The Focused CPA - Finding and Maintaining Focus in the Ag...
Multi-segment. The Focused CPA - Finding and Maintaining Focus in the Age of Distraction. One of the greatest challenges for CPAs today is maintaining a clear, focused mind amidst a sea of distractions and competing interests. This course provides participants with a clear understanding of the problem many of us are experiencing today; finding our focus, maintaining it for longer than a few minutes, being productive, accessing our brain’s ability to think more deeply and problem solve, and experiencing joy and connection, both in our work and our personal lives.
By providing participants with a sufficient understanding of the neuroscience related to focus and our survival brain, they will clearly see why they are so easily tempted by distraction, the consequences of this and the bad habits we have all developed that hamper our ability to focus. All of which has been made worse by the technology that surrounds us and constant state of change the world seems to be in these days. The course provides participants with practical tools to hone, protect and strengthen their greatest assets: their focus and where they place their attention. Since their work, productivity, creativity, judgment, and connection to clients, colleagues, and their family all depend on having the skills and tools to manage this.
Applicable for
This course is valuable for CPAs who wish to improve their productivity
Content
· The neuroscience behind distraction and why finding focus today is more difficult than ever.
· How to prevent developing an ADHD-like mind when you don’t have ADHD.
· Practical tips to eliminate or significantly manage many of the distractions that currently beckon for your attention.
· The importance of taking control of your attentional space.
· A simple practice to train and reset your brain throughout the day.
· And importantly, the tools and practices to create and maintain habit change following the course.
· A review of the concepts and tools outlined in Part 1, including a discussion of focus ‘wins’ and challenges that came up over the past week.
· Why honing, protecting and strengthening the ability to focus is a career and market differentiator, making them more rare, valuable and productive in the market today.
· How to develop the Essentialist mindset (it’s not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done).
· How to use ‘overwhelm’ as a signal from your mental ‘dashboard’ that you need to minimize what is getting into your attentional space.
· Techniques to maximize their mental energy and focus over the day, working with our biology and not against it.
· Why sleep matters more than they think and how to set themselves up for success in getting more sleep
· Why in a world filled with speed, noise and complexity, ‘stillness is the key’ to their best thinking. Participants will learn tools and techniques used by great thinkers throughout time to quiet and focus their brain.
· The tools and practices to create and maintain habit change following the course.
Seminar Leader: Scott Orth
Presented by PD Partner: Mindful Wisdom Inc.
What to Expect
· This is a Live Virtual Seminar where class size has been limited to allow for an interactive learning environment.
· This seminar will not be recorded.
· Course materials, links and credentials will be emailed to you two business days before the seminar. Once sent, the email will also be found in your Account Communication tab of the CPA Manitoba Member Portal.
· Live webinars have varying levels of expected interaction, and some may require webcam and microphone capabilities – if you have concerns about the interaction required for this course, please email [email protected]
CPA Manitoba PD Terms and Conditions
Online registration not available.