Posts by Angie Grissom
How to Increase Productivity While at Home
Being productive at work sounds simple – just do the best you can every day. Unfortunately, due to the never-ending demands that are placed upon us and by us, it is much more complicated than it sounds. Now, with our normal routines changing due to COVID-19 and Shelter in Place orders, it is becoming even…
Read MoreAvoiding Failure to Launch: How to Successfully Implement Change at Your Firm
Feel the Pain The first step to successfully launching a game-changing initiative is to truly feel the pain. The pain of staying the same must begin to outweigh the pain of change, or you may end up with a lack of motivation for change. Change is difficult; it requires effort and the ability to work…
Read MoreCheck Your Bedside Manner to Gain More Client Trust
We have all been to a doctor who had an impeccable bedside manner and we tend to remember it for a while. Bedside manner is the way a doctor interacts and communicates with us, their patient, and it is most memorable when we have an ailment that is either extremely concerning, painful, embarrassing or all…
Read MoreCreating Powerful Game Changing Habits
Many accounting professionals realize that in order to be successful in their careers and to help build their firms, certain initiatives must be achieved. A good mix of leading the firm, nurturing and serving clients and building business is the key to the long-term success of the organization. The truth is, successful people have adopted…
Read MoreConsistency in Creating a Growth Culture
Accounting firm leadership continues to struggle with effective succession planning execution. There are many reasons for this, but the top two may be: (1) the number of retiring partners is far greater than the number of managers who are ready to assume a partnership role, and (2) many firms have not incorporated a growth culture…
Read MoreEffective Recovery for Your Team After Opportunity Season
Tax season. Opportunity season. Whatever you call it, one of the downsides is the potential for team member burnout before, during, or after the April 17 deadline. The corporate and individual tax deadlines are brutal in a normal year, but when coupled with the recent tax law changes and all the uncertainty surrounding them, you’d…
Read MoreKeeping Your Team Members Engaged and Energized
A survey conducted by the AICPA showed one of the biggest concerns firms are facing today is employee retention and engagement. This is no surprise and is endemic throughout the entire profession. In recent years, the rate at which team members are leaving their current employment or seeking further opportunities is accelerating. Many of the…
Read MoreConsidering the Right Questions to Prepare Your Firm for Its Future
If you are like many of the firms out there, you are working like crazy to get your work out the door by tax deadlines throughout the year and you barely have time to read this because you and your team are covered in returns. That’s your current reality today, right?! Last year, one of…
Read MoreRefresh and Repeat
It’s a new day. I love the optimism associated with that. Just like the document where I have begun typing, it is blank, clean, bright and full of optimism and potential. Only we rarely approach each day with this type of optimism. We reserve it for New Year’s Day, new jobs, new beginnings. We almost…
Read MoreCyberbullying. Social Bullying. Peer Pressure Bullying.
Cyberbullying. Social Bullying. Peer Pressure Bullying. The topic of youth bullying has gained a lot of attention over the past several years. You have probably read the stories and watched the videos of organizations working to end this epidemic that has been plaguing our school systems. You have probably talked to your children about bullying-…
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