CA Source webinars are a free service for members and employers/recruiters using CA Source. Register on the CA Source website to receive notification of upcoming webinars.

The webinars are offered on a monthly basis from January-June and September-November and topics center around career advancement and staff management topics. The format is a 40 minute presentation by a featured speaker, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A.

Click the link(s) below to register for future webinars or to listen to previous sessions.

If you are interested in sponsoring a webinar, please contact Travis Gardiner: (416) 204-3284 or tgardiner@cpacanada.ca.


October 24, 2013
How to Get Your Team Back on Track
Speakers : Sandra Oliver and Claire Carver-Dias

How can you tell if your team is not as effective as it could be? What are some of the most common pitfalls for teams? What can you do when your team begins to drift off course? Business coaches Sandra Oliver and Claire Carver-Dias will offer the answers to these questions and share some relevant stories from their experiences working with teams and leaders.

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How to Get Your Team Back on Track

In this informative session, Marc Belaiche, who has been in the recruitment industry for close to 20 years, will cover:

• 20 real life stories he has encountered in the recruitment industry when placing a job seeker or working with an employer.
• The lessons you can learn from these stories, whether you are an employer, job seeker or someone looking for a career boost.

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Tales from the Recruiter

June 12, 2013
Regaining Your Productivity and Engagement at Work
Speaker: Wendy Woods

Is your mind wandering constantly? Are you working on one task only to be focused on the next ten? Despite working harder, do you feel less productive? Has your pursuit of productivity impacted your enjoyment of work and life?

The 24/7 demands of work have created more pressure and urgency resulting in greater multitasking and non-stop work. Unfortunately, these behaviours work against you by reducing your attention and increasing stress. Regaining your productivity and enjoyment at work is easier than you think.

At the end of the session, you will be able to:

• Identify your current level of attention
• Explain the impact of multitasking on your performance
• Describe strategies for regaining your productivity and enjoyment a work
• Recognize two techniques to create greater productivity during your work day

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Regaining Your Productivity and Engagement at Work

This webinar will shed light on powerful research about meaning and work – and will offer you strategies to help you get more meaning and satisfaction from your work-life. Be prepared for more than a few surprises of what you thought were conditions for happiness and fulfillment at work.

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Career Mojo: Meaning at Work

May 7, 2013
One Foot on the Accelerator and One on the Brake
Speaker: Karim Ismail

What's really holding back your career advancement? And what can you do about it? In this webinar, learn how to get the outcomes you desire not by modifying your behaviour but by first examining and changing your belief system—and then using this insight to achieve your desired career outcomes.

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One Foot on the Accelerator and One on the Brake

March 20, 2013
9 Rules for Pithy Presentations
Speaker: Helen Wilkie

Helen Wilkie is back with another lively "9 Rules" webinar, this one aimed at people who, in the course of their jobs, must make presentations on sales and marketing, budget proposals, client meetings, employee matters and just about anything else their jobs entail.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this one-hour webinar:

• The career value of presenting well
• How to capture and keep an audience's attention
• How to make effective visual aids
• How to use your appearance, voice and body language
• How to reduce presentation nerves
• How to handle questions and answers
• What to hand out and when
• How to pace the presentation and finish on time

The content is based on Helen's own experience as a professional speaker, presenting under various circumstances and to a variety of audiences over the course of her career, as well as the skills she teaches in her own presentation coaching programs. The information and techniques provided will be invaluable to anyone who must present on the job.

And that’s pretty much all of us, isn’t it?

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9 Rules for Pithy Presentations

November 22, 2012
The Ethical Advantage
Speaker: Dawn Frail

Today's leaders are faced with unrelenting change, unprecedented complexity and global diversity.

Thriving in this environment is dependent on the leader's ability to engage their workforce, and knowledge workers today are demanding a leader they can respect and trust.

Learn core principles of ethical leadership that can give you the advantage as a leader by developing your character and skills using an integrity-based leadership model.

