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Coach your team to boost collaboration and generate results.

An integral part of a manager’s role is to grow and nurture employee talent. This CPA Ontario webinar will teach managers how to coach their teams to greater performance. Managing by coaching encourages an employee’s ability to problem solve, make decisions and follow through. Participants will experience a coaching session, prepare a coaching strategy and script a coaching conversation.

This workshop will discuss the significance of adopting a coaching mindset and key techniques to coach effectively. Participants will learn to distinguish coaching from other employee development interventions. This course is an excellent add-on to the CPA seminar Management Skills 101: Performance Management and Development.

This course provides CPAs with the tools to consider business ethics in specific situations. Group case work is done to analyze ethical and unethical approaches to making business decisions. It examines the impact of ethical behaviour on the company’s bottom line and its stakeholders. It assesses tough ethical issues that board members, managers and auditors encounter in fulfilling their duties. Case studies are also utilized to analyze ethical and unethical approaches to important business decisions. The CPA Code of Professional Conduct is examined, which all CPAs are required to comply with. CPAs will be empowered to work as leaders and influence and participate in ethical decision making in their companies.

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Explore the relationship between ethics and psychological safety, and ethics and new technologies.

PART 1 – PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY

Psychological safety is a belief that you are free to share your thoughts and not be punished for speaking your mind. It is an important area of research in the field of organizational behaviour.

In the first part of this ethics course, you will examine current research to understand psychological safety for organizations and teams better. You will learn ways to assess and improve psychological safety for both organizations and teams.

PART 2 – PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND TRANSFORMATIVE TECHNOLOGY

The second part of this ethics course will introduce the transformative technologies of big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain and help participants understand the ethical implications of using these technologies.