Bridge The Gap: Essential Skills to Build a Successful Career (2023)

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Thursday, June 15, 2023

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Vendor: Florida Institute of CPAs

Field of Study: Communications and Marketing, Personal Development, Specialized Knowledge

  • Overview
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  • Objectives
  • Presenters
  • Major Topics
  • Other Information
  • Accommodations

Overview:

The FICPA is pleased to bring to you our newest offering, designed exclusively for early career professionals, Bridge the Gap.

This one-day conference, facilitated by Silvana Capaldi, M&A Advisor at Aberdeen Advisors and founder and president of the Inspirare Group, an experienced facilitator, executive coach, and sales strategist, will help you gain essential skills needed for advancing your career.

Schedule

8:30 a.m. Welcome and Overview of the Day

9:10 a.m. - Brief Personality Assessment
Description: Identify your personality style and uncover how to communicate best with others (as they learn how to communicate best with you)

9:40 a.m. - Understanding Different Communication Styles and Behaviors
Description: During this session you will discuss:

  • How to identify barriers to effective communication
  • Mirroring, matching and active listening skills
  • The effects of body language, demeanor, attitude, and dress
  • 4 communication styles and 4 communication behaviors
  • Communicating assertively, yet tactfully: 4 types of assertive behavior
  • 7 techniques for using indirect influence
  • Navigating with different generations at work
  • Working remote
  • Hands on: Interactive Role-Play: Communication Styles & Behaviors

10:45-11:35 a.m. - Networking
Attendees will learn:

  • Steps to building a successful network
  • The value of networking
  • The ROI of the investment
  • Overcoming challenges
  • How to network online via social media post, overcoming fears and obstacles, to network like a pro, and get the most out an event
  • Hands-on: Group Exercise "I didn't know…"


11:35 a.m. - 12:00 pm - How to Stand Out

  • Building your Brand
  • Networking “Dos” and “Don’ts”
  • Work the room
  • Interactive Group Exercise: “Hello My Name is…”
  • Think of me … worksheet

1:00 p.m. Time Management

  • Plan and prioritize each day
  • Action plan
  • Your Productivity rhythm
  • Know your energy
  • Work-life balance
    o SMART Goals
    • Specific
    • Measurable
    • Achievable
    • Relevant
    • Timed
    • Prioritizing your time
  • Urgent/Important Matrix
  • Action Plan worksheet
  • Urgent-Important Matrix


3:00 p.m. - Building client relationships

  • Characteristics of an Accountant
  • Business growth development
    • Existing clients
    • Creating your own client base
    • Internal client relationships
    • Client experience
  • Value of Client Management Relationship tool
  • Interactive brainstorming session: YOU Worksheet
  • Your Business Growth worksheet
  • 16 Steps to thrive in your career

4:00 p.m. Q&A/Wrap

Schedule:

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Welcome, Overview of Day, Brief Personality Assessment

Time: Thursday 8:30am - 9:30am Credits: 1 BE

During this session attendees will identify your personality style and uncover how to communicate best with others (as they learn how to communicate best with you)

Understanding Different Communication Styles and Behaviors

Time: Thursday 9:40am - 10:00am Credits: 0.5 BE

During this session attendees will discuss:

  • How to identify barriers to effective communication
  • Mirroring, matching and active listening skills
  • The effects of body language, demeanor, attitude, and dress
  • 4 communication styles and 4 communication behaviors
  • Communicating assertively, yet tactfully: 4 types of assertive behavior
  • 7 techniques for using indirect influence
  • Navigating with different generations at work
  • Working remote
  • Hands on: Interactive Role-Play: Communication Styles & Behaviors
  • Attendees will complete a listening questionnaire

Understanding Different Communication Styles and Behaviors cont'd

Time: Thursday 10:15am - 10:45am Credits: 0.5 BE

Networking

Time: Thursday 10:45am - 11:35am Credits: 1 BE

(Video) Bridging the Job Skills Gap

During this sessions, attendees will learn:

  • Steps to building a successful network
  • The value of networking
  • The ROI of the investment
  • Overcoming challenges
  • How to network online via social media post, overcoming fears and obstacles, to network like a pro, and get the most out an event
  • Hands-on: Group Exercise "I didn't know…"

How to Stand Out

Time: Thursday 11:35am - 12:00pm Credits: 0.5 BE

During this session attendees will discuss:

  • Building your Brand
  • Networking “Dos” and “Don’ts”
  • Work the room
  • Interactive Group Exercise: “Hello My Name is…”
  • Think of me … worksheet

Time Management

Time: Thursday 1:00pm - 2:50pm Credits: 2 BE

During this session, attendees will discusss:

  • Plan and prioritize each day
  • Action plan
  • Your Productivity rhythm
  • Know your energy
  • Work-life balance
    • SMART Goals
      • Specific
      • Measurable
      • Achievable
      • Relevant
      • Timed
      • Prioritizing your time
  • Urgent/Important Matrix
  • Action Plan worksheet
  • Urgent-Important Matrix

Building Client Relationships

Time: Thursday 3:00pm - 3:50pm Credits: 1 BE

  • Characteristics of an Accountant
  • Business growth development
    • Existing clients
    • Creating your own client base
    • Internal client relationships
    • Client experience
  • Value of Client Management Relationship tool
  • Interactive brainstorming session: YOU Worksheet
  • Your Business Growth worksheet
  • 16 Steps to thrive in your career

Q&A/ Wrap Up

Time: Thursday 4:00pm - 4:30pm Credits: 0.5 BE

During this session, attendees will participate in a Q&A and evaluation.

Objectives:

•Gain insight into your personality and learn valuable strategies for communicating with others.
•Learn effective techniques for building a successful professional network.
•Explore the importance of building your personal brand.
•Develop effective time management practices.
•Identify effective methods for establishing successful client relationships.

Presenters:

  • Silvana Capaldi

    Silvana Capaldi is a bilingual and bicultural citizen of the United States, Canada, and Italy. Her unique background gives her the ability to connect with people around the world. As a professional speaker, trainer, and coach, she has the capacity to understand the cultural differences and nuances of different backgrounds making her an asset to companies who engage her. Her penchant for all thing...

    Read more about Silvana Capaldi here

Presenters:

Silvana Capaldi

Silvana Capaldi is a bilingual and bicultural citizen of the United States, Canada, and Italy. Her unique background gives her the ability to connect with people around the world. As a professional speaker, trainer, and coach, she has the capacity to understand the cultural differences and nuances of different backgrounds making her an asset to companies who engage her. Her penchant for all thing...Read more about Silvana Capaldi here

Major Topics:

  • Future of the Profession
  • Communication
  • Time Management
  • First Class Customer Service
  • Being Comfortable, Being Uncomfortable
  • Leadership and teamwork
  • Growing your presentation skills

Major Topics:

  • Future of the Profession
  • Communication
  • Time Management
  • First Class Customer Service
  • Being Comfortable, Being Uncomfortable
  • Leadership and teamwork
  • Growing your presentation skills

Designed For:

CPAs, accountants, and other finance professionals

Prerequisites:

None

Accommodations:

Accommodations:

JW Marriott Orlando Bonnet Creek Resort & Spa
14900 Chelonia Parkway
Orlando, FL 32821
407-919-6300

Room Rate: $279.00++ Single/Double

Hotel Cutoff Deadline: Monday, May 22, 2023

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FAQs

What can you do to bridge any identified gaps in skills or experience? ›

Skill building

Perhaps the most effective way of bridging the skills gap is for employers to offer reskilling and upskilling programmes. These help existing employees train in the skills where the organisation is lacking. This type of knowledge building helps both the company and the individual.

How do you complete a skills gap analysis? ›

When you're ready to conduct a skills gap analysis, you'll need to follow these five steps:
  1. Step 1: Plan. The first step in a skills gap analysis is to plan and scope the project you are about to undertake. ...
  2. Step 2: Identify Critical Skills. ...
  3. Step 3: Measure Actual Skills. ...
  4. Step 4: Analyse Data. ...
  5. Step 5: Take Action.

How do you answer the gap in your career? ›

3 tips for talking about employment gaps during a job interview
  1. Be honest about the reason for your resume gap. Recruiters aren't necessarily concerned about the lapse itself; they're more interested in what the gap represents. ...
  2. Be brief and then move on. ...
  3. Come prepared to talk about what you learned during your break.

What is an example of bridging the gap? ›

to connect two things or to make the difference between them smaller: The president singled out education as a vital tool in bridging the gap between rich and poor. This collection of stories bridges the gap between history and fiction.

How do you bridge the gap between performance and potential? ›

How do you manage someone who has who has more energy than experience? Here are four priorities to get started.
  1. Value Relationships Before Results. I recognize you've got to generate revenue—or you'll go out of business. ...
  2. Teach the Importance of Soft Skills. ...
  3. Cultivate Unity in the Midst of Diversity.
Jul 21, 2015

What is the skills gap explanation? ›

The skills and training job seekers have often doesn't match the experience required for specialized jobs in the emerging economy. This difference between the skills that employers are looking for and the training and experience that candidates possess is called the “skills gap.”

What do you plan to do with the gap in knowledge or how do you solve the gap in knowledge? ›

10 Tips for Filling Your Knowledge Gaps.
  1. Identify your knowledge gaps. ...
  2. Research and study on your own time. ...
  3. Take online trainings. ...
  4. Take advantage of continuing education opportunities. ...
  5. Patch the knowledge gaps with your personal experiences. ...
  6. Practice makes perfect. ...
  7. Involve yourself in hands-on activities.