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The Ethical Advantage

October 24, 2012
Make Your Performance Shine
Speaker: Lisa Martin
This webinar is sponsored by Robert Half. For more information, visit: www.roberthalffinance.com

Learn the six key attributes of "star" talent and how to build a winning career brand and trajectory to maximize the value and results you deliver to your organization and drive greater rewards and satisfaction for yourself.
You will benefit from:

• Measuring your leadership competencies or "star power" via the use of proprietary top talent assessment tools and exercises.
• Viewing your leadership strengths strategically and learning how to leverage your talent to exploit your potential to generate stellar results and personal satisfaction.
• Developing a strong and authentic career brand that positions you for leadership success and significance.

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Make Your Performance Shine

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Mentor Relationships that Work

October 2, 2012
The Power of Personal Branding for Career Success
Speaker: Karen Wensley
This webinar is sponsored by Ernst & Young. For more information, visit: www.ey.com

Based on the recently-published book by Karen Wensley, The Power of Personal Branding for Career Success, this webinar will focus on many thought-provoking questions such as: What do you want people to say about you? What makes you different? What do you stand for and what are you passionate about? How do you get credit for what you do?

If you have trouble answering these questions, you haven't yet tapped into the power of your personal brand. Using real life examples and a step-by-step program, this session will show you how.

You'll learn how to differentiate your brand based on your skills, experience and strengths; how to align your brand with the attributes that are valued in your workplace or career; how to find out what your brand is today; and how to make and execute a plan to build the brand you want.

Purchase the book: The Power of Personal Branding for Career Success

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The Power of Personal Branding for Career Success

September 26, 2012
Building Effective Teams
Speaker: Marc Belaiche, CA

Do you know how to get the most from teams in your organization? Do you have trouble selecting who should be on these teams?

Teams can be an extremely effective method for accomplishing goals, motivating employees and problem-solving.

In this session, we will cover the following areas:
- How to encourage maximum ideas generation
- How to empower the teams to make decisions
- How and when to reward the team

Listen to Marc Belaiche, CA, President of www.TorontoJobs.ca, speak on these topics during the webinar.

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Building Effective Teams

Do you know the answers to these questions? Probably not, and that's the problem. These are lost opportunities you may not even know about because people don't tell you.

Problems such as these can be expensive to a business but they can be substantially reduced with just one change: simplify the complex. Translate your complicated explanations and advice into plain language that anyone can understand. You'll save time, reduce frustration and get more business.

How do you simplify the complex? Sign up for our webinar on Sept. 5 and communication expert Helen Wilkie will show you how to do just that.

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Simplifying the Complex

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Explain how the brain reacts to distractions and interruptions and why it impacts productivity, decision making and creativity.
• Identify the most refreshing activities that can get your brain out of overload and back to productivity.
• Describe 3 simple strategies to get the brain functioning more effectively: organizing your day around your brain's functioning for maximum productivity, multitasking with minimal productivity impact, avoiding certain types of situations to ensure productivity.
• Highlight one simple strategy to bring meditation benefits into work in 3 minutes or less.

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Working With Your Brain, Not Against It

What to do about imposters, brand hijackers, and identity theft? What can you do if no one actually uses your social media initiative, or too many do? And how do you productively synchronize social media with your real-world networking and business development efforts?

In this fast-paced presentation, Randall Craig, author of Social Media for Business and the Online PR and Social Media series, provides practical advice and insight into these and other timely issues. Leave the session with a list of specific to-do items to reduce your organization's social media risks - and your own.

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Social Media Disaster Zone: identifying the risks and avoiding them

How do you get it all done and stay productive for extended periods? How do you maintain resilience and energy when the demands keep escalating? How do you find your mojo - that sense of wellbeing and optimism - when it appears you'll never get out from under that heavy list of to-dos?

Attend this webinar and learn strategies and tips to tame that overwhelm gremlin! A multi-faceted approach, this webinar will address various ways to stay productive, organized, hearty, resilient and optimistic in this time of unprecedented busy.

