LIVE WEBINARBusiness development for CPA firms (2 hrs)
This webinar will provide tools and techniques in business development for managers, senior managers and Partners of CPA firms.
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LIVE WEBINARManaging your home office: Best practices for working remotely (1.5 hrs)
This webinar will investigate the benefits and challenges of working from home. The webinar will then provide practical research-based solutions to maximize your productivity and happiness while working from home.
LIVE WEBINARLeading virtual teams to success (1.5 hrs)
In this webinar, we will investigate the challenges of leading a virtual team. These challenges include motivating your team, providing feedback and communicating using teleconferencing software. The webinar will then provide practical research based solutions to help overcome these challenges and lead your virtual team to success
ON DEMANDLeading teams to excellence (0.2 hr) – Free
Learning objectives:
The objective of this course is to teach you how to assess and increase the collective intelligence of your team when completing/performing a shared task. Collective intelligence refers to a team’s ability and skill to complete a shared task. To achieve the learning objective of the course, the video and self learning activities will teach the following:
- Assessing the collective intelligence of your team
- Understanding how you can affect the collective intelligence of the team.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
After completion of this course, the professional competence that can be achieved by participants:
- Identify factors that increase collective intelligence
- Identify factors that decrease collective intelligence
Measurement of the knowledge, skills and abilities
After completion of this course, you will be able to:
- List the 3 factors that correlate to a team’s collective intelligence.
- Assess the collective intelligence of your teams.
- Develop SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely) action steps to improve the collective intelligence of your team based on your assessment.
- Measure the increase in the collective intelligence of your team by specific metrics such as meeting project milestones and favourable project reviews
- Develop SMART action steps to encourage balanced contribution from team members measured by positive feedback (both formal and informal) from team members.
- Apply the factors correlated to increasing collective intelligence of a team to improve the team’s creative problem solving capabilities.
0.2 hrs of verifiable CPD (Certificate will be provided upon course completion)
LIVE WEBINARThinking outside of the box (2 hrs)
Innovation can lead to breakthrough ideas and operational excellence. However, ‘outside the box’ thinking is very challenging for most of us. This webinar will provide you with researched-based tools and techniques that can be implemented immediately to help encourage innovation individually and within your teams.
LIVE WEBINARMotivation and teamwork (2 hrs)
Understanding how to create and maintain a motivating environment can be challenging given the differing individual and team incentives involved in completing a project or task. Motivation is a powerful tool and current research shows that it can lead to increased productivity within teams. This webinar will introduce you to 3 recent research studies that can be used to improve motivation and increase productivity within teams.
LIVE WEBINARLeading teams to excellence (1 hr)
The objective of this webinar is to teach you how to assess and increase the collective intelligence of your team when completing/performing a shared task. Collective intelligence refers to a team’s ability and skill to complete a shared task. The learning objectives for this webinar are:
- Assessing the collective intelligence of your team
- Understanding how you can affect the collective intelligence of the team.
LIVE WEBINARNew Manager Training (9 hrs)
This is a multiple webinar program ((Three webinars, 3 hrs each) designed to address technical and communication competencies that are important for new managers in a CPA firm. Topics include:
- Planning and designing effective assurance procedures
- Effective use of analytical procedures for engagements (including data analytics and data extraction software)
- Business development and growing your professional network
- Providing and receiving effective feedback
LIVE WEBINARNew Senior Training (9 hrs)
This is a multiple webinar program (three webinars, 3 hrs each) designed to address technical and communication competencies that are important for new seniors in a CPA firm. Topics include:
- Understanding your role in planning and risk assessment as a senior
- How to supervise your staff while completing your own work
- How to increase your productivity as a senior
LIVE WEBINARExperienced Staff Training (9 hrs)
This is a multiple webinar program (three webinars, 3 hrs each) designed to address technical and communication competencies that are important for experience staff (1-2 busy seasons) with a CPA firm.