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Bring the Sunshine: The Power of a Positive Attitude
Let’s be honest, work isn’t always smooth sailing. Deadlines loom, inboxes overflow, and meetings multiply. But here’s the secret weapon that can transform even the most mundane Monday: your attitude. A positive attitude isn’t about ignoring challenges or pretending...
YOUR SIGNATURE IS YOU
NOTE: For the next several weeks, these Monday Messages will be brief so you can get a dose of encouragement, support and inspiration as you go through the fall season. Let us know what you think of these short bursts. Your signature is your unique mark: your personal...
Thriving Through Busy Season: Protecting Your Wellbeing
As accountants, many of us are heading into the fall busy season with its intense demands. During this upcoming season, safeguarding your wellbeing isn’t just good advice - it’s a professional strategy. By embracing personal responsibility, positive self-talk, and...
The Analogy of the Potato Sack
The Potato Sack Principle: Avoiding the Professional Trap of Overfilling Your Life In today’s world of endless opportunities, experiences, projects, and distractions, the pressure to do it all is intense. Many professionals fall into the trap of saying “yes” too often...
Elevate Your Team: Mastering Reinforcing and Corrective Feedback
As a leader in your firm, delivering effective feedback is key to fostering growth and maintaining high performance. Striking a balance between reinforcing and corrective feedback ensures your team not only thrives but continuously improves. Reinforcing Feedback:...
We Don’t Hire Placeholders
Raise Them Up: No One Aspires To Average One of the great privileges we have in our coaching practice is engaging directly with the rising generation of professionals — young staff just stepping into their careers. They bring energy, ambition, and a deep desire to...
What Your Staff and Managers Wish You Knew
In our work with staff and managers, we regularly hear candid, revealing sentiments - things they rarely express openly but consistently feel. These insights shape how we approach our training courses and interactions. We intentionally weave in messages they are eager...
Take Control of Your “Someday” Pile
We all have one - a catch-all spot where we stash the small, lingering tasks that we intend to get to “someday.” For some, it's a literal pile: a stack of notes, documents, or folders. For others, it’s a running to-do list or a quiet corner of the mind reserved for...
Overcoming Resistance: The Pain Point That Sparks Firm Change
Change is tough, especially in accounting firms where partners often resist new strategies. As outlined Guy Gage’s recent article, Breaking Through Partner Resistance, transformation occurs when the pain of sticking to the status quo outweighs the fear of change. This...
Igniting the Spark
In February, a senior manager attended our Leading Your Team course. The program explores how managers can better understand and lead their team members by recognizing different working and relational styles. For him, this experience marked a turning point. He walked...