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Bogged Down and Overwhelmed? Tips and Strategies to Help you Cope

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Risk Taking

February 23, 2012
Creating Engagement through Employee Needs
Speaker: Cindy Gordon, CA, CPCC

Research studies show that less than one-third of the workforce is highly engaged. Employee engagement not only impacts your bottom line through higher absenteeism, lower productivity and negativity, but also through the relationships these employees have with your customers and suppliers. Over the past three years employers have focused less attention on engagement strategies and more on fiscal survival. In tough economic times, cost cutting measures hit employees the most through staff reductions, wage freezes or reductions and the elimination of employee incentive programs. This has left the members of organizations feeling over worked and unappreciated. Improving engagement levels by focusing on employees needs is a cost effective way to ignite motivation and regain the commitment of your employees without a huge outlay of funds.

Creating Engagement through Employee Needs will offer participants an understanding and awareness of:

- The cost of employee engagement to an organization
- Why employee needs are relevant to engagement
- The theoretical support to the significance of need as found by Abraham Maslow (1943 - A Theory of Human Motivation)
- How needs can build engagement or create disengagement
- How to create and implement cost effective engagement strategies that serve employee needs

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Creating Engagement through Employee Needs

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Career Management

- the differences between mentors and advocates
- why sponsor or advocacy programs are essential in talent development
- why advocacy relationships happen unevenly for women
- why these relationships are a significant element in the progress of women to leadership and ownership roles
- how to design and implement a program specifically for your organization

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Mentoring and Career Advocacy

- What progress have we seen in the advancement of women in the profession?
- Why do organizations want to actively work on the advancement of women?
- What is the business case for this effort?
- What are the barriers women face and what solutions exist for the barriers?

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Status of Women in the Accounting Profession

This presentation addresses the most notable changes in the workplace in the wake of the recession and lessons learned by both employees and hiring managers. It also explores generational behaviors and gaps in the workplace, myths vs. reality, and provides timely advice to help you manage and retain talented employee teams of all generations, both now and in the future.

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Managing a Multigenerational Workforce

In addition to the above topics, the session will cover the following as part of best practices when interviewing candidates:

• How to plan your search for a new employee
• Where to advertise the position − reviewing the trends
• The do's and don'ts for interviewing
• The importance of follow through
• Common errors employers make
  

Whether you are new to the hiring process or have more in-depth experience, this webinar should be relevant to anyone in an organization responsible for interviewing candidates.

Listen to Marc Belaiche, CA, President of www.TorontoJobs.ca, speak on these topics during the webinar.

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Best Practices in Interviewing Candidates

The audience will learn:
- How to write for your audience
- The value and use of simple words
- How to cut out fluff and redundancy
- How to use inclusive, gender neutral language
- The importance of correct grammar and syntax
- How to use the right word in the right context
- How to inject vigor into business writing by using the active voice
- How to untangle convoluted sentences
- How to write to express, not to impress

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9 Rules for Better Business Writing

August 18, 2011
Business Etiquette: The New Rules in a Digital Age
Speaker: Christine Lucy
This webinar is sponsored by Robert Half

Is it ok to friend your boss? Can an e-mail mistake jeopardize your career? There are many gray areas when it comes to communicating in the digital age.

This presentation provides guidelines on digital protocols in the workplace, including LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, as well as traditional communication tools such as e-mail. Find out what executives say about etiquette in the workplace, and learn how to tend to your network in just five minutes a day.

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Business Etiquette: The New Rules in a Digital Age

Understanding your stress composition is the key to reducing and managing stress. Learn simple stress-busting techniques that take five minutes or less, leading to reduced reactivity and greater productivity.

