Better Together - Diversity and Gender as allies
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Engaging effectively with diversity helps provide insight into the needs and motivations of all of your staff or clients, rather than just a small part of it. Join in exploring several intersections of diversity.
Event hosted by
Dr Nicki Spies
Date
22 August 2023
Time (SAST)
09h00 - 10h00
Ideal for
2nd year Trainee Accountants
Single ticket
ZAR 250 (incl.VAT)
ZAR 250 (incl.VAT)
Bulk enrolments
The index below represents the structure of the Live Event. You will be able to access the information contained within the index once registered. On the day of the event, you will head over to section 2 below where the Live Event will be streamed.
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Meet the instructor
Dr Nicki Spies
Dr Nicki Spies is a published author, counsellor, trainer, facilitator and business coach. She is in private practice since 2006. In her work with teams and individuals her focus is on neuro-leadership. She believes that the way people relate to one another is of great importance. “Interaction is at the core of all our relationships, with ourselves and others. Business happens in relationships.” As a qualified NBI® practitioner she is able to help you understand what your thinking preferences are and how that influence your business activities and relationships. Nicki’s approach towards coaching webinars and in person training or coaching is informal yet structured, framed by an interactive and participatory style.
Live Event series for trainees
Outcomes
- Operating within a remote/hybrid work environment internally and with clients.
- What is the change curve and how this relate to your new role as trainee accountant.
- Mastering time management within your new role as trainee accountant - use outlook calendar to your advantage!
- Your health is important – Understand the important of sleep, exercise and brain care.
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Developing effective communication skills:
- Understand the importance of effective communication in the workplace (written and verbal).
- Introduction to business writing for first year trainee accountants (including email etiquette).
- How to use Microsoft Outlook and draft professional business emails.
- How to use a translator if English is not your first language.
Live Event series for trainees
Outcomes
- Operating within a remote/hybrid work environment internally and with clients.
- What is the change curve and how this relate to your new role as trainee accountant.
- Mastering time management within your new role as trainee accountant-use outlook calendar to your advantage!
- Your health is important –Understand the importance of sleep, exercise and brain care.
Live Event series for trainees
Outcomes
- What is Microsoft office 365?
- Introduction to excel and how you will be using excel as a first year trainee accountant.
- Important excel functions you will use daily.
- What is working papers and how does this work in excel?
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- Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.
- How to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint.
- How to prepare reports, letters and communications in word in a professional manner.
- .Tips and tricks to be more efficient in Word and PowerPoint.
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Ethics masterclass dealing specifically with personal ethics:
- What are personal ethics?
- Why are personal ethics important for you?
- How do you make the right personal choices?
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Getting the most out of your CA2025 training contract experience:
- Understanding how the CA2025 training programme works.
- Developing the right attitude towards your training contract and the importance of regular reflection during the contract term.
- How assessment works and what to do to ensure that you get signed off at the end of the training contract as proficient.
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Outcomes
Introduction to auditing:
- Why are audits conducted?
- What happens when auditors get it wrong?
- How are audits conducted?
- Where do I fit in this process?
- What is expected of me during the first year?
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The financial statement assertions and audit evidence:
- Understanding the financial statement assertions and their relevance in performing audit procedures.
- Understanding the requirements for sufficient appropriate audit evidence to prove the assertions.
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Risk of material misstatement:
- Understanding what audit risk is, and the three components that affect it.
- Understanding the impact of Risk of Material Misstatement on the nature, timing and extent of substantive audit procedures.
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- In this master class trainees will touch on professional skills directly linked to developing their relational acumen and Winning with People.
- Communication skills, People skills, Relationship-building skills
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- In this master class trainees will touch on professional skills directly linked to developing their relational acumen and managing people.
- Leadership skills, Managing others, Teamwork
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Ethics masterclass dealing specifically with professional ethics:
- What are professional ethics?
- Why are professional ethics important for you?
- How do you make the right professional choices?
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- What is emotional intelligence?
- Understand and manage your emotions.
- Understand the emotions of others working with you.
- How to get your emotions to work for you,not against you.
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- Why is Cyber security important.
- What can go wrong?
- Email best practices with reference to cyber security.
- What to look out for, how to evaluate authenticity of emails etc.
- Like farming, phishing, click bait, malware.
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Ethics masterclass dealing specifically with business ethics:
- What are business ethics?
- Why is understanding business ethics important for you?
- How do you evaluate the right business choices?
