Apr 30
Benefits
  • Identify which vendors to manage
  • Enhance relationships with vendors
  • Ensure vendor performance
  • Exercise your rights
  •  Monitor vendor obligations
  • Learn to use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  •  Implement an effective vendor management system
Overview
Tired of worrying about your vendors’ performance? Concerned about contractual disagreements and products/services that don’t measure up to standards? This workshop will show you how to control your vendors and get what you pay for. You’ll learn techniques to establish and maintain a meaningful working relationship with your key vendors. And, you’ll discover how to create and utilize leverage that improves vendor performance.
Topics include
  • Essential Governance Structure and Tools
  • Vendor Classification
  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Relationship Management Techniques
  • Managed Acquisition Process™
Whether you currently have or are interested in establishing a Vendor Management Office (VMO) you’ll gain valuable insights by attending this seminar. 

May 1
Strengthening Your People Skills in the Workplace is an intensive new workshop that provides you with a one-day way to gain the essential people skills you need to push ahead in your career. No other skill set is as crucial to your professional or personal success! Attend, and you’ll learn how to …
Influence others to your way of thinking
•Gain enthusiasm for your ideas, buy-in for your plans and support when you need it using a concise method for persuasion.
Build immediate rapport with new people
•Connect with new people quickly, establishing rapport sure to result in solid, long-lasting professional relationships.
Handle difficult people more effectively with less stress
•Counteract typical tactics difficult people use, and gain insight into why difficult people behave the way they do.
Deal confidently with conflict, confrontation and disagreements
•Prevent conflict before it happens by confronting others professionally, calmly and tactfully over differences you have.
Pinpoint and eliminate habits and tendencies that hold you back
•Continue to strengthen your people skills long after this workshop is over by recognizing and eliminating self-sabotaging interpersonal habits.

May 9
Behind every successful organization, there's a great financial manager …
Your job as your organization's controller means that it's up to you to juggle people, projects, finances, budgets, and purchases … not to mention other critical duties like staying on top of state and federal regulatory agency requirements, providing complex financial data at a moment's notice, and overseeing the financial policies and direction of your organization.
Managers, CEOs, CFOs, investors, and company stakeholders — all depend on the accurate financial data, forecasting, analysis, and reporting that controllers provide.
How can you work more effectively? Do your job more efficiently? How do other controllers at some of today's largest organizations manage their myriad of responsibilities (while keeping their sanity!)? What are the latest and greatest "best practices" you can adopt to make your own job easier?
The Controller's Workshop  is an intensive, fast-paced look at how to improve your day-to-day job performance by working smarter — not harder or longer (you already put in enough hours in a day!). You'll discover an incredible amount of information, ideas, how-to's, and tools for improving your accounting team's performance, enhancing your financial reporting skills, maintaining successful internal controls, monitoring cash flow, controlling costs, and much, much more.