What actions can you take if you identify skills gaps related to your work? ›

5 Steps You Can Take to Close Skill Gaps in Your Organization
  • Gather the Evidence. ...
  • Undertake a Skills-mapping Exercise. ...
  • Identify Learning Opportunities Geared Toward Closing the Gap. ...
  • Create Engaging Learning Experiences. ...
  • Monitor Your Progress.
Sep 11, 2019

How can you identify your own skills gaps? ›

That's easy: tests and quizzes are a common way, but other methods also include practical assessments or role-playing activities. Assessments are excellent ways to identify skill gaps. One key point here is to base the assessments on real work scenarios so you can identify the actual skill gaps and training needs.

What is a gap analysis example? ›

For example, if a company wants to start a marketing campaign to improve their reputation or apply for a loan, they could perform a market gap analysis to help determine their impact on the their local economy and use that data as part of their campaign or loan application.

What are the three 3 fundamental components of a gap analysis? ›

The three fundamental components of a gap analysis are the current state, desired state, and the gap.

How do you explain a career gap due to personal reasons? ›

When explaining these gaps to prospective employers, you want to offer a good reason for them, such as:
  • becoming a stay-at-home parent or caregiver.
  • looking for a new job.
  • being laid off because of organizational changes.
  • furthering your education.
  • taking time off for a medical reason.
  • relocating from one area to another.
Aug 26, 2022

How do you professionally explain gaps in employment? ›

How to explain employment gaps
  1. Be honest. ...
  2. Don't include your entire work history. ...
  3. Downplay smaller gaps by leaving out the month. ...
  4. Explain employment gaps in your cover letter. ...
  5. Highlight what you did accomplish while out of work.
Aug 18, 2022

What is gap description in career? ›

What Are Employment Gaps? Employment gaps are periods during your professional career during which you did not have secure, formal employment. Historically, employment gaps were times when the applicant did not work at all.

What skills should in include in the gap analysis? ›

A skills gap analysis involves conducting questionnaires, surveys, performance assessments, and interviews to collect feedback and data on current workforce skills and performance. Additionally, leaders should review current strategies and organizational goals to compare current state with future-state objectives.

What are the benefits of skills gap? ›

Reasons why conducting a skills gap analysis is useful include: It gives you insights into your entire workforce, it boosts individual learning and development, it helps with strategic workforce planning, it improves recruitment efforts, and it creates a competitive advantage.

What is bridge the gap summary? ›

"Bridge the Gap teaches professionals how to intentionally put genuine curiosity at the heart of any working relationship where understanding, collaboration, and respect are paramount for success. Packed with examples and tools, this is a truly practical guide to being effective at work in the twenty-first century."

What is bridging the gap to success? ›

The process of becoming successful and creating wealth consists of bridging a constant stream of gaps. The minute you bridge one gap, achieve one goal, and reach a new “destination,”you choose another goal and another destination you want to reach.

What is an example of a bridging statement? ›

Q: “Isn't it better to be safe than sorry?” A: “We take safety very seriously. For example...” Q: “What if...” A: “I can't speculate, but I can tell you that...” A: “That's a hypothetical question, but what we do know is...” A: “Unfortunately, we don't have a crystal ball.

What is a simple example of a performance gap? ›

Put simply, an employee has a performance gap when they have to perform a certain task in their role, but they don't know how to complete it. Examples of performance gaps include: An employee needs to keep checking their email, but doesn't know how. A sales employee has a quota to meet, but comes up short that month.

How to address performance gaps and build on positive performance? ›

How to Perform a Performance Gap Analysis
  1. Identify Performance Gap Causes.
  2. Conduct a Skills Gap Analysis.
  3. Create Training Programs.
  4. Establish Clear Performance Goals.
  5. Create the Right Culture.
  6. Track Metrics & Conduct Regular Performance Appraisals.
Mar 25, 2022

How do you bridge a leadership gap? ›

What Can Be Done About the Leadership Gap?
  1. Perform a needs assessment. ...
  2. Create a leadership strategy. ...
  3. Develop clear, specific goals and strategies for individual leadership development. ...
  4. Create systems. ...
  5. Evaluate.

What are three skill gaps? ›

Three major factors in the current skills gap are a lack of tech training, retiring baby boomers, and a lack of soft-skills development.

What are the three gaps that training can help solve? ›

These three gaps have arisen from some common trends in the workforce and economy so most businesses face at least one of them.
  • The Skills Gap. ...
  • The Engagement Gap. ...
  • The Learning Gap.
Nov 28, 2019

What is the skills gap between employers? ›

Among C-suite executives, 68% admit their organizations have a skills gap, up from 60% in 2021. Unsurprisingly, about 69% of managers—typically those on the frontlines of the recruiting and retention challenges—say they're regularly dealing with a workforce that doesn't have the skills they need.

