVE THE POWER TO PREVENT US FROM REACHING OUR FULL POTENTIAL. The correct number of F's is 11

  26. Why do we not always see the Fs? Right Brain:Intuitiveemotionalcreativevisualsimultaneousrelationshipsimpressions Left Brain:rationallogicalsequentiallinguisticmotordataanalytic Our left brain interprets the "F" in the word "of" phonetically as "OV" . This causes people to miss the "F" visually.

  27. Look at the chart and say the color, not the word: YELLOWBLUEORANGEBLACKRED GREENPURPLE YELLOWREDORANGE GREEN BLACKBLUE RED PURPLEGREENBLUEORANGE

  28. Why is this so hard to do? Your right brain tries to say the color but your left brain insists on reading the word YELLOW BLUEORANGEBLACKRED GREENPURPLE YELLOWREDORANGE GREEN BLACKBLUE RED PURPLEGREENBLUEORANGE

  29. Ten tips to help you stand out from the crowd!8. Look for the "f's"

  30. Ten tips to help you stand out from the crowd!9. Your emotional elevator – know what floor you're on grateful wise, insightful creative, innovative resourceful hopeful, optimistic appreciative patient, understanding sense of humor flexible, adaptive curious, interested impatient, frustrated irritated, bothered worried, anxious defensive, insecure judgmental, blaming self-righteous stressed, burned-out angry, hostile depressed The higher the floor, the more you are able to contribute and perform at your best. What floor are you on right now? How can you reframe things and move to a higher floor? Source:

  31. Ten tips to help you stand out from the crowd!10. Learn how to press pause – Manage your "R" Event + Reaction = Outcome

  32. Ten tips to help you stand out from the crowd! Know how you connect to the bigger picture Adhere to the "Doctrine of Completed Work" Know when it is time to speak up or time to let it go Know the power of influence versus authority Learn what it means to be politically astute Practice the principals of effective communications Be aware of your focus frames Look for the "f's" Your emotional elevator – know what floor you are on Learn how to press pause – Manage your "R"

  33. Questions?

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