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Go for Growth
- Over 70,000 professional development courses, videos and resources
- Access to courses on demand, online – where and when it suits you
- CPD hours as you learn valuable skills for your professional practice
Your complete elearning solution
You’re an expert on tax matters. What about everything else? Through the Go for Growth eLearning portal, you’ll develop vital skills for working with clients, running your own practice or advancing in your career.
For a single annual fee, Go for Growth offers:
Relevant skills for your growing practice
Sometimes, it takes more than sharp tax technical skills to succeed. From maximizing skills and productivity, to onboarding new employees or avoiding compliance and HR hiccups, regular professional development puts your team a step ahead of the competition.
Become a more effective leader
As your business grows, you’ll find yourself needing to grow as a leader as well. Through Go for Growth, you can improve your communication skills, learn how build a positive team culture and gain the confidence to navigate tricky interpersonal situations.
Taught by experts
Learn from the best in the business. Go for Growth courses are provided by world-leaders in their respective specialties, including Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Skillsoft, The Career Academy, Mindtools and many more.
What will you learn next?
Go for Growth puts thousands of courses on important topics right at your fingertips. You and your team can explore thousands of modules across Personal Development, IT Skills, Business Skills and Safety and Compliance, as well as some courses tailored to specific industries, such as Financial and Insurance Services.
Members: $299 inc GST
Non-members: $375 inc GST
Business Basics
The world of business is competitive, which means it takes more than just determination to succeed – there’s also certain skills you need to possess to make it to the top.
- Business ethics
- Business writing
- Facilitating sustainable change
- Planning and implementing financial management approaches
- Project management basics
- Six sigma improvement techniques
- Strategic product and service management
Compliance, Health and Safety
Whether you’re a small business or a large global company, all organisations need to make sure that they stay compliant and up-to-date with the regulations of the workplace, and providing a safe space for their employees to work in.
- Bullying, harassment and sexual harassment
- Equal employment opportunity
- Phishing, privacy, data protection and personal information
- Social media in the workplace
- Armed robbery safety awareness
- Duty of care for workers
- Injury management
- Work health and safety legislation
Sales
To successfully grow your business you need to know how to connect with clients, communicate, negotiate and close the deal.
- A framework for inbound lead generation
- Common marketing failures
- Discovering customer wants and needs
- Know your competition
- Sales tools and technology
- The sales call flow
Communication Skills
Effective communication is an important skill, whether it’s in a written email, a meeting, presentation, or simply a conversation with a co-worker.
- Communicating effectively with clients
- Dealing with sensitive issues
- Designing a customer service strategy
- Difficult people: why they act that way and how to deal with them
- Effective business communication
- Facing and resolving conflict in the workplace
- Navigating the workplace with emotional intelligence
- Presenting with confidence
Customer Service
Going that extra mile with your company’s customer service will set you apart from your competition.
- Handling customer complaints and dealing with angry and upset customers
- Listening to and meeting customer needs
Human Resources
The management of employees – a company’s human resources – is central to the success of any organisation, as a business is only as good as its people!
- Creating a strong team culture
- Dealing with workplace conflict
- Employment contract fundamentals
- Grievance procedures
- Maternity and paternity
- Performance and rewards
- Work place rules and policies
IT Skills
We live in the digital age where technology is everywhere, including in the workplace. Build the digital skillset of your team, increase efficiencies and develop employees for the future.
- Advanced Excel
- Introduction to data science
- Macros and advanced queries in Excel 2016
- Maintaining, protecting, and reviewing documents in Word 2016
- Microsoft tools including Project, SharePoint, Visio and more
Management and Leadership
Leadership is more than just giving out orders and assigning tasks. It’s about using your passion to motivate your fellow colleagues and inspiring them to work towards a common goal with you.
- Aligning unit goals and imperatives
- Assessing your own leadership performance
- Building innovation cultures and leaders
- Building trust with employees
- Effective decision making
- Inform and inspire your team
- Motivating your employees
Project Management
New projects take more than just an idea to get off the ground – they need strategy, planning and execution to be successful.
- AGILE project planning
- Keeping your project on budget
- Navigating through changes and conflicts in projects
- PMBOK® Guide Fifth Edition
- PRINCE2® Project Management
- Project lifecycle
- Project planning and risk management
- Risk analysis, management and planning
- Using lessons learned for continuous improvement
Finance
As a tax professional you’ll be across the key aspects of your businesses finances, but what about your support staff? Ground them and give them a better understanding of your core business and you’ll all be speaking the same language.
- Basic accounting concepts for non-financial professionals
- Basic budgeting for non-financial professionals
- Financial statement analysis for nonfinancial professionals
- Key accounting concepts and principles
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