Dates and location
Hours
Dates and location
Hours
Descriptions
CPAs often work in fast-paced environments where competing priorities, tight deadlines, stakeholder expectations, and high-stakes decisions can create significant pressure. The ability to manage stress, regulate emotions, and remain composed during challenging situations is essential for maintaining professional judgment, building strong relationships, and performing effectively in leadership and advisory roles.
This practical course supports the development of key CPA enabling competencies, including Professionalism and Ethical Behaviour, Communication, Self-Management, Leadership, and Problem Solving and helps participants develop strategies to manage workplace stress, strengthen emotional self-control, and build habits that support long-term productivity and well-being. Through hands-on techniques and real-world workplace applications, participants will learn how to remain focused under pressure, communicate effectively during difficult conversations, overcome behaviours that contribute to unnecessary stress, exercise sound professional judgment, and sustain high performance in demanding accounting, finance, and business environments.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, participants will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Recognize personal stress triggers and develop strategies to remain calm and effective during demanding situations.
- Manage emotional energy more effectively to enhance workplace performance and maintain a healthier work-life balance.
- Strengthen self-control and communicate professionally when navigating challenging conversations or emotionally charged situations.
- Identify and overcome workplace habits such as procrastination and perfectionism that can contribute to stress and reduced productivity.
- Build resilience and maintain focus when managing multiple priorities, deadlines, and stakeholder expectations.
- Follow through on commitments, turn intentions into action, and achieve professional and personal goals more consistently.
Who Will Benefit
This course is especially relevant for CPAs, CPA candidates, accountants, auditors, financial analysts, finance managers, controllers, directors, partners, and professionals seeking to strengthen their resilience, emotional intelligence, and effectiveness in high-pressure workplace settings.
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.
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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.