Teaching CPAs to be Better Thinkers 2024
2.00 Credits
Member Price $89
Non-Member Price $119
Overview
An essential class for those who routinely face complex, high-value decisions in high-stress environments, including CEOs and CFOs, first responders and surgical teams, policymakers, auditors, or investigators. This class takes you beyond critical thinking and teaches you how to use your cognitive strengths to develop a thinking system-powerful cognitive tools that enable better thinking under pressure, deep-structure insights for powerful problem-solving abilities and highly effective communication when it counts, all while building ongoing mental wellness for clarity and avoiding burnout. Learn how to audit your thinking, synthesize your ideas and achieve clarity under pressure. The tools you learn will benefit all areas of your life. You will be a more flexible, adaptable, creative, resilient and confident thinker.
Highlights
- How to develop a thinking system
- Understanding complex problem structures
- Conducting a thinking audit
- Skeptical reasoning
- Systems thinking
- Understanding memory
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
Analysts and investigators, auditors, accountants, attorneys, law enforcement, governance, and compliance professionals, or those working in the IT, HR, legal, or medical profession as well as executives, policymakers and other decision makers interested in improving critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Objectives
- Recognize thinking approaches to improve emotional reactivity
- Determine "First Principles Thinking" methods
- Identify three decision-making biases that diminish thinking quality
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Toby Groves, Owner, Groves Research and Consulting
Toby Groves is a cognitive scientist and speaker on expert judgment and critical thinking, known for delivering unconventional talks that engage audiences in dramatic, live experiments. He teaches professionals how to tap hidden networks that maximixe their powers of sound reasoning. A popular speaker amongst government, academics and private organizations, Groves serves professionals that provide society’s most critical services including audit, intelligence, investigative, medical, financial and legal communities.
Trained in a unique combination of forensic psychology and forensic accounting, Groves is a doctoral level researcher in cognitive psychology. His commentary and stories have been featured on media outlets such as NPR, numerous professional journals, and is studied by leading researchers and business schools around the world.
Non-Member Price $119
Member Price $89