Updates on team management including engagement and coaching strategies
What sort of accounting firm do you think will own the future? One that provides a broad range of accounting and advisory services or one that specialises in a particular service? One that knows what type of client it wants to attract or one that will embrace anyone...
Great talent makes your accounting practice - employees deliver output and secure long-term client relationships. This makes getting any new recruit up and running quickly in your team critical. Once you have selected a new candidate to work for you, they need to be...
Over many years of working with accountants I have concluded there are many skills that are important for accountants. Putting aside the technical skills, I’ve identified three non-technical skills that I believe are core to the success of most accountants and the...
Anyone who has ever worked in a professional firm knows how important leverage is in achieving strong results for both the firm and clients. Leverage allows work to be assigned to people with the most relevant skills at the most appropriate cost base. And it’s this...
It’s been a year of learning, change, and adaptation; particularly for how we run our businesses. For many, it’s been the first time we’ve had to work remotely for more than a day or two, quickly re-jigging processes and systems to enable entire teams to keep things...
A few of my clients have recently commented that as a result of the pandemic they are thinking about their office space differently. It was also one of the topics I talked about in a vodcast I produced (See it here here. ) One firm owner in one of my groups noted that...
When you do something every day, you become very good at it. Most accountants within small to medium firms don’t deal with resourcing often, so it’s important to consider your process as well as the use of external help to attract and secure the right kind of talent...
