May 2022 PD News

The Spring-Summer Professional Development season launched on April 1st. The seminar offerings include a collection of the most popular seminars over the last three years, first time offerings of hot topics and all required competency subjects. All seminars for the April 1st to August 31st session, will be in a video on-demand format.

Full Seminar Listing 

Seminar Spotlight

Workplace Focus

• How to Succeed as a First-Time Manager: Moving from an individual contributor to a first-time management role requires a major leap in your career. It’s a completely different role. Your new job is to create the conditions for others to succeed, not to do the work yourself. 
• Working Together:  Four Generations in the Workplace: A great workplace embraces the diversity of the generations, appreciates each group for their strengths, and learns to motivate and manages each group effectively.
• Intercultural Leadership: Be an effective leader in diverse contexts with team members from a variety of cultures and backgrounds. This calls for respect and an authentic desire to learn to be a better leader to diverse teams. 
• Working Remotely – The New Normal: When implemented correctly, remote work strategies can be a ""win-win"" for all involved; on the other hand, failed implementations may lead to inefficiencies, security issues and dissatisfied team members.
  

• Excel Financial Modeling Best Practices: Learn many amazing techniques that will not only help you to save valuable time when building your Excel-based models but will also improve the accuracy and quality of your results.
• Advanced Excel Reporting-Best Practices, Tools and Technique: If you need to build advanced Excel reports, including reports where the source data resides in your accounting software or another database, then this program should be at the top of your CPE list!
• Excel PivotTables for Accountants: PivotTables are the most powerful feature of Excel, yet few accountants use them in their day-to-day activities. With a little information, guidance, and demonstration, you will be ready to begin using PivotTables to accomplish routine analysis and reporting.
• Mastering Advanced Excel Functions and Formulas: Excel now has approximately 500 functions, many of which are unused by most accounting and finance professionals. This session will put you on the path to improved Excel productivity by introducing you to powerful and timesaving, but little used, Excel functions.
  

Ed4s is an impact first organization based in Montreal that is the provider of the newly offered Sustainability Accounting (SASB) on-demand seminar. Their mission is to empower individuals and companies to have a holistic way of looking at issues and opportunities and allowing them to make more integrated decisions to build more sustainable economies and societies. 

Ed4S began as a passion project, when the founder, Maria Maisuradze having assisted the PRI Quebec conference saw a pressing need to create a systemic approach to education on ESG and Sustainable Finance topics and drive conversation beyond ESG 101.

The potential to create solutions that allow anyone to get educated on sustainability topics was the main driver. Excellent student feedback for their first course ESG & Sustainable Investing 101 and appetite for similar courses has transformed a project and resulted in creation of Ed4S. They leverage on the best research out there and subject matter experts to create short ESG courses that empower people to work together on sustainability initiatives.

PD Passes
New season PD Passes are for sale and are valid until March 31, 2023. We are pleased to keep our PD Pass prices the same as they have been for the past five years. 
 
The PD Pass provides a savings option for business professionals interested in taking multiple seminars at a discounted price. The non-transferable Personal PD Pass can be used to mix and match any combination of live-stream, in-person, conference and on-demand topics.

A Corporate PD Pass can be used to mix and match any combination of live-stream, in-person, conference and on-demand topics. All staff in your organization are eligible to use it.

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