Professional Development Opportunities
for Members in Industry
Highlights from the CPABC PD Program for Winter 2016
Brain Focus: The Power of Full Engagement
The way we’re working isn’t working. The success you achieve in life depends
on the knowledge you possess. With vast amounts of information pouring in
every minute from hundreds of sources, acquiring the knowledge you need has
become a major challenge. This seminar gives you clear and practical ideas to help
you learn anything better, easier, and faster, and will help you master the skills of
absorbing, retaining, and using knowledge more effectively.
March 22, 2016 | Vancouver
Thinking beyond the Box: Part 1
The most significant competitive advantage you will ever possess is the ability
to think better or differently. Your destiny lies not in what you know, but rather in
what you can do with what you know. To reach your goals in life or in business,
you must change your usual analytical approach to solving problems, change the
way you look at things and how you ask (and answer) questions, and change your
point of view about yourself. In short, you must think beyond your “box”.
March 23, 2016 | Vancouver
(Part 2 will be held on March 24)
Controllership & Management Accounting
Google Productivity Tools for Accountants
This seminar is for accounting professionals of all stripes who want to quickly
master leading cloud technologies and improve how they work online individually, in teams, and across the enterprise. The seminar provides a concise
overview of Google’s hundreds of productivity applications and describes how
they can be used by accountants to reduce information technology costs, instantly
improve online performance, collaboration, communication, mobility, security,
and more.
March 14, 2016 | Vancouver
Budgeting & Financial Management: Understanding
Budgeting Variance Analysis & Forecasting
This seminar will show you how to use and understand the principles of financial
management, apply those principles to decisions that may affect financial
performance, and gain an understanding of the context within which budgets
must be managed to meet corporate reporting requirements.
March 17, 2016 | Vancouver
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Communication &
Negotiation
Communicating with
Influence
If you’ve ever been caught in the
communication circle of “that’s not
what I said/that’s not what I meant,”
then you need new skills to clearly
and effectively communicate your
message. This seminar will support
your success as a leader and manager
by teaching you how to communicate
with influence.
March 3, 2016 | Vancouver
Winning-Edge Negotiation
Skills
In our professional lives we don’t
get what we deserve; we get what
we negotiate. We all know that it is
the give-and-take of negotiations
that allows problems to be solved,
decisions to be made, and needs to be
satisfied in both our professional and
personal lives. Come learn a proven
method that is not designed to win
over your opponent, but rather to win
your opponent over.
March 9, 2016 | Vancouver