Dates and location
Hours
Dates and location
Hours
Description
As CPAs advance into supervisory and leadership roles, they often become responsible for hiring, developing, coaching, and managing employees. Whether leading a finance team, overseeing an accounting function, managing audit staff, or supervising project teams, understanding fundamental HR practices and employment-related responsibilities is essential for building high-performing teams while minimizing organizational risk.
This course supports the development of key CPA enabling competencies, including Leadership, Communication, Collaboration, Professionalism, and Ethical Behaviour and provides new and emerging leaders with the foundational HR knowledge and people management skills needed to confidently navigate employee-related responsibilities. Participants will learn how to recruit and onboard talent effectively, establish clear expectations, address performance concerns, and foster a culture of accountability and engagement. The session also explores common legal and workplace risks that managers should understand, along with practical leadership strategies for motivating and developing employees.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Conduct effective interviews and onboard new employees to support productivity, engagement, and long-term success.
- Establish clear expectations regarding performance, workplace culture, accountability, and professional conduct from day one.
- Document employee performance concerns appropriately and address issues in a timely and professional manner.
- Apply performance management and disciplinary processes effectively while maintaining fairness and consistency.
- Coach and develop employees to encourage growth, accountability, and high performance.
- Recognize common employment-related risks and avoid management practices that can create legal or workplace challenges.
- Apply practical HR insights and best practices to support effective employee management.
- Demonstrate inspirational leadership techniques that foster engagement, trust, and team performance.
Who Will Benefit
This course is especially relevant for senior accountants, finance managers, controllers, directors of finance, audit managers, tax managers, team leads, and other professionals who oversee or are preparing to oversee employees and teams.
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.