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CQ Originals: Active Listening

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CQ Originals: Active Listening

Become an active listener and sharpen your critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Active listening unlocks other soft skills like team management, collaboration, and negotiation.

$59 - $69

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Format

Online

NASBA Field of Study

Communications and Marketing

Level

Basic

CPE Credits

Author(s)

Anna Zucchi, Xiaoqing Wang, Clare Stewart Munn

Availability

1 year

Product Number

BMCQCC121SSO

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Product Details

The communication program for the leader in all of us.

Listen actively

Cultivate your ability to communicate with your team and clients clearly and at the right time through flexible, adaptable learning that fits your schedule.

Learn along with an AI robot to recognize spoken and unspoken cues in a conversation about a common business problem and gain an understanding of listening styles — passive, competitive, selective, and active.

Understand deeply

Harnessing the power of edutainment, reinforce your understanding with analytical interactions that bridge what you see and hear to your new understanding.

Behavioral science connects your intellectual intelligence and your emotions as you engage in active, focused listening throughout the course.

Learn to suspend judgment and listen with intention to understand others’ points of view, motivations, thoughts, and expectations.

Think powerfully

Employ your new core skill to unlock additional competency in management, critical thinking, and problem-solving for you and your teams.

Understand how active listening can bridge the communications gap in your organization to maximize efficiency, reduce conflict, retain talent, and increase profits.

Discover your inner leader and harness the power of effective communication through CQ Originals, a learning program owned and produced by BoxMedia.

This course meets CPD requirements for the following organizations: CPA Australia, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, Bar Standards Board, Institute of Management Consultants (IMCUSA), Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), and Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS).

Who Will Benefit

Accounting and finance professionals
Management accounting professionals
Leaders and managers
Non-finance professionals in key departments including sales, digital, HR, and IT

Key Topics

Listening styles
Leadership skills
Self-development
Career progression
Interpersonal relationship management
Crisis and conflict management
Improving productivity

Learning Outcomes

Distinguish between active listening, passive listening, competitive listening, and selective listening

Credit Info

CPE Credits

Online

NASBA Field of Study

Communications and Marketing

Level

Basic

Prerequisites

None

Access

Online

This is a digital product. With full paid access the content will be available to you for 1 year after purchase date.

For more information, please refer to CPE requirements and NASBA sponsorship information

Pricing

Do you have an AICPA membership? Log in to apply your member discount.

Nonmembers

Online

$69.00

AICPA Members

Online

$59.00

Group ordering for your team

2 to 5 registrants

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6+ registrants

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Instructors

Anna Zucchi

A licensed clinical psychologist, Anna Zucchi is a leading FT psychologist on the CQ Originals R&D team with BoxMedia. Born in Milan, she graduated achieving a BSc Psychology at City University of London and then began at King's College London, having to return to Italy she earned a Master Degree in Clinical Psychology with honors at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. Among her research projects she carried out a study to investigate episodic memory in Autism Spectrum Disorder and a year-long design and implementation of an Education and Finance role play instrument for inmates to help them develop their future planning skills in a long-term work project after their release, and to help them tackle with the evaluation of risks, resources, strategies and budget. She participated in research projects such as the validation of the Italian version of the psychometric test Spectra and received a specific training for the administration and scoring of the BRIEF-2, CDI-2: G E MASC-2 and Figura di Rey tests, the Italian validation of the Relationship Profile Test (RTP) and the recruitment and administration to clinical patients of the RTP and Personality Assessment Inventory tests (PAI). Her academic and on the field projects in clinical psychology are being directly applied to BoxMedia and CQ Matrix learning methodology and products.

Xiaoqing Wang

An award winning creative director, having won the prestigious George Wittenborn Memorial Award twice and the AIGA’s 50 Books/50 Covers award five times. Wang also teaches typography at Otis College of Art and Design. A Creative Director for CQ Originals and brand. After pursuing journalism and international studies at Virginia Tech, Xiaoqing shifted her attention to graphic design and after receiving her MFA from CalArts in 2006, Wang worked in branding and digital design in San Francisco with The Communication Group, (TCG Agency) before joining Green Dragon Office in Los Angeles in 2008.

Clare Stewart Munn

An Emmy Award winning producer, Clare Munn’s global experience spans technology, business and executive strategy, as well as filmmaking and digital content creation. Moreover, Clare’s experience in the world of professional communication, coaching, and active listening saw her trademarking CQ: Communication Quotient: Expressive & Receptive Intelligence in 2010 and founding CQ Matrix, LLC to continue research and development on cognitive science and psychology associated with communication and learning. This has led to the creation of CQ Originals courses developed by BoxMedia. Clare has taken her passion for communication to the world’s stage as a renowned public speaker and writer for the likes of CNET, Dwell, TEDWomen, AOL, California Women’s Conference and The Huffington Post. Clare is also a three-time Emmy-award winning and Oscar-nominated producer and film executive. With a passion for learning that started in childhood, Clare’s dedication and vision saw her start the first multidimensional online management and employee training and compliance company. Clare joined another ed-tech start-up, helping raise Series B (22m) and this too had an exit in 2004. In 2004, Clare went on to launch an award-winning digital advertising, social impact and social media agency, The Communication Group, (TCG) - with clients including Hitachi, Maxtor, Cisco, McKesson, AMD, eBay, Genentech, Hylands, Chantecaille, Naturopathica, Danskin, Eddie Bauer. TCG also became the first 50 green-certified companies in San Francisco. Clare co-founded BoxMedia in 2016. This innovative B2B edutainment ed-tech company is on a mission to redefine learning with a focus on employability through cognitive science, CQ™, neuroscience, unique behavioural change methodologies, and AI. As well as developing BoxMedia’s own library of products focused on employable skills. BoxMedia also partners with established companies including Pearson Education, Accenture, and AICPA-CIMA co-developing world-class learning products as well as building their own leading-edge learning platform - BoxPlay. BoxMedia was one of the first 100 companies to sign the Equal Pay Pledge, have made a company-wide anti-racism pledge and are actively working on becoming net carbon zero.

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