Enjoyment, pride and lack of stress can all be the norm in an accountancy firm. But only if your firm becomes less and less reliant on the owner managers.
In this series of blogs you'll find articles that focus on the 3 critical currencies you need to feel that your firm can run (more and more) without you.
You'll read how to build the health of your firm in a way that underpins a way to generate the currency of time, money and ultimately your peace of mind to live your life in the way that you want. Sounds ambitious for a few articles I know! But have a look...
...you'll find insights, recommendations and resources that will help you on your way to having a firm that runs without you, or the way you want it to run:
It’s so easy to let the many varied day-to-day jobs of running your firm dominate your working life. Especially now when we are all dealing with so much uncertainty… But only when you take positive daily action on the jobs that will guarantee the future of your firm will you gain the success you seek. Take small daily
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Initiative [definition] – the power and ability to follow a task through energetically and show enterprise and determination in performing the task. Good stuff, don’t you think?‘power and ability’‘follow through energetically’‘enterprise and determination’Would your accountancy firm be more successful, more profitable and more exciting to work in if these three things showed up in more of
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Real life business success shows the power of small daily steps. The power of consistent daily action to create momentum towards your ultimate goal. In his book ‘Good to Great’ Jim Collins’ research study showed how 11 great businesses exceeded market growth by more than 3 times the norm (one attained 18 x market growth). All 11
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Wouldn’t it be great if you could get more out of your team? In fact, you probably know you should be getting more from them. You also know that some of them, when teamwork is involved, work much harder than others – but how to bring consistency across your team? To get the best from them, your people
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Delegation – something that nearly every partner or manager talks about doing, but rarely does well. How many times have you said to yourself or one of your team ‘I need to delegate this task’ or ‘I shouldn’t be doing this really, someone else should’? Yet, you end up doing it – every single time. Why? Because there is
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It’s not uncommon to be frustrated by the performance of people within your team. It’s OK to grind your teeth about how much more of a burden this puts on you, the leader or manager. Here’s what’s possible… There’s one sole-practitioner accountancy firm I work with who have taken the ‘social loafing’ message (see below) whole-heartedly and
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