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Managing Stress So It Doesn't Manage You

• Explore the 8 key factors that make up personality patterns
• Understand how someone’s type affects their ability to get results
• Improve interpersonal skills, manage change more effectively, and reduce team conflict

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Unleashing Greatness through the Power of Personality

February 24, 2011
Is Your Corporate Culture Having Its Intended Impact?
Speaker: Cindy Gordon, CA, CPCC

How succinctly do your actions, strategies and communications depict your intended corporate culture? How clear are your mission, vision and values? Are all members of your organization acting in accordance with your values? Do you monitor the impact your culture is having on your employees, customers and potential customers?

Your corporate culture is the foundation of your company — the message of who you are, what you stand for and what makes you unique from your competitors. Because of its significance, it is vital that your culture impacts its audience as intended.

This presentation will offer an increased understanding and awareness of:

• The importance of having a codified corporate culture;
• The significance of having business strategies that supports your corporate culture;
• The difference between an authentic culture and a marketing-based culture;
• How your corporate culture is perceived by others;
• The “unsaid rules” in your organization that are really formulating your corporate culture.

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Is Your Corporate Culture Having Its Intended Impact?

This webinar will offer strategies and tips for giving meaningful feedback in both positive and difficult situations. Learn how to use feedback opportunities to boost performance, build trust, confidence and enhanced engagement.

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Feedback that Fuels Success

This presentation offers an overview of the hiring outlook in corporate accounting and finance, public accounting, banking, and financial services, and it discusses areas such as the skills and positions in greatest demand and salary trends.

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2011 Accounting and Finance Hiring and Compensation Outlook

If you need help answering these and other related questions, you'll want to participate in this webinar.

Some of the tips you can expect out of the session include:

• How to keep your employees motivated at work
• How to keep your employees engaged in their work
• Ways to reward your employees, regardless of the size of your company or budget limitations

Listen to Marc Belaiche, CA, President of TorontoJobs.ca, speak on these and other related topics during this webinar.

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Engaging and Rewarding Employees

This webinar presentation is designed for business and professional people at all levels who must write and manage email in the course of their jobs — and today that’s virtually everybody.

Here is what you will learn in this fast-paced webinar:

• Email’s role as a communication medium
• How to create a subject line that makes people read your message
• How to make your email visually reader-friendly
• How to get to the point quickly
• How to write the message effectively
• How to get people to answer your email
• How to hit the right level of formality
• How to manage your email for high productivity

Nine Rules for Excellent Email Etiquette offers practical information in an easily absorbed format, and you will be able to make use of the principles as soon as you return to your desk.

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Nine Rules for Excellent Email Etiquette

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10 Secrets Your Employees Aren’t Telling You

The ‘Yes Addiction' can be tiresome and get in the way of your fulfillment and your success. But there are many times when it does make sense to say yes, and breaking the no habit can be equally important!

On April 21st say YES to attending the CICA webinar! This webinar will provide tips on how to break your yes habit and replace it with more effective ways of responding to both yourself and others. The webinar will outline tips and strategies for building your own awareness, resolve and courage as well as practical tips in learning how to say "No" without the guilt, trepidation and fear of compromising relationships! We'll also address the danger of an over-expressed ‘No' habit and find the balance back to meaningful Yes!!

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Are you Addicted to the Yes Habit?

March 2, 2010
Demystifying your BlackBerry
Speaker: Darci LaRocque

Frazzled by all the various options on your BlackBerry? Do you know what "BIS or BES" is? Do you need to patch your BlackBerry and what is patching? What is this thing called BBM and PIN'ing? How much is your BlackBerry really costing you? Let's take some time and learn some key information about your Smartphone so you can become more efficient and save money. Attend this webinar and impress your friends and colleagues with your new-found knowledge.

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Demystifying your BlackBerry

This webinar compares and contrasts the perspectives of hiring managers and workers. It provides insights into how workers feel about their jobs now, how both employees and employers are likely to respond to an improving economy and what qualities managers will look for in new hires. It also offer tips for overcoming common job search challenges and getting noticed in an increasingly competitive job market.

The material in the presentation is based on Robert Half International and CareerBuilder's fifth annual Employment Dynamics and Growth Expectations (EDGE) Report.

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Employment and Hiring Trends