Bad Habits Aren’t Big You can’t be around professionals for very long until you begin to see some of their bad habits. Often, their tendencies are small and seemingly innocuous. But collectively, those practices add up to a personal negative impact. When asked about...
Plans Go Awry It’s hard to believe we are two and a half months into the new year. By now, all those resolutions you made from good intentions should be pretty much gone by the wayside. But they were good for your health and wellbeing. Why let them go? Rather...
Client Delays Are Everywhere In my earlier days while working in a CPA firm, I observed a repeated occurrence that seems to be common in firms across the nation. It has to do with feeling frustrated by client delays in submitting their information. When clients have...
A Coaching Call Trend We all want to reduce our stress. As we enter the new year, stress abounds like never before. In fact, the last few weeks of coaching calls, I’ve heard of managers and partners planning to reduce their stress by delegating. This is really...
Busy Season This is the season that, for many professionals, begins at a slower pace and quickly escalates to major compression. It’s the reason it’s called busy season. In my coaching calls this January, I heard a lot of anticipating the onslaught of busy season but...
For Their Benefit Or Yours? One of the most difficult aspects of leadership is that leaders, when not paying attention, revert to their ego-centric state. That is, in the normal course of pursuing success, their focus is on themselves—what is and isn’t going the way...