PRACTICAL PD
Courses for Accountants

Up-coming live sessions

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More Works Smarts For All

This different course gives participants a wide range of useful tips, ideas and smarts to deal with the work challenges in any kind of organization.  They are illustrated with specific examples and stories obtained from real life experience.  

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This session was created and is presented by a veteran CFO Stephen Priddle who has created courses that over30,000 accountants have attended and are known for practicality, examples, and humour, who is prolific writer of published cases.   

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Since 95% of the course content applies outside Canada, it is of interest to accountants from anywhere in the world.

What you’ll learn

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• Bonus plans that work – practice designing them

• Is CYA a legitimate approach?

• A bunch meeting and email efficiency tips

• The committee agrees, but is that good?

• Avoiding company politics

• The value of the sabbatical

• Open book management or not?        

• Timing your career moves

• The value of the BS detector

• Corporate strategy – diversify or focus…

• The value of logic derived from auditing

• Defining and practicing management cultures

• And more

Who will benefit

The webinar is of interest to CPAs, business executives and managers and other employees in all kinds of organization.

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Past feedback

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• I found the course to be highly engaging and filled with practical tips that make PD feel like an exciting opportunity rather than a burden

• The content felt more like a genuine conversation or a mentorship session than just another traditional PD course.

• It was reassuring to learn that many challenges we face as managers are common, and the course provided effective strategies to overcome them

• A good mix between personal growth and management styles are considered in this course.  Thought provoking

• The topics felt really relevant and applicable to many industries, and I think we benefit from your great experience and case studies !

• The incredibly talented Stephen Priddle has managed to get yet another home run in this important training. I truly hope many business professionals will take the opportunity to learn from it

• Your personal examples and sharing things that have worked (and not worked) for you in the past is always appreciated

• You’ve had quite the career and it’s great that you’re willing to share and provide tips and tricks that you’ve accumulated.

• Appreciate the openness and honesty about CYA culture and the BS detector. Those are relevant topics that often aren’t discussed

• A useful PD course of hidden gems. You don't know exactly what you're getting until you unearth them, but they're valuable nonetheless

• Thank you so much for the presentation - I believe you will have another blockbuster here

• Recognizing that your audience comprises experienced managers who are well-versed in theory, you still manage to present creative insights and practical outcomes drawn from real-world experience, which inspires us to think outside the box

• Overall, the course delivers meaningful and applicable knowledge in an engaging and innovative way

• Kudos to you for creating such a transformative learning experience!

• A good course for the typical financial executive to deal with some usual and unusual situations

• My favorite section was the Bonus plan design.   Constructing a good bonus plan and being able to articulate it well has been challenging for me

• The presentation is easy to follow, with the pace and clarity of your speech

• This course is perfect for anyone in a management position who wants to learn from the experiences of a well-versed professional.

• The course offers valuable tips that a mentor would share, those your boss might assume you already know, and some you might wish your boss knew as well.  

• This was excellent

• I love the humour tied into your material especially with invaluable real-life examples

• You bring priceless knowledge with your personal experience embedded

• I think the content is good and has topics that, as professional accountants, can help us all to discuss and share ideas on what works, what we’ve seen etc

• I appreciate how your course offers a fresh perspective on the corporate world

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