Finance Professional Workshops

Maree first conducted a professional development workshop for us a couple of years ago and we have had her back a number of times since. That is a high recommendation in itself.
Our professional development program, that has traditionally been around the development of our member’s technical and professional skills, has been enhanced by the workshops Maree conducts. Maree’s engaging style of presentation that includes discussion and interaction has allowed our members to also share their experience with others and this has been invaluable. We highly recommend Maree to any organisation who wants to develop the interpersonal, people and communication skills of its employees or members.

The training sessions provided by Maree have been highly beneficial and invaluable. Maree has provided numerous soft skill sessions as part of the Bendigo CPA Regional Branch professional development program. Maree’s ability to engage with all  levels of staff expertise in a pleasant and tranquil manner enables staff to gain confidence and achieve a greater understanding and learning.  This is demonstrated by Maree’s ability to engage with her audience and have them actively and willingly  participate.  We highly recommend Maree to any professional group wishing to develop and reward their staff with soft skill development.  The results in and outside of the workplace are evident through greater efficiency, productivity and attitude.   Our recommendation of Maree’s services are evidenced by our continued use of her services.

Maree's seminar on empowering employees and leadership I highly recommended. Recently I received a promotion, however, did not know how I could empower my employees to think outside the box and vest my time and knowledge into them, as I had not much experience in managing and empowering employees to stretch and grow. This seminar helped me to understand how important it is to invest time into your growing team. The biggest challenge was to stop what I was doing and spend the time to help my employees understand what they were doing and why, and how to research and investigate problems as opposed to just asking someone who knew. Maree suggested that I continue to invest time in my team members but instead of giving them the answers, rather ask questions. That way I was empowering them to learn and grow themselves rather than relying on me to provide all the answers. Within 2-3 months, it really paid off.

I engaged Dr Maree Harris PhD to speak at the OzPlan Financial Services Annual Conference. Her presentation was “How To Be A Highly Successful Professional”. She provided a grounding in the basics of great client relationships and then included the latest thinking from around the world on this topic; conference delegates participated with workshop activities. Maree demonstrated great interest in attendees, taking the time to talk with them informally to get to know her audience better. Since our conference I have received a lot of very positive unsolicited feedback from delegates. Many found the tools learned most helpful in their professional relationships. I would recommend Maree to any organisation aspiring to best practice in the soft skills of its personnel.

Maree provided great insight into the benefit of using ‘Soft Skills’ in the area of Performance Motivation in both our business and personal worlds. I found these were things I could easily relate to in the way Maree presented them but I hadn’t considered them in the context of managing performance at all levels of an organisation or been able to recognise the practical measures that could be used to do that.
I would thoroughly recommend Maree to anyone looking for a fresh approach to managing positive change in the way we handle the challenges we encounter in both personal and professional aspects of day-to-day life.