As human beings we tend to make assumptions and jump to conclusions without looking for required information or alternative solutions. Utilizing real-world examples, exercises, and tips, this webcast will help you improve your critical thinking skills and outline how to apply these skills to make better decisions in all areas.

Excel guru Ken Puls shares his advanced knowledge and techniques for generating dynamic spreadsheet models in Microsoft Excel. Follow along with course resources and examples provided to enhance your learning experience.

Excel guru Ken Puls shares his advanced knowledge for designing stable spreadsheet models in Microsoft Excel. You will learn to enforce data integrity and reduce user errors as well as to protect your model. Follow along with course resources and examples provided to enhance your learning experience .

This blog post addresses how dealing with conflict effectively is integral to any leadership role. It is an attention grabber as it is an area many shy away from. Highlighting how important it is to develop effective skill sets, it examines two major causes of conflict and provides you with tips to put healthy resolution into practice.

In this second webcast of a two-part series, budgeting and forecasting revolutionary Dr. Steve Morlidge will address the importance of understanding forecasting. This webcast will introduce six principles of forecast mastery applicable to any type of business, particularly those seeking to move away from traditional static budgeting.

In this first part of a two-part webcast series, budgeting and forecasting revolutionary Dr. Steve Morlidge will address the need for change in the budgeting model used by organizations today. Common problems with the budgeting process will be analyzed to give participants actionable takeaways to improve the budgeting process and treat the symptoms arising from the use of the current budgeting model.

Many managers think they’ve committed their organizations to evidence-based decision making — but have instead, without realizing it, committed to decision-based evidence making. Is that all bad? What can be done to fix it?

This webcast will outline how you can manage change and ensure that strategic decisions are implemented throughout your organization. Through the use of balanced scorecards and dashboards, it will address how you can better map out the future of your organization and then align day-to-day operations with long-term goals and visions.

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E-mail is the engine that drives business. Yet, amazingly, no one ever teaches us how to use it. Until now. In Part One of a two-part webcast series, you'll learn how to strategically plan your e-mail communications and get an outline for each of three different types of e-mail, complete with real-life examples.

This webcast addresses one of the fundamental challenges facing all businesses: How can we transform our decisions into successful long-term planning when we do not know what is going to happen down the road? In this session, Mark Hollingworth will provide key insights, techniques, and models that will help you better prepare for the future.

In this resource the author identifies 10 key traits of innovative leaders and entrepreneurs, those who are absolute masters at drawing profitable conclusions from problems and ideas from totally unrelated fields. He also provides tips on how you can develop and apply these traits in your own leadership.

Sometimes defining a problem is the key to its solution. So says Ben B. Graham on his website, worksimp.com. He tells us that the first step in solving any problem is understanding the problem. When this crucial first step is cast aside, the "would-be" problem-solvers rush in at full throttle contriving answers and solutions to perceived problems.

This webcast will outline the ways in which you can successfully implement analytics within both your organization and with external stakeholders. It will help you properly assess your organizational readiness for analytical decision-making, and provide you with the tools and strategy for implementation, so you can use the data you collect most effectively.

This webcast will introduce you to business analytics and show you how it can make your organization more successful. It will outline the fundamentals of analytics and the tools you need for implementation, so you can better leverage the data you gather in the many functional processes you face each day.

This session explores the many different conversation and decision-making processes, and suggests ways that each organization — and each individual — can improve their competency in this area. By better understanding these processes, you will be able to make more effective strategic decisions that can lead to greater long-term success.

This webcast introduces new approaches to using strategic management models and tools throughout your decision-making process. These approaches will allow you to develop a more complete understanding of the issues facing your organization, and help you feel more comfortable in making more thorough and effective strategic decisions.

E-mail is the engine that drives business. Yet, amazingly, no-one ever teaches us how to use it. Until now. In Part Two of a two-part webcast series, you'll get an easy-to-use template for creating first drafts of your e-mails as well as ad agency secrets for stimulating reader response.

Your competitive advantage starts here! No matter what sector of business you’ve chosen as your focus, CGA-BC’s Professional Development seminars can help you take your career and your organization to new heights.

It is in the public interest that members, firms and members of assurance teams be independent of assurance clients. This independence is necessary in order to provide a reasonable level of assurance that any engagement conducted and subsequent report issued is grounded on professional judgment that is free of conflict of interest or bias.

No matter how good a project manager you are, you can't eliminate risk in IT projects. But you can and must manage it. Since you can't manage what you can't measure, good risk metrics should be part of your project tool kit.

The decision-making techniques available to us range from the very simple to the rather sophisticated. The technique you choose for a given decision will be influenced by the importance and complexity of the decision. This article identifies a number of different techniques, and provides guidance on selecting the right one to use based on...

Are you playing the right game? Yale economist—and Honest Tea founder—Barry Nalebuff discusses how to tap Game Theory to gain the competitive edge.

Managers deal with a wide range of personalities. Most people are cooperative and reasonable. However, some employees are very difficult to be around and work with. A human resources manager states, "They're totally focused on their own agenda and needs. They cause tension and conflicts. Difficult people absorb a lot of a manager's time and...

Making ethical decisions requires the ability to make distinctions between competing choices. The Making Ethical Decisions booklet is a blueprint to help the reader arrive at sound decisions. For more than a dozen years, various versions of this publication have served as the basic primer of the Josephson Institute of Ethics, a non-profit teaching, training,...

There are five creative methods: evolution, synthesis, revolution, reapplication, and changing direction. Many classic creative thinking techniques make use of one or more of these methods. This article discusses ways to generate ideas and provides exercises for practice.

Integrative thinking is the new hype in creative and logical problem solving. We all know people who consistently come up with insights, ideas, and solutions that surprise us. People say, "She's brilliant, or I don't know how he does that." We recognize that, somehow, they are doing something different. Sometimes such people inspire awe or...

Today's business environment is in a state of continuing flux, resulting in new problems, such as doing things right instead of doing right things. The role of management accounting decision-making tools in this respect can hardly be questioned. This changing business environment ranges from uncertainty to probability, and also from single critical factor to multiple...

In conflict, communication wears two faces. It may be simultaneously the genesis of discord as well as the key to peaceful resolution; it may lead to time-wasting arguments or creative diversions. When we inadvertently or stubbornly misinterpret another's words and attribute unworthy motivations to them, poor communication skills are at work. If we...