Posts Tagged ‘communication’
8 Coping Strategies Getting Me Through This Pandemic
How are you? I mean, really. How are you doing over there? None of us could have anticipated this pandemic and the abrupt transformation of our lives as a result. And none of us would have pictured it continuing for all of 2020, but that’s exactly what it’s doing. Perhaps most disconcerting is that none…
Read MoreHow 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 MoreAsking for Transparency – What Does That Really Mean?
When facilitating visioning sessions with both current partners and their NextGen leaders, one element consistently emerges as crucial to their becoming a NextGen firm: transparency. Yes, it’s a request of the NextGen leaders, and it is often contrary to Baby Boomers’ and older Gen Xers’ approach of “Just put your head down, don’t ask any questions and…
Read MoreBecoming a Flex-Forward Firm
At ConvergenceCoaching, we’re huge proponents of flexible work programs, or what we like to call Anytime, Anywhere Work™ programs. We’ve been operating in a flexible, virtual environment ourselves for almost 18 years and the strategies we use to keep our team connected and operating efficiently are the same ones we teach to our clients. Philosophically,…
Read MoreCommunicate to Drive Change
“Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.” ~ Reinhold Niebuhr Have you found the meaning of life? If we each had to define our meaning, the meanings we’d interpret would be as diverse as our backgrounds, experiences and beliefs. But no matter what you’re planning and expecting in this life, the one constant you…
Read More4 Surprising Facts About Remote Accountants
You know by now that the remote revolution is upon us. Workers are embracing work-from-home options and flooding to the gig economy in droves. According to a 2017 report, 3.9 million employees currently work from home at least half the time. That’s a 115% increase in remote workers since 2005. But misconceptions about remote work permeate the…
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 MoreYou’re NEVER Too Busy to Give Feedback
“Make feedback normal. Not a performance review.” ~ Ed Batista You’re in the middle of busy season, with multiple engagements in play and the team running in fifteen different directions. Are you giving feedback to the people working on your jobs, in your groups or assigned to you? If not, you’re missing an opportunity to deliver…
Read MoreSpeak Up!
In my leadership development work, I have the privilege of working with high-potential rising stars within firms. In the past few years, we’ve noticed that an increasing number of those participating in our programs come to us with a reticence to speak up. And I don’t mean speak their mind. I mean simply talking more in internal…
Read More6 Things Your Remote Accountant Policy Should Include (But Probably Doesn’t)
In a previous blog, we talked about some legal steps you need to take before bringing on your first remote hire. We outlined a few basic components you should include in your remote accountant policy, but we kept things pretty general. Hopefully by now you have a remote accountant policy firmly in place. But as the landscape…
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