What can I say instead of bridge the gap? ›

On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bridge the gap, such as: aid, assist, keep head above water, keep one going, and see-through.

What are the strategies to fill the professional gaps? ›

5 Options to Fill the Gap in Employment
  • Contract work. There is value in continuing to work, even if you don't have a permanent, full-time engagement. ...
  • Temporary work. ...
  • Volunteering. ...
  • Write and/or speak. ...
  • Get more training.

What is an example of a gap in knowledge in research? ›

A research gap is a problem that has not been addressed or answered in previous studies in the form of books, journal articles or reports. For instance, presently, there is a lack of research on the long-term effects of the Covid-19 vaccine.

What approach will you use to identify gaps in development process? ›

Gap analysis is used to compare where you are against where you would like to be. This helps you identify the gaps between these two states, and come up with an action plan to close them. Basically, it helps you find solutions to issues that are holding you back from growing as a business.

What is strategic gap analysis in simple words? ›

What Is Strategic Gap Analysis? Strategic gap analysis is a business management technique that requires an evaluation of the difference between a business endeavor's best possible outcome and the actual outcome. It includes recommendations on steps that can be taken to close the gap.

What are the key reasons for Gap 3? ›

Gap 3: The Delivery Gap
  • Deficiencies in human resources policies.
  • Failure to match supply to demand.
  • Employee lack of knowledge of the product.
  • Lack of cohesive teamwork to deliver the product or service.
Sep 5, 2019

How do I identify my skills gaps? ›

That's easy: tests and quizzes are a common way, but other methods also include practical assessments or role-playing activities. Assessments are excellent ways to identify skill gaps. One key point here is to base the assessments on real work scenarios so you can identify the actual skill gaps and training needs.

What skills do you want to develop to succeed in this role? ›

Examples of skills you may discuss wanting to improve may relate to:
  • Communication.
  • Computers.
  • Mediation.
  • Mentoring or coaching.
  • Networking.
  • Presenting or public speaking.
  • Technical duties.
  • Time management.
Mar 16, 2023

What are skills gaps and training needs? ›

A Training Needs Analysis / Assessment (TNA), sometimes referred to as a skills gap analysis is a process in which the desired knowledge and skills of a particular job role or level are compared to the current skills of employees holding that job role or level.

What does gaps in skills and knowledge mean? ›

Knowledge gaps and skill gaps refer to deficiencies in the performance of your employees. It is the disparity between an employees' existing set of skills and the qualities they must possess to do their job efficiently.

What skills and experience can you bring to this role example? ›

“I can bring positivity, experience, a creative approach to solving problems, and the ability to embrace change enthusiastically. I can bring drive, a passion for this industry, and the ability to always treat your clients and customers in a way that will ensure they become long-term advocates of the business.

What 3 things would you need to succeed on this role? ›

Dedication,hard work,and smart work which will bring success.

How can you use your strengths to improve your skills answer? ›

Question: What is one way to take your core strengths and make them even stronger?
  • Assess Subsets of Your Strengths. ...
  • Find People to Cover for Your Weaknesses. ...
  • Get Additional Training. ...
  • Identify Strength-Enhancing Opportunities. ...
  • Deliberately Practice. ...
  • Communicate and Blog. ...
  • Learn From Others. ...
  • Be Open to Change.
Sep 21, 2015

Why is skill gap important? ›

Skill gap analysis helps you have some insights on which employees are lacking important skills and which have aced them. You can accordingly plan your pieces of training and courses depending on how many employees need to learn the necessary job skills to get work done in the organization.

What questions would you ask to help identify skill gaps? ›

How is the organization currently handling the training of this skill? Is there formal learning in place to teach it, or are learners expected to learn on the job by observing others? Is there an expectation that they already have these skills, and we've never allocated any resources toward training it?

How do you close skill gaps in the workplace? ›

7 tips to close the skill gap
  1. Identify the specific skills gap at your organization and determine the skills needed for the future.
  2. Develop soft skills.
  3. Create tailored learning paths.
  4. Mix up learning formats.
  5. Offer mentorships.
  6. Use a learning management platform.
  7. Track progress and impact.
Aug 31, 2022

What actions will you take to address the skills gap? ›

We have put together a 6-step process that helps you to conduct a successful skills gap analysis.
  • Step 1: Plan Your Analysis. ...
  • Step 2: Identify Your Business Goals. ...
  • Step 3: Focus on Future-Proofing. ...
  • Step 4: Measure Current Skills. ...
  • Step 5: Identify the Gaps. ...
  • Step 6: Put Your Findings Into Action.
Jul 22, 2021

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