Audit 501: Personality Styles - Improving Your Interactions

Overview

Personality Styles - Adapting to Different Types of Personalities for Improved Relationships and Interactions provides guidance for effectively adapting to various personality styles. Every individual has a dominant personality style, which includes relevant strengths and weaknesses. Effective interactions require individuals to adapt behaviors to complement, balance or counteract the traits of others. Note: This course is recommended as a part of a 8-hour audit skills curriculum for managers, while it is also appropriate for anyone who has responsibilities for interacting with others. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Highlights

• Defining primary personality style characteristics
• Determining your own primary personality style and the style of others
• Effectively adapting for improving interactions with various personality styles
• Leveraging strengths and minimizing the negative impact of personality weaknesses
• Applying personality style analysis to real-life situations involving clients, staff, peers and superiors

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Accountants with responsibilities for effectively interacting with others

Objectives

After attending this presentation, you will be able to...

• Recognize four primary personality styles, including relative strengths and weaknesses
• Identify what traits you and others demonstrate
• List factors to consider to more effectively communicate and otherwise interact with others
• Recall best practices for modifying personal behaviors in appropriate circumstances to result in better situational outcomes with others

Preparation

None

Notice

This course is provided by a third-party vendor. Please note that login instructions will not be available in the ‘My Upcoming CPE’ section of the NESCPA website. Instead, the login instructions will be sent directly to you via email by CPA Crossings. Upon completing the course, your hours will be recorded in the ‘My CPE Tracker’ section of the NESCPA website.