Beyond Accounting – Post COVID wellbeing and the new way of work
Perspectives from South Africa and the USA (tying in with Women’s Day in South Africa)
As the pandemic enters its third year, women have faced overwhelming mental and physical challenges in adapting to new realities. They have emerged not only different but, in many ways, stronger, more self-aware, and resilient in supporting their families, employers and wider society. In 2022, women are empowered to have a renewed focus on wellbeing. The conversation will encompass transformations over the past two years as women reflect, reconnect, and revitalize, ensuring that they are stronger, more resilient, and more self-focused than before. The session will touch on post-Covid-related anxiety, establishing boundaries within the new ways we work and policies supporting a flexible working environment.
In the first part of this session, Candice Unsworth, CA(SA), CEO of PKF South Africa and Khanya Modipa CA(SA), Global Process Manager at Google will present their perspectives on this important topic.
We will then take a discussion break for 12 minutes where we will allocate attendees to groups. When they arrive in the groups, they will be met by a group leader – one of our CAW Network USA executive team. They will then discuss the key takeaways they have from the presentations. Also, to decide a few that are ‘most important’.
We will then reconvene in a plenary session and group leads will be asked to share the most important takeaways. Then we bring the speakers back, introduce our moderator and move to Q&A for the remaining time (Est. 30 minutes).
This webinar will cover:
- Post-COVID related anxiety
- Establishing boundaries within the new ways we work
- Policies supporting a flexible working environment
- This will be followed by attendee discussion of the key items and priorities arising.
- Our speakers will then return, along with a guest speaker to take questions from the audience and feedback on results from the breakout session.
Subject Matter:
Beyond Accounting – Post COVID wellbeing and the new way of work
Perspectives from South Africa and the USA
Learning objectives:
By the end of today’s session, attendees will have achieved the following objectives:
- Understand how women is South Africa and the USA have faced up to mental and physical challenges in adapting to new realities
- The positive and negative impacts of being more self-aware, self-focused and resilient
- How to establish boundaries and agree polices to support new ways of working
- What the implications are for the accounting profession.
