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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...