Do This For Loyal Clients

Mar 10, 2014 | Business

Like every professional, you want your clients to love you and never leave you. You see it as a tribute to your professionalism, expertise and service, and rightly so. When clients do leave you, it doesn’t sit well or feel good, regardless of the reason they left....

Your 3 Sources of Power

Mar 3, 2014 | Business

High performers learn how to draw on three sources of power to make their performance remarkable. They know how to access them and how to use them to keep themselves moving. The first is your motivation. It propels you to do and be your best. What gets you up in the...

Entitled, Employed, Engaged or Empowered?

Feb 17, 2014 | Business

All performance begins with your frame of mind. How you see yourself and your work predict your actions and behavior. I’ve identified four perspectives that generally describe how you could see yourself. It doesn’t matter if you’re in your first year or you’re...

How To Be Unremarkable

Feb 2, 2014 | Business

I tried to recall a professional I met who settled for being unremarkable, but no one comes to mind. Don’t get me wrong—I’ve met plenty of people who work in one of the professional disciplines who don’t aspire to be exceptional. They had jobs, not careers; they...

Winning IS Everything

Jan 26, 2014 | Business

I recently attended the Winning Is Everything conference for accounting firms. It was a great meeting with great people. It even has a great title. Because in the end, winning IS everything. But what does “winning” really mean? In sport, winning is clearly defined. At...