The state of mental wellness in the profession

Accounting, finance, tax, and other business professionals are constantly challenged by change. The profession is experiencing pressure from different sources and angles, having its stability, credibility, and overall professional image challenged worldwide. Whilst restoring trust in the profession through extensive reskilling is highest priority, it is important not to forget that the profession consists of nothing other than its “PEOPLE” – i.e., human beings. The members of these professions experience the very same pressures of credibility, remaining fit and ready for the future world of work, and ensuring that their actual intelligence outruns the rapid developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and technology until they can safely retire. It does not require a highly educated psychiatrist to know that professional (and personal) burnout will be prevalent in these professions.

In this learning session, Mark Sham, founder of Suits & Sneakers, discusses the early signs of professional burnout, and how to be on the lookout for these signs in oneself, as a professional person, but also in others, such as colleagues, peers, and those who work under our supervision. Accounting professionals are business leaders, and part of leadership is caring about those we work with, through leading by example. Hence our own mental health is vital in ensuring the mental health of the teams we work in. Join CPD Campus for this very interesting session with Mark, a hugely popular professional speaker on the topic. 

In attending this session, you will be developing the following professional competencies:  

• Main competency group: Professional values and attitudes
• Sub-competency group: Lifelong learning
• Specific competency/ies: Agility; Self-development
  
  
• Main competency group: Enabling and future competencies
• Sub-competency group: Relational acumen
• Specific competency/ies: Teamwork/people skills; Emotional resilience; Self-management; Managing others