Dates and location
Hours
Dates and location
Hours
Description
Today's CPAs are expected to build strong relationships, collaborate across functions, influence decisionmakers, and serve as trusted advisors to clients, executives, boards, and business partners. Whether leading projects, managing client relationships, supporting strategic initiatives, or driving organizational change, success depends on the ability to engage stakeholders, build credibility, and communicate effectively.
This course supports the development of key CPA enabling competencies by strengthening participants' ability to build trusted relationships, communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, influence outcomes through collaboration and leadership, and uphold professionalism in client and business interactions. Participants will learn how to build a 360-degree network, understand stakeholder needs and priorities and engage them strategically, foster alignment across teams, and incorporate multiple perspectives into problem-solving and decision-making, enhancing their effectiveness as trusted advisors and business partners.
Through practical tools and strategies, participants will enhance their ability to navigate complex relationships, align diverse interests, and contribute more effectively to organizational success.
Key Topics:
- Building a 360-Degree Network
- Becoming a Trusted Advisor
- Identifying and Managing Your Stakeholders
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Build stronger relationships with clients, executives, regulators, colleagues, and business partners to support collaboration and business outcomes.
- Enhance their effectiveness as trusted advisors by understanding stakeholder needs and aligning recommendations with organizational objectives.
- Communicate insights, recommendations, and decisions more persuasively to gain stakeholder support and buy-in.
- Strengthen their ability to manage diverse stakeholder interests, expectations, and priorities across projects and initiatives.
- Increase professional credibility, influence, and leadership presence through effective relationship management and networking.
- Improve collaboration across cross-functional teams by fostering trust, alignment, and productive communication.
- Contribute more strategically to organizational success by applying stakeholder management, communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills in complex business environments.
Who Will Benefit
This course is valuable for CPAs and finance professionals, consultants and other client-facing professionals who regularly build relationships, influence stakeholders, and collaborate across teams, as well as seek to strengthen their networking, stakeholder management, and trusted advisor capabilities.
Disclaimer
Canadian Management Centre is CPA Ontario's content provider for this PD Course. As a condition of your participation, you acknowledge and agree that you will not:
- Copy, modify, adapt, translate, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Canadian Management Centre content, technology or software;
- Rent, lease or assign Canadian Management Centre to any third party;
- With the exception of any information or materials necessary to fulfill PD Course requirements or complete PD Course exercises, download any training tutorials or any other text, multimedia images (graphics, audio and video), data and other information provided in connection with the Canadian Management Centre; or
- Allow access to the Canadian Management Centre training solutions by any user other than yourself.
How to Access the Course
To access your course, visit the CPA Ontario Blackboard site and sign in using the same username and password used for the Registration Portal. You can also access your course through the Blackboard Learn app (iOS or Android).
Important: Course access begins on the date of purchase and remains available for the Access Time specified for the course under Dates and Location. Please review the access time before purchasing. Note that it may take up to 15 minutes after registration for the course to appear in Blackboard.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal, and other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
For more than 60 years, Canadian Management Centre (CMC) has helped professionals develop the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to achieve excellence, adapt to change, and thrive in an increasingly complex and competitive environment. Through practical and results-oriented learning and development solutions, CMC empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to enhance their performance and achieve their goals. Serving hundreds of clients across Canada each year, CMC works with organizations ranging from private sector businesses and government agencies at all levels to international organizations through its global network. Regardless of industry or sector, CMC’s clients share a common objective: to strengthen their impact, advance their careers, contribute more effectively to organizational success, and achieve greater personal and professional fulfillment.