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Character and Trust: Without Them is Like Exploring a Cave Without Proper Lighting, the Footing is Treacherous- ABEN - ON DEMAND - NO CE


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Average Rating:
   6
Categories:
Human Resource Development
Faculty:
Mario Flores, PCC, MBA, CPA
Course Levels:
Intermediate
Duration:
2 Hours
License:
Access for 90 day(s) after purchase.


Description

This course is based on the premise that one typically hires for competence but fires for character.This course focuses on the character and trustworthiness of the individual.  The course takes you through critical attributes of character and provides for gaining self-awareness of where one stands in their character through a key exercise.  The emphasis is also on trust, a critical ingredient to successful relationship management.  Several  tools and approaches are discussed in the course that will assist and guide the individual in effectively evaluating the trustworthiness of themselves or others, including bosses, direct reports, peers.

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives
  • To gain a better understanding of critical attributes of character
  • To gain self-awareness of one's own character
  • To learn an approach in evaluating the character of an individual
  • To learn various levels of trust (from individual to societal)
  • To understand the types of trust
  • To learn an approach to ascertaining the trustworthiness of you and others
  • To learn what a toxic trust environment looks like
  • To learn an antibiotic to deal with the toxic trust
  • To provide additional perspective to effectively develop people and minimize the adverse consequences of individuals and cultures with character and/or trust issues

Major Subjects
  • Character Definition
  • Critical Character Attributes
  • Character Self-Awareness
  • Additional Character Identification Techniques
  • Trust Definitions
  • Waves of Trust
  • Four Cores of Trust
  • Toxic Trust and Antibiotics

Course Materials

Faculty

Mario Flores, PCC, MBA, CPA Related Seminars and Products

Founder and President

Top Notch Coaching, LLC


Mario Flores is the founder and President of Top Notch Coaching, LLC, an executive and professional business coaching company specializing in Leadership Coaching for the Financial Executive and Financial Professional. Prior to his retirement, he worked for over 36 years with Verizon/GTE with over 18 years at the Executive Leadership Level in Finance and Operations.  Mario has excellent business acumen developed through a career that systematically evolved from professional discipline to business leader.  His professional evolution is rooted in strong financial fundamentals in Accounting, Regulatory, Financial Planning as well as business fundamentals in Business Analysis, Supply Chain Management, Retail Markets and Operations.  He has served in major, nationwide executive leadership roles and has acquired a broad range of financial and nonfinancial experiences over this four-decade period in the dynamic telecommunications industry.

As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) from the International Coach Federation (ICF), he is an experienced Executive and Professional coach in both “for-profit” and “non-profit” environments.  Mario’s core competencies include coaching, leadership, behavioral self-awareness,  business acumen, strategic thinking for results-driven execution, accountability models, multi-functional and end-to-end process viewpoints, and an understanding of the development of the “Professional to Business Partner to Business Leader” evolution.

Mario has a BBA in Accounting and an MBA in Management from Angelo State University, is a licensed CPA in the State of Texas, a Certified Winslow Research Institute Coach and a Certified Conflict Dynamics Profile Consultant.

Mario also serves on the faculty as an executive coach in the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Executive MBA Program and Global Leadership Executive MBA Program and as an external executive coach in the UTD Masters in Management and Administrative Sciences/UT Southwestern/THR/Parkland Healthcare Organization Leadership Program.  Mario is a member of the Faculty and Moderator for the national broadcasting Business Professionals’ Network, Inc. /Accounting CPE Network (ACPEN).  He has been published in the April 2012 issue of Financial Executive Magazine, a publication of the Financial Executives International (FEI) organization.

Mario is committed to giving back to the community. He has served on various boards including the Corporate Advisory Board for the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, the Christian Community Action (CCA) Board of Directors and Parenting Alone.  He has engaged in public speaking in various forums including Angelo State University, University of North Texas, University of Texas at Dallas, Nanjing University in China, The United Nations, The Financial Executives International Dallas Chapter and other not for profit organizations. 


State Specific Details

Basic Course Information

Advanced Preparation None
Course Developer Mario Flores
Designed For All professionals
Prerequisites None

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Overall:      3.8

Total Reviews: 6

Comments

Laura R - Aubrey, Texas

"Valuable insight! Thank you!"