Teaching CPAs to be Better Thinkers 2024

Friday, September 27, 2024

Webcast or Webinar, Online

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (opens at 12:30PM) EST

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Course Type: Webcast

Course Code: 24/2126480

Level: Basic

Vendor: California CPA Education Foundation

Field of Study: Personal Development

Overview:

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.

Objectives:

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

Major Topics:

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

Major Topics:

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

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.

Prerequisites:

None