Designed especially for CPAs, this class is a practical call to action that provides CPAs with the tools and inspiration they need to be better thinkers. You'll learn habits and strategies you can use every day to dramatically improve judgment and decision-making. You'll learn how to break down mental barriers and alleviate mental fatigue. You'll achieve new levels of mental clarity, flexibility, and resilience. You will also benefit from better overall mental well-being and be more resistant to stress and burnout. Attendees leave as more powerful and confident thinkers and better communicators and problem-solvers. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

The major topics covered in this course include:

• Decluttering your mind for clarity and mental bandwidth
• "Micro-habits" that transform judgment and decision-making
• A "thinking audit" process that will change your world
• Using "gamification" to solve tough dilemmas
• The science of trust
• How to see patterns others don't see
• Regulating and optimizing your mental resources
• High-stakes decision making

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

This session will explore key aspects of getting more satisfaction out of the work you choose to do and how to find greater balance between the demands of work and other lifestyle choices in an ever more complex and changing world. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

The major topics covered in this class include:

• How to get more out of one's work
• How to achieve greater balance between today's ever more demanding and complex demands of work without losing sight of what is important in daily routines
• Example of how to develop and be challenged by your own personal bucket list

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

Everyone has areas for improvement, so why do we avoid addressing performance issues with team members and peers? In this session, we'll explore the reasons that keep us from addressing needed performance improvements. We'll learn to overcome our fears and resignation to gain the confidence and commitment needed to deliver feedback that transforms individual and team performance. Attend this session to gain the motivation you need to address long-standing performance improvements in your firm.

The major topics that will be covered in this course include:

• Barriers that keep us from addressing areas for improvement
• Ways to get to the true root cause of performance or behavior
• Methods and language to enable us to inspire others

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

Manage distractions, decrease stress and improve productivity. This training is designed to help business professionals improve their productivity and work performance by learning how to prioritize time, decrease distractions and lower stress. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

• Identify time wasters and adopt strategies for eliminating them
• Recognize the variety of causes of procrastination and apply techniques to overcome them
• Use practical techniques for prioritizing work
• Delegation strategies
• Incorporate wellness and stress management into your day in short increments
• Understand their energy cycles and use it to manage your schedule
• Learn techniques to decrease stress in the moment (based on neuroscience)

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

Designed especially for CPAs, this class is a practical call to action that provides CPAs with the tools and inspiration they need to be better thinkers. You'll learn habits and strategies you can use every day to dramatically improve judgment and decision-making. You'll learn how to break down mental barriers and alleviate mental fatigue. You'll achieve new levels of mental clarity, flexibility, and resilience. You will also benefit from better overall mental well-being and be more resistant to stress and burnout. Attendees leave as more powerful and confident thinkers and better communicators and problem-solvers. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

The major topics covered in this course include:

• Decluttering your mind for clarity and mental bandwidth
• "Micro-habits" that transform judgment and decision-making
• A "thinking audit" process that will change your world
• Using "gamification" to solve tough dilemmas
• The science of trust
• How to see patterns others don't see
• Regulating and optimizing your mental resources
• High-stakes decision making

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

Today's senior executives use LinkedIn to impress hiring managers, find talent, develop opportunities, and build relationships. This interactive session is for the financial executive who wants to position themselves internally and externally for career success by leveraging the #1 professional digital platform. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event. The major topics covered in this class include:

• Essential elements of a compelling LinkedIn profile for a CFO
• How to build a strategic career network
• Five ways that CFOs can leverage LinkedIn as leaders of an organization
• How to get referred to new job opportunities
• Essential LinkedIn do's and don'ts for CFOs

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

Client and Engagement Management - Managing the Black Holes That Erode Profitability will provide guidance on how to maximize return on time spent with critical areas, such as budgeting, scheduling, client assistance, and delegation. Sound client and engagement management can influence both the effectiveness and efficiency of an audit engagement. Note: This course is recommended as a part of a 16-hour audit skills curriculum for in-charge or supervisor auditors, while it is also appropriate for anyone who has responsibilities for client and audit engagement management. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

The major topics covered in this course include:

• Importance of quality control on audits
• Why engagement budgets are not used, and how to overcome the barriers to success
• Determining useful budget amounts to use as a tool
• Better engagement scheduling tips for improved efficiency
• Making sure the client is ready on the first day of the audit
• Delegating for professional development and leveraging audit hours
• Handling difficult delegation scenarios
• Better engagement wrap-up tips and techniques

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

Conflict is often avoided, or dealt with in a passive manner. When ignored, conflict often escalates and can become polarizing. In this session, participants will gain insights for enhancing their natural responses to conflict, learn healthy communication styles, and build constructive behaviors to manage conflict. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Major topics covered in this course include:

• Levels of conflict
• Strategies to de-escalate conflict
• Distinction between miscommunication and conflict
• Responses to conflict
• Tactics to address, rather than avoid, conflict

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

Women finance leaders face challenges that traditional corporate training and mentoring rarely prepare them to overcome. For example, you've demonstrated yourself as an excellent tactician, you know how to get the job done, and do it very well on your own. Yet, what got you to your current level of success won't get you to the next level. It's time to change the way you think and operate in your role. You need to move from doer to leader. You're familiar with the saying that if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. In this workshop, you'll learn key strategies that are unique and critical to women to be successful in their careers. These strategies will help you grow, expand and elevate yourself professionally. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

• How to increase your visibility instead of flying under the radar.
• Critical time management techniques that allow you to focus and prioritize the right strategic initiatives.
• How your inner critic operates and how to silence it.
• How to build a network of community support and mentoring.
• What impostor syndrome is and how it may be holding you back.

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

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