Business Essentials for Women

In order to develop into progressively higher levels of leadership, women leaders must exhibit knowledge in areas beyond their core areas of expertise and be prepared to communicate that knowledge effectively. Strong leadership skills include an understanding of how the overall organization operates from a strategic business perspective.

This webinar will provide insight into the foundational areas of business acumen and how your development in those areas will allow you to become a more impactful and effective leader.

About Your Instructor

Tonya Echols is an Executive Coach, Leadership Consultant, facilitator, speaker, and writer. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentialed by the International Coach Federation (ICF) of which she is also a Global member and President Elect of the ICF Georgia Chapter. Tonya was recognized by LinkedIn ProFinder as one of the standout Executive Coaches of the year for 2016 and 2017, and her writing has been featured in several publications including Forbes, HuffPost, and Training Industry.

Join us to learn:

• Ways that vision, mission, and strategy are tied to a business
• How Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) are used to understand financial impacts of decisions and operations
• Approaches for developing relationships throughout the organization
• How your day-to-day work ties into the organization’s overall vision, mission, and/or strategy
• Steps to further expand your operational knowledge of the business

After this webinar, participants will

• Understand how businesses strategically and functionally operate and make money
• What is required to develop business acumen
• Develop strategies to improve your business acuman

About Women's Leadership Center Webinars

This webinar is free for WLC members. To register as a member and claim your complimentary registration, log into your WLC Member account and redeem your discount code. (During the checkout process, you will be redirected to the AMA learning site to log in or create a My AMA account to complete checkout)

In addition, registrants will have a single-user license to access a recorded archive of the program for a full year.

Please note that webinars are designed to provide a one-to-one learning experience for an individual and are not designed to be viewed in a group setting. Program access is available only via the MYAMA account of the registered attendee.

To fully participate in this electronic, interactive and live session, please check your system (or ask your IT department) to ensure it meets the following requirements:

Supported OS, Browser and Additional Requirements

• Windows 7 and above; Google Chrome (v66.0 & above), Internet Explorer (v11.0 & above), Mozilla Firefox (v55.0 & above), or Microsoft Edge (v16 & above)
• Mac OS X 10.11, 10.12 and 10.13; Google Chrome (v66.0 & above), Apple Safari (v11.0 & above) and Mozilla Firefox (v55.0 & above)
• Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Google Chrome and Adobe Flash Player 23.0
• Google Android 4.4 or later
• Apple iOS: iOS 8.1.2 or later

If you are using an unsupported version of a Windows, Mac, or Linux operating system, you may experience difficulty in viewing and/or listening to the event.

Test Your Computer

The audio portion of this AMA web event will be delivered directly through your computer’s speakers or attached headphones. To fully participate in this electronic, interactive, live session, please test your system and review the requirements (or ask your IT department) before the program begins:

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Additional Requirements:

• Minimum bandwidth requirement is 512 kbps for meeting attendees
• POP-UP Blockers must be turned off to access the program.

Important tip - Please allow 15 minutes prior to joining a session to conduct your set-up and testing!

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