Dates and location
Pricing
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Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
As a CPA, finance professional, or someone wanting to make a difference, you work in a continuously shifting business environment. In this certificate program, you will learn how to lead, plan, and create sustainable operational and strategic change within your organization. How you proact, react and prepare for change with your teams and colleagues is critical to company culture and success. Change management and enablement is multifaceted and needs to be done strategically.
Our Change Leadership program will equip you with the tools to gain support for new processes and plans as well as address challenges that may impede a successful change management initiative. Using interactive case studies and group activities, participants will learn how to evaluate, identify, and advance change in their organization. This program is a unique opportunity for leaders and managers to develop action plans that address change management in their organization.
- Learn how to evaluate, identify, and advance change in your organization from interactive case studies and group activities.
- Learn skills and tools that will help youto assess both operational and global socio-economic challenges and how they impact your organization.
- Build and develop sustainable, strategic change within your team and organization.
- Develop an action plan to address a specific change you want to make in your organization.
Before registering for this session, please note, it is going to be an in-person session and will be held at the Vantage Venues at 150 King Street West in Toronto. You MUST attend in person to participate, there will not be an option to join this session virtually.
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Schedule
- October 28, 2024, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- October 29, 2024, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- October 30, 2024, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- October 31, 2024 - November 6, 2024 - 2-3 hour online optional exam, to be done on your own time during this week (can be done in parts within the week).
Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Implement frameworks to align people and processes with change strategies.
- Assess your organization's specific needs and readiness for change.
- Develop a proactive vision for change.
- Deploy strategies to prepare your organization for change.
- Hone your skills and abilities to become an effective change agent.
- Develop and execute action plans to facilitate meaningful change in your organization.
- Strategize ways that help you adapt to the challenges of constant change.
Earn a Digital Badge
Our new collection of digital badges can be earned through the completion of any of our certificate programs offered in our professional development catalogue. Collect these digital badges to add to your website, social profiles, email signature and more. These badges are an easy way to visually communicate your skills and accomplishments to your peers and network. Digital badges will be awarded based on course completion requirements.
Who Will Benefit
Leaders and managers in finance or operations departments who are responsible for leading change initiatives within their organization such as:
- Vice President / Director of Operations
- Vice President / Director Finance
- Director of Accounting
- Finance Director
- Financial Controller
- Finance Manager
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Attendance Requirements
Learners who complete the program are eligible to write an optional exam. A Digital Badge will be awarded only to those who successfully complete the exam. Course email confirmations for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) tracking purposes will be sent to all participants regardless of exam participation.
How to Access the Course
We're pleased to invite you to register for our Certificate courses. Whether or not you're a CPA, you're more than welcome to join us on this learning journey. To get started, you'll need to create an account. Don't worry if you don't have a CPA Ontario ID yet; you can easily set up your account right here. Let's begin your learning adventure together.
Electronic material can be accessed one week prior to the course and should be downloaded in advance.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Dr. Gene Deszca is a Professor Emeritus in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University where he played major leadership roles in program development in both the MBA and international business areas. He has published and/or presented more than 100 papers, cases, monographs and technical papers, as well as six books (with coauthors), the most recent being Organizational Change: An Action Oriented Toolkit, (5th ed.). He has served on both public and private sector boards, including six years on the board of the Society of Management Accountants of Canada. He continues to deliver workshops, consult, write, and teach internationally in graduate business programs. His current research focus is on organizational change and the evolution of organizations under the stress due to disruption.