Your Job Candidate Looks Good On Paper: Now What? You may have heard the phrase “Most managers hire for skills, but fire for character.” This post is dedicated to helping you balance out your hiring process. You can learn a lot by reviewing a candidate’s resume, but it will never give you one of the ...
May
16th
2012
People Management 101 I’ve written on a few occasions regarding people management because I feel strongly that a supervisor’s approach to their staff relationships makes all the difference in their employees’ job satisfaction, career progression, and ultimately with the amount of turnover the firm experiences. The cost to replace an employee is 1.5 to 2 ...
May
9th
2012
Mother’s Day Occasionally we will welcome guest authors who have relevant and inspiring ideas to share. This week we are proud to bring you a post written by Patrick Spear, husband of our Sales and Marketing coordinator Lisa Spear. Patrick has over two decades of sales and marketing experience in the consumer packaged goods industry, ...
May
1st
2012
What Business Are You Really In? In the CPA profession, there is so much to do all the time. The pace never seems to slow down and it can be overwhelming. Even in the “slower” post-busy season period, with the intensity of the April 17th filing deadline behind us, there are still many things to ...
Apr
25th
2012
Who Needs A Little Post-Busy Season Renewal, Again? “One of the things we desperately need is a spiritual renewal in this country. We need a spiritual revival in America.” -Billy Graham With the spring tax filing season successfully behind us, we each have an opportunity to start fresh and focus our energies on renewing our ...
Apr
18th
2012
Too Much of a Good Thing! On January 1st, I set goals for myself with three different projects. Subsequently, each project has created even more work than I had anticipated. In my excitement over the response, I tried to complete them all at the same time, which resulted in my feeling overworked, neglecting elements of ...
Apr
11th
2012
Why Didn’t You Tell Me? When my clients share their relationship challenges with me, I often find myself saying, “If I was that other person that you are challenged with, I would want to know this!” The people you have relationship issues want to know: - That they made the same mistake on virtually every ...
Apr
4th
2012
Occasionally we will welcome guest authors who have relevant and inspiring ideas to share. This week we are proud to bring you a post written by Amy Denman. Amy has worked with ConvergenceCoaching for 4 years as our Special Projects Consultant, primarily focused on our IT/Computing platforms. Overcoming Stress With The Power of Friendship As ...
Mar
28th
2012
Stop Dishing Dirt! Back room conversations, water cooler chatter, gossip. They all refer to the same negative behavior we’ve all experienced and have probably taken part in at one point or another. This behavior is called triangulation: when you go to someone other than the person you have a conflict with to complain about the ...
Mar
20th
2012
Are You Really Impressing Anyone? You have a wealth of knowledge, experience, and insight. If you share these things in a positive manner, your clients will be more loyal, prospective clients will be more likely to do business with you, and your colleagues and co-workers will respect you and enjoy working with and learning from ...
Mar
14th
2012
Four Simple, Yet Challenging Steps To Personal Growth I am so fortunate to spend my days developing transformational leadership in others. Doing so is a privilege and it causes me to face the many things that I can improve in my own leadership along the way. Often, my work requires that I discuss difficult performance ...
Mar
7th
2012
Working Hard, Hardly Working, Or Both? Most of us live in a “feast or famine” cycle that continually alternates between two equally troubling positions. Either we’re overwhelmed with how we’re going to get all the work we have done, or we’re anxious about whether and when our next work will come. Actually, many of us ...
Feb
29th
2012
In recent coaching calls with some of my clients who are pioneering optional Saturdays this busy season, we’ve bumped up against many reasons firm leaders are struggling. In our conversations, firm leaders remain steadfast to make the changes to shift their firm from “old-school” to “cool” – and non-mandatory Saturdays is one of these shifts ...
Feb
22nd
2012
On January 11th, I wrote about how we can move from having a dream about your future to change it to a vision instead (Empower Your Vision). Moving a dream to a vision requires taking actionable steps to produce specific results. This week, I will use information from that blog and an example from my ...
Feb
15th
2012
ARE YOU A DISTRACTED DRIVER? As our society continues to get increasingly busy, it seems we are also getting more and more distracted. We are all multi-tasking to try and complete everything we have to get done on a daily basis, and the rush of it all has become detrimental to our well being. Unfortunately, ...
Feb
8th
2012
Loosen Up, People! There are certain times in the year when the pressure can seem overwhelming. For our CPA clients and friends, that time starts now – and lasts through April 15 (and sometimes longer). For others, there may be quarterly or year-end deadlines or even weekly hurdles that provide extra pressure. When people tell ...
Feb
1st
2012
Don’t Wait Until After Tax Season! Last week a friend of mine asked me how my book was coming along because I had previously shared with him that one of my goals for the year was to write one. I started by explaining that I hadn’t made much progress because I have been busy trying ...
Jan
24th
2012
To Tweet Or Not To Tweet: What’s The Question? Twitter (www.twitter.com) has a bad rap. Most of us think of it as a platform that celebrities use to share meaningless information about their most recent meal or to promote their latest product. But the application has unbelievable power and reach – all at your fingertips ...
Jan
18th
2012
Empower Your Vision For 2012 With the New Year, many of us are making plans for our work projects for the next twelve months. In my work, I hear many DREAMS about how things could be that are not attached to action plans. I think of the dream as a product of the unconscious mind ...
Jan
11th
2012
What Will You Keep, Stop and Start In 2012? When I called my mom to wish her a Happy New Years on January 1st, she asked what my New Year’s resolutions were. I told her I hadn’t set any yet – not even the old standbys. I’ve been thinking about a question that my partner, ...
Jan
4th
2012
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