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- Why a personal budget is important?
- How to prepare your budget and what tools are available.
- How to use excel for this.
- Top 3 tips in personal finance!
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What you will learn?
- Overcome your fear of speaking and be comfortable in any audience be it: selling, training or motivating
- Discover ways to project confidence and passion to build your speaking credibility
- Get speaker insights on body alignment, gestures, movement, vocal variety to align to your message
- Learn how to package your content into a relatable format that can be adapted to suit any audience
- Get coaching and feedback on your natural speaking style and what needs to change immediately
- Learn the adaptations needed to speak to 2, 20, 200 or 2000 people in a live or virtual setting
- Get comfortable with technology and learn advanced skills to engage on a virtual platform
- Practice your pitch within peer groups and get immediate feedback
- Speak more often, gain more respect and elevate your career to the next level
Dave Loxton
Bio
Dave is currently a partner at Schindlers Attorneys and the CEO of Schindlers Forensics (Pty) LTD.He was previously a partner/ director and head of the forensics departments at several of South Africa’s largest and most prestigious law firms, including ENSAfrica, Werksmans, Bowmans,as well as a brief stint at Dentons, and also spent several years as in-house counsel for one of South Africa’s largest blue-chip listed companies, specialising in employment law and litigation.He started his career as a State (Federal) Prosecutor, and prosecuted the complete range of street crimes, including rape, murder, robbery, drug-dealing, fraud, theft, forgery and uttering, and numerous other crimes. In private practice he has extensive experience in litigation matters, forensic due diligence, prosecution and his focus areas are fraud risk assessment and fraud prevention, ABC compliance, white-collar crime investigations, detection and prevention. He also conducts highly sensitive investigations for the board and chief executive officers of numerous private sector companies and provides regulatory advice and training to the private and public sectors. He is also considered an expert in Cyber Crime as well as Employment Law. David is considered a leader in his field and has been regularly recognised by independent legal directories including the Chambers and Partners Global Guide as well as Best Lawyer.He has been widely and regularly interviewed in the media on fraud, corruption and white-collar crime and cyber-crime and regularly shares his insights at conferences and seminars both inside and outside of South Africa.
Lizette Volkwyn
Bio
Lizette Volkwyn is a master life coach, published author, international keynote speaker, and one of only two certified PEI human lie detectors in South Africa.
She was born in Ladysmith, Kwazulu-Natal, and attended school in Germiston. Unable to attend university due to family circumstances, she started working as an administrative clerk and typist at a bank. Her passion for sales and marketing was sparked when she completed her estate agent diploma and joined the real estate industry, and her stint as realtor was followed by a corporate career in Office Automation and IT spanning more than two decades.
Despite her success, Lizette felt compelled to use her skills and knowledge to uplift others and help them realise their potential. This was the catalyst for the launch of her own consultancy. She embarked on a journey to obtain the necessary qualifications, completing her Master Life Coach course in 2012. This included a masters NLP Practitioner course. She also obtained her Positive Psychology certificate in 2020. In addition, she undertook the rigorous training involved in becoming a human lie detector to better understand her clients and to help them to rapidly achieve their desired results.
Today, in addition to her work as a human lie detector, Lizette offers personal life coaching, sales, leadership and communication training, self-discovery workshops, group coaching, and online marketing training. She has completed more than 25 000 one-on-one coaching hours with clients in more than 20 countries, and authored a book about self-discovery and exploration titled, Finding Me, which has sold more than 2 500 copies.
As a speaker Lizette has presented talks all over the world and has shared the stage with international thought leaders such as Robin Banks, Russell Fox, and Justin Cohen. She is also a regular guest on national radio stations, magazines, and international podcasts.
Lizette is often recognised for her work – in 2018 she was named one of the top three emerging entrepreneurs by Businesswomen of South Africa and was a Margaret Hirsch’s Businesswoman of the Year finalist. This was followed with a nomination for Changemaker SA in 2019, and Extraordinary Changemaker Africa in 2021. In 2021 she received a Business Excellence Award for Coaches and Mentors.
Lizette currently resides in Kempton Park with her husband of 36 years. The couple has three children and five grandchildren.
Dr Jerry Chetty
Bio
Dr Jerry Chetty is a Senior Manager at Santam’s Business Integrity Unit and manages the Forensics, Ethics and Intelligence teams. Jerry has over 20 years investigation experience and knowledge in the detection,