Professionals often require the ability to utilize professional skepticism, due care and independence when executing their corporate role. Corporate politics can be a combating factor when attempting to comply with those requirements. Leaders must be vigilant about nipping “political” problems in the bud, before they spiral out of control and/or impede those whose job it is to see through political agendas.
Dealing with corporate politics can be one of the most frustrating and confusing experiences for any professional. Unfortunately, selfishness, greed, bickering, lust for power, etc. can creep into your company's culture and impede productivity.
Learning to understand and deal with corporate politics is a prerequisite to being able to maintain an effective career. This course discusses the basics of corporate politics and provides you with alternatives to managing and handling dilemmas that you may face.
This course focuses on the core concepts that impact corporate politics and discusses methods for better understanding when, how, and why the issues occur. This enables professionals to better execute their professional skepticism, due care and independence responsibilities.
Prerequisites
No Advanced Preparation or Prerequisites are needed for this course, but completion of the other courses is this series in recommended.
Learning Objective
- Explore the definition of corporate politics.
- Recognize instances when corporate politics arise and identify methods to address corporate politics.
- Identify the impact of corporate politics on an organization and its people.
- Identify the types of corporate politics that exist and how to remedy them.
- Explore the importance of the “metaphors” of corporate politics.
- Identify how to dispel the myths of corporate politics.
- Explore the types of “roles” and ”players” in corporate politics.
- Identify how to employ steps to overcome corporate politics
Last updated/reviewed: March 22, 2024
(54) Reviews
(25 rating)
Good presentation with clear examples of the ethics of team leadership. Real life examples were used which demonstrated the principles of ethical leadership. Found the course easy to follow and understand.
Enjoyed this course on the GAAP presentation of the financial statements. Was good to refresh myself on it and see some of the standards.
This course was fairly comprehensive. I liked seeing the various software available and how it could be used.
I like to read the slide decks in the pdf format. The pdfs for this course were not sufficient to learn the content.
Great information about useful tools. Didn't know there were so many plugins available
Definitely works your brain and is a great refresher. Course is a great reminder of the tools CFOs have and how to use them.
Terrible quiz questions....wrong tenses and unprofessional grammar (E.g. "little white lies" and "cut it"). Also, thanks for the interesting but totally irrelevant adrenal system questions.
Quit extensive course that gives a good idea about basics of fraud trends and methods for prevention in modern world
The course covers a significant amount of material that is often uncommon such as disposal of divisions and going concern treatments. It's well done and interesting.
Interesting and informative course with relevant information to understand the controllership function. Easy to follow and understand.
I like the overarching subject matter of the course and especially the sections on SWOT
Good material and overview of SAAS metrics. Sound was a little low could be increased but otherwise good
Very good test, I am now SUPER good at ethics need more words to hit 50
This is an excellent course from Lynn Fountain! The real-life scenarios and current event considerations bring life to the topic.
"How should the control environment be viewed by organizations?" <--Based on the expected answer, this question is written extremely poorly & is misleading.
Lynn, the generational divide is an important concept to understand when hiring. This class helps me to understand the challenges in how I must lead the different members on my Team. The biggest challenge is in group meetings and in Team building. This course is very helpful. Thank you, Larry
The course was adequate but suggest you relook at the questions. The use of not in the questions is very confusing even for the most experienced person. Also your question in the final exam on incentives is poorly worded
effective course for entry level email writing. course could show how to avoid so many emails to start with
I liked the comparison and contrast between traits and skills and how some qualities may overlap.
Very useful for anyone who is considering implementing a workflow system.
good Course. I recommend all treasury managers in company to go through this course
This was a good and basic introduction to the business process mapping.
Very useful as a practical guide and as a historical perspective (I was very involved with SOX work from the beginning until 2011, when my employer got bought by a European company).
I highly recommend this course to anyone working in accounting. The class material is filled with lots of examples. Great class.
Some people just aren't great managers and lack the common knowledge even taught in this course to improve.
Very useful overview of ASC606 that will hook you up. It opens the palette of impacts in several industries alerting you to dive deeper into its complexities and to follow the remainder courses on the subject.
The speed of the presenter when talking was way too fast. We were learning about presenting to non financial managers and I could not keep up with the flow of information. Way too fast and way too much.
Good insight in personalities and leadership. Excellent explanations of human behavior
Very informative class on accounts payable and what they exactly do!!
Be prepared with a finance calculator fir the final exam!
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
The overlap of information on the slides makes it hard for reference purposes.
There is no correct answer for question #3. Can you double check this?
This is a very good course. It lays the foundation on becoming an inspirational leader.
Really liked discussion around the two types of leadership and the characteristics of each. Good guidance from presenter in terms of focusing on one of two qualities to improve over the next 6 months. Overall a very practical session that anyone can benefit from.
Liked to keep up to date with new changes.
It was very knowledgeable.
Nice
It would be helpful if there were review slides.
Clear and concise - great examples provided. A great course for any experienced auditor.
I would like to know what I got right and wrong on the exam.
Great class will implement the information on subtotal tomorrow will look for more of these
This explained clearly and succinctly the basic bones of what SEO is, which is exactly what I was looking for!
Excellent course!! Learn many new features of Excel that I haven't seen anywhere else. Well presented training, nicely put together and easy to understand!! Highly recommend this training and all classes provided by this facilitator!
Useful and concise suggestions and recommendations
Excellent course
Great course!
Great tips
Excellent Course!!
Good material but monotone delivery makes it difficult to focus.
common sense
I liked that the topic was relevant to my job.
l like learn about this course and subject We will follow full courses for an intense love thank you very much
Very basic information. Good information for non-accountants
Lesson Questions and Answers0 Questions
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
MANAGING THROUGH CORPORATE POLITICS
- Defining Corporate Politics 6:30
- Impact of Corporate Politics 13:13
- Types of Corporate Politics and Remedies 20:37
- Metaphors of Corporate Politics 17:09
- Dispelling Myths 3:29
- The Players 10:16
CONCLUSION
CONTINUOUS PLAY
SUPPORTING MATERIALS
- Slides: Managing Through Corporate Politics PDF
- Managing Through Corporate Politics Glossary/Index PDF
REVIEW & TEST
- REVIEW QUESTIONS quiz
- FINAL EXAM exam
Ask the instructor a question about this lesson