Posts Tagged ‘Fun’
Hands-Off Leadership Development Heralded by CPA Firm Leaders
You’re busy. Everyone is. You also need a pipeline of future leaders to continue to run the profitable accounting firm you’ve created and provide you, hopefully, with a generous internal buyout. You’ve been hearing that you need to actively develop your team to be successful, but who has time for that? After all, you learned how to be a consummate professional the hard way. Why not pass that experience on to the next generation?
Read MoreRosenberg & Rampe Reveal Magic Formula for Partner Compensation
Partner compensation is a challenge for many accounting firm leadership teams. The desire to balance rewarding performance, book of business, billable hours, and plain old seniority leads to conflict. Feelings of confusion arise when partners who are total jerks continue to out-earn their peers who have 20% higher realization and manage staff as if they’d been personally mentored by Adam Grant.
I’ve been fortunate enough to work closely with Marc Rosenberg for the past several years on partner compensation projects. Combining our…
Read MorePoetic Project Management
Can project management be poetic? We’re not sure either, but here’s an attempt. Please enjoy this collection of project management verses with our compliments.
Read More16 Delegation Failures
We’ve all been there. Trying to make our work-lives more efficient, transfer knowledge to newer team members and leverage our practice. Sometimes it works, and, well, sometimes the result is embarrassing at best. If you’ve ever wondered if you’re a delegation master, or one who could use a few tweaks to make the most of your efforts, you are in the right place. Below are a few ways to recognize when you might not have done the very best job ever in delegating your work.
Read MoreReclaiming Our Fun
After my webinar on Building a High-Functioning team, I received a whole lot of feedback from participants saying thank-you for the reminder to have fun.
This really caught me off guard. How in the world did we end up so focused on our goals (also a part of building a great team) that we completely let go of the fun part?
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