Teaching CPAs to be Better Thinkers 2024

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  • Date/Time
    • Jan 29, 2025
    • Sign In: 10:30am (MT)
    • Program: 11:00am - 1:00pm (MT)
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  • Location
    • Your Computer
      Your Space
      ISCPA / CalCPE Webinar, ID 00000
  • Credits
    • 2.00
  • Credit Type(s)
    • Personal Development (2.00)
  • Prerequisites
    • None

  • Vendor
    • California CPA Education Foundation
  • Level
    • Basic
  • Fields of Study
    • Personal Development

Description

An essential class for those who routinely face complex, high-value decisions in high-stress environments, including CEOs and CFOs, first responders and surgical teams, policymakers, auditors, or investigators. This class takes you beyond critical thinking and teaches you how to use your cognitive strengths to develop a thinking system-powerful cognitive tools that enable better thinking under pressure, deep-structure insights for powerful problem-solving abilities and highly effective communication when it counts, all while building ongoing mental wellness for clarity and avoiding burnout. Learn how to audit your thinking, synthesize your ideas and achieve clarity under pressure. The tools you learn will benefit all areas of your life. You will be a more flexible, adaptable, creative, resilient and confident thinker.

  • Presenters - Toby Groves, Ph.D
  • Designed For

    Designed For: Analysts and investigators, auditors, accountants, attorneys, law enforcement, governance, and compliance professionals, or those working in the IT, HR, legal, or medical profession as well as executives, policymakers and other decision makers interested in improving critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
  • Role Level - Entry-level/Individual contributor; Manager/Senior Manager; Director; Executive/VP; C-Suite; Sole Practitioner; Board
  • Objectives

    • Recognize thinking approaches to improve emotional reactivity
    • Determine "First Principles Thinking" methods
    • Identify three decision-making biases that diminish thinking quality

    Highlights

    • How to develop a thinking system
    • Understanding complex problem structures
    • Conducting a thinking audit
    • Skeptical reasoning
    • Systems thinking
    • Understanding memory

    Advanced Prep

    None

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    Leaders

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