Event Description

When the numbers are clear but opinions differ, how do you move forward? 

For CPAs, CFOs, and accounting professionals, disagreements over budgets, priorities, and business strategy can sharpen decisions—or strain relationships and stall execution.

Join Doug Van Dyke, CEO of Leadership Simplified, to discover how to turn competing perspectives into stronger outcomes. Learn to surface concerns before they become resentment, challenge ideas while preserving respect, and distinguish healthy debate from destructive personal conflict.

Explore practical ways to keep status, strong personalities, and organizational politics from silencing valuable perspectives. Then learn how to close the discussion with a clear decision, defined ownership, and commitment to action.

Leave equipped to lead candid conversations, make better decisions, and turn disagreement into progress.

Objectives

Participants will learn to:
•  Distinguish productive task conflict from destructive personal conflict.
•  Surface disagreements before they become resentment or passive resistance.
•  Challenge ideas without diminishing the people presenting them.
•  Facilitate debate when status, personality, or organizational politics affect participation.
•  Close a debate with a clear decision, ownership, and commitment